I’m not sure who it was, but we should all heed the words of the wise man who said, “Don’t be so openminded that your brains fall out.” I think that pretty much sums up the whole bruhaha about the mosque they’re proposing to build right there at Ground Zero, don’t you?
Pretty much anyone with any common sense whatsoever knows, that you don’t allow a religion to build something called a “Victory Mosque” 15 stories high right next to the site where a bunch of their fellow worshippers killed 3,000 innocent people who were just minding their own business. “In the name of Allah,” of course. The people of New York–and all of you people who voted for the Obummer–need to ask yourselves why you elect representatives who refuse to represent the interests of our country instead of all the other ones.
Don’t preach to me about tolerance. When people who profess to be Islamic start showing some tolerance for everybody else in the world instead of murdering groups of Christian doctors who were just trying to help poor people who needed medical attention, then I’ll think about some darned tolerance for their faith. When they stop stoning young mothers to death, excecuting gay men and encouraging fathers to murder their teenaged daughters for going on dates, I’ll think about tolerance. When they stop funding “charities” that spend more money on rockets to kill Israeli school kids than they do on food for the hungry, then I’ll think about tolerance.
Every other church or religion I’ve ever heard of welcomes visitors and people from other faiths to come share their services…except Islam. Most mosques are muslims-only. They want to build a religous building into which most people are not allowed to enter because of their faith….in the name of “tolerance” and “building dialogue.” Yeah, sure. That makes sense.
To see how wrong that is, just substitute “skin color” for faith in that last sentence. What if a bunch of former KKK members wanted to build a members-only “Victory Chapel” a block from the site in Memphis where MLK was assasinated? You know, in order to “build a dialogue” with the community? Yeah, we all know what would happen…they’d be kicked out on their lily-white behinds faster than you can say “neonazi.” Because that would be hateful and wrong. And yet….our President says he’s totally behind this Saudi-funded ex-waiter building a mosque at Ground Zero. On our most raw, recent, and unhealed “hallowed ground.” And they call the 70% of the American people who feel this to be an intolerable violation “intolerant” or “racist.”
I’m sure that if a muslim family decided to show up at your church on Sunday morning, everybody would do the best they could to make them feel welcome. You’d invite them to dinner on the grounds and to come back next Sunday. Certainly there woudn’t be a bouncer at the door, kicking out non-Baptists, or Methodists, non LDS or whatever. THAT generosity and politeness is what tolerance looks like. Not that muslim visitors would be allowed to come at all.
I got sidetracked researching this column and stumbled across something called islamopaediaonline.com that explains the various tenets of the muslim faith to muslims. Non-muslims aren’t allowed in most mosques, but Islam doesn’t allow muslims to visit other faiths, either. The guide says: “… it would be Makruh Tahrimi (prohibitively disliked) to enter or even pray in a church, Synagogue, Hindu temple etc, being a place where gross Shirk (sins of polytheism) is committed. Also, according to explicit prophetic Hadiths , such places are the gathering places of devils.” Now THAT’s tolerance for you.
The Fox News Redeye host who joked that he was going to open an Islamic gay bar next to the proposed mosque may have been on to something. Maybe he really will open “Suspicious Packages,” or “You Mecca Me Hot” one day with his 72 virgin alcohol-free drinks, and then we’ll see just how tolerant those mosque-builders can be. Is tolerance a two-way street? Or is it just a club to be used against the stupid, gullible infidel in the pursuit of holy jihad?
I’m all for treating everybody the same, and freedom of religion. I’m all for people of other faiths building chapels or synagogues or temples or mosques where ever they want. I don’t really care what they believe, but I do care how they act. I’m not for allowing a bunch of Saudi-funded frontmen to use our freedom of worship, and our tolerance against us and gut-punch the country by building an Islamic center at the site of Islam’s Greatest Hit. There’s a big difference between tolerance and putting your tail between your legs, rolling over and baring your throat like a stray hound. We seem to be assuming that position an awful lot as a nation lately, and I for one, am fundamentally tired of it.
