Mosque versus Hotel at Ground Zero

Recently, the defenders of those who protect from our unknowing racism have sought to justify the building of a mosque, Cordoba House, adjacent to the site of Ground Zero in New York. The civil libertarians believe that the spot, where terrorists of the Muslim persuasion created carnage of thousands of innocents is an appropriate spot to build a mosque, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is being racist. Some have even sought to justify the mosque because a hotel has been built nearby, The World Center Hotel, and if commerce can come into the area then so can a mosque.

Their argument falls apart because World Center Hotel did not kill nearly 3,000 people on 9/11 and is not part of a homicidal chain that wants us to understand the murderers’ grievances. The World Center Hotel is not planning other terror attacks, nor keeping quiet as other “militant” hotel chains plan attacks, nor does it provide funding for terrorism through “humanitarian” soap collections, and nor does it justify terror whether by reference to the root causes of not having enough bath towels or to the holy Manual of Hotel Management.

As for Cordoba House’s aims being innocent and moderate da’wa, it is to be noted that Islamic practice is to build on conquered holy or historic places of other cultures. The building of the original Cordoba mosque was on the site of a church to commemorate the Muslim conquest of Spain. This is the message that the Islamic world will understand by building of this structure in its proposed location.

Intrepid reporters have confirmed to us that the sources of funding for the project are all from parties with multi-cultural and religious courtesy at the forefront of their donations, even though the project organizers themselves cannot, or will not, divulge the funders. And even though the putative imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, thinks that the USA is an accessory to the crimes committed on 9/11 and that Hamas is not a terrrorist group. Hint: read the Hamas charter and its quoting of the forged Protocol of the Elders of Zion as fact, and that there is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad.

Perhaps in a display of mutual respect, now would be a good time for the Wahhabists of Saudi Arabia to allow a synagogue to be built in Yathrib (formerly Medina). It is the city which gave refuge to Mohammed and his followers before they slaughtered the Jewish adult males by decapitation, shared out some women amongst themselves and sold the remaining women and children into slavery. Nice way to show thanks for hospitality. New York has already enjoyed similar "hospitality" and by encouraging the Cordoba House to go ahead, it is to be hoped that they will not suffer such hospitality in the future.