This story was first brought to my attention several days ago by a post, published to my wall by one of my friends on Facebook. Before going any further with this story, I'll explain what I mean by my wall. For those of my readers that don't know what Facebook is its a social networking site and your wall is a place where your friends or online associates can ask you questions, post comments to questions you've asked other members and comment on photos you've posted and so on and so forth. If you don’t have a Facebook account we suggest you open one it's a good way to stay in touch with loved ones and make new friends with like views and interests. Now back to the story.
Her post was in the form of a question, she asked, what do you think about the Islamic community in the United States wanting to build a Mosque at ground zero of the 9-11-2001 attack on the United States perpetrated by Osama Benladin and his army of Islamic Extremest Terrorists. At first I thought she was joking and just trying to provoke me into writing yet another article for my blog blasting Osama and his army of terrorists.
So before posting a response to her question I did a quick search of the internet and was astonished to find that she wasn't joking they really do want to build a Islamic Mosque at ground zero of the most atrocious act of terrorism ever committed against US Citizens in the 234 year history of this country
My first response was their kidding right, but unfortunately their not. But what I find even more appalling is there are members of our government that endorse the plan to build the proposed Mosque. After finding out that the story was true a couple of very important questions rapidly filled my mind and I'm sure the minds of any socially conscience citizens of this country.
I'm not necessarily recanting the questions in the order that they came to mind, but in the order that I feel is most important to my readers and other citizens of this country, that voted for our current President because he has openly endorsed the proposed Mosque, which doesn't really surprise me to be completely honest but for now lets get back to the questions. Have they the Islamic community in the United States and our elected officials forgotten that on September, 11th 2001 3,479 innocent citizens of this of this country lost their lives in this horrific act of terrorism committed by members of their religion? Before going any further I would like to clarify that last statement I wasn't implying that all members of the Islamic faith are terrorists but the plain and simple truth is we really don't know which ones are or aren't so in my mind it's much better to be safe then sorry and take a chance on loosing any more innocent American citizens to terrorist acts.
Furthermore have members of the Islamic community in this country and the members of our government who endorse this project considered the effect that the proposed Mosque would have on the survivors or the families that that lost loved ones in this extremely tragic attack against our country? In my opinion they haven't or they wouldn't have proposed building an Islamic Mosque on or near the site of such a tragic event. Putting aside religious, views has our government become so liberal that they have lost touch with the fact that it's their sworn duty to do their best to protect the citizens of this country from attacks like the one that happened 9-11-2001? I could be wrong but I for one believe so.
I'm not necessarily recanting the questions in the order that they came to mind, but in the order that I feel is most important to my readers and other citizens of this country, that voted for our current President because he has openly endorsed the proposed Mosque, which doesn't really surprise me to be completely honest but for now lets get back to the questions. Have they the Islamic community in the United States and our elected officials forgotten that on September, 11th 2001 3,479 innocent citizens of this of this country lost their lives in this horrific act of terrorism committed by members of their religion? Before going any further I would like to clarify that last statement I wasn't implying that all members of the Islamic faith are terrorists but the plain and simple truth is we really don't know which ones are or aren't so in my mind it's much better to be safe then sorry and take a chance on loosing any more innocent American citizens to terrorist acts.
Furthermore have members of the Islamic community in this country and the members of our government who endorse this project considered the effect that the proposed Mosque would have on the survivors or the families that that lost loved ones in this extremely tragic attack against our country? In my opinion they haven't or they wouldn't have proposed building an Islamic Mosque on or near the site of such a tragic event. Putting aside religious, views has our government become so liberal that they have lost touch with the fact that it's their sworn duty to do their best to protect the citizens of this country from attacks like the one that happened 9-11-2001? I could be wrong but I for one believe so.
One of the most wonderful reasons to be a citizen of the United States of America is the freedoms afforded us by the Constitution of the United States of America, we enjoy many freedoms that citizens of other countries don't have like freedom of speech and religion. However, there are no provisions in the US Constitution that provide these same freedoms to UN-naturalized citizens and residents aliens.
Because the founding fathers of this country based our Constitution on fundamental Christian beliefs and values we as a nation have allowed people from other countries to erect their houses of worship on our country's soil as a gesture of good will towards them and their beliefs. It is not their right to do so and as such can be taken away at any time. In my opinion we haven't taken away their ability to do so because, at the core of our country's Christian values system is a strong belief that we as a people should show good will towards all mankind no matter what they believe.
However, when as a Nation do we have to put our value system aside and say enough is enough? I truly believe the time to do so is now, before another attack is made against us, and more innocent Americans loose their lives unnecessarily.
I mentioned core values, because at the core of the Islamic belief system we as citizens of a western civilization are viewed as infidels and are to be dealt with as such. The word jehad means Holly war and has been used many times by members of the Islamic faith in the middle east to describe the conflict between the United States of America and the Nations of Islam, I don't claim to be an expert on the Islamic faith but I do know 100% for sure that the individuals that perpetrated the 9-11-2001 attack against the United States believed with all their hearts and minds, that they were committing an act that would earn them great rewards in heaven.
How can we as a Nation trust or defend ourselves against these types of beliefs? The truth of the matter is we can't. So are the members of our government that are endorsing this project trying to appease the terrorists in an attempt ward off any further attacks? If so it will more then likely be perceived by them as weakness on our part and provoke another attack even sooner. Because in my opinion we have no idea how many of these terrorists are still in this country just waiting to attack us again as soon as they manage to get all of the pieces in place.
The United States was in a very similar situation during World War II only at that time the threat to this country wasn't coming from the middle east it was from Japan. They to had they audacity to attack our country with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The response by our government was swift and it wasn't wasn't to publicly endorse the building of a house of worship for the Japanese immigrants living in the United States, oh no they acted on their sworn duty to protect the citizens of this great country and rounded up every Japanese immigrant in this country and put them in camps where they could be monitored until they were no longer a threat to this country.
I realize that things are a lot different now then they were then and I don't advocate the imprisonment of innocent people. However, it is still our governments responsibility to keep us as citizens of this country safe from terrorists not to pander to them and allow their fellow country men to build a house of worship on the ground where they committed such an atrocious act of terrorism as the one committed against the citizens of this country on 9-11-2001.
In my heart and mind and I'm sure in the hearts and minds of many other citizens of this country the only thing that should be built on that hollowed ground is a memorial dedicated to the 3,479 innocent people who lost their lives because of Osama Benladin and his army of terrorists.
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