Beacon (Update: What Bill Whittle Said)

Pretty much all who follow the news regularly—and many who don’t—know about the controversy surrounding the proposed construction of a Mosque near the site of what used to be the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.

The backers of this project and many others –including the mayor of New York--have cast the intent as a “freedom of religion” issue.

The opponents of the project—which are many—cast it mostly in emotional terms; I’m with them, but those terms, by their very nature, allow themselves to be argued down.

However, there is one reason to be against it—one which sets itself above all the others, one which is existential and practical rather than emotional. 

A “Victory Mosque” set in the shadow of Ground Zero will be just that: a symbol of victory for the Islamists at the site of one of the greatest body counts in the name of Allah.  And the existence of such symbols will invite more attempts at military conquest from the Soldiers of Allah.

Go on about the First Amendment and about misinterpretations of the phrase ‘hallowed ground.’  Keep pretending that blocking the construction of this particular mosque is somehow preventing New York Muslims from freely exercising their religion—as if permission to build a church or a synagogue anywhere in NYC would automatically be granted.  But know this: our enemies will take our notions of “fairness” and explode it in our faces; not just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but right here on the Hallowed Ground which stretches from sea to shining sea.

By the way, if we infidels aren’t quickly jumping to convert to Islam, to die or to become dhimmis, are we violating the First Amendment?  Just wondering.  Because that would be the full flowering of the free exercise of Islam.

Lots of First Amendment violations in that, don’t you think?

UPDATE: Confirmation.

The Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC) is urging the Cordoba House Initiative to abandon its proposed Ground-Zero Mosque in New York in the face of outrage expressed by large segments of the American population calling the proposal an act of 'fitna' or mischief.

In a letter to Imam Faisal Rauf that will be delivered on Tuesday, August 10 by MCC’s board member Raheel Raza, the MCC says, “Many Muslims suspect that the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation, to thumb our noses at the 'infidel.' We believe the proposal has been made in bad faith and, in Islamic parlance, is creating  'fitna,' meaning 'mischief-making,' an act clearly forbidden in the Qur’an.”

(Thanks to The Anchoress)

UPDATE:

(Thanks to Instapundit)

Comments

[ErikZ]

And the existence of such symbols will invite more attempts at military conquest from the Soldiers of Allah.

Well, that's great actually. We can handle military issues easily. It's creeping in though social issues we can't handle.

So, freedom of religion AND inevitable physical conflict. Sounds good to me.

[Frederick Douglass88]

Veteran?

I must question your opinion bald lady. You were in the milatary, which is full of racist white Americans, and you think this is a security risk. Hmmmm. This sur is, just like all churches. Cause Eric Rudolf was christians. OMG!!! America is full of them. Please explain this as well. What about the OCB? That guy was christian too. What about the gentleman that flew the plane into the federal building? Was he too christian? I'm not sure you should join religeon and politics, which is where this is headed. There's always an example of extremisism in all religeons. It's funny that white ppl get a pass to be Christian extremist.

Spoken from a Christian who's not afraid of the TRUTH. You my dear may need to speak about facts instead of the typical Repub/neocon/capitalist spew.

Peace(nice cut)

[baldilocks]

You , apparently, are new here, my dear.

Prove that something I've said is false rather than hurling assertions laced with condescension at my wall and seeing what sticks. Then we may be having an actual conversation.