Muslims worshipping on NYC streets doesn't threaten Christians or U.S.

A friend of mine forwarded an email up in arms because Muslim adherents have been worshipping in the streets outside three NYC mosques because there was no room for them inside. I'm responding to that email:

"A Christian Nation"

This isn't a Christian Nation. This is a nation that includes a lot of Christians, but the nation is secular -- the First Amendment guarantees it!

"cannot put up a Christmas scene of the baby Jesus in a public place,"

but such a scene can be any place somebody wants it, and the owner of the property okays it, providing it is not a government-owned place.

"but the Muslims can stop normal traffic every Friday afternoon by worshiping in the streets... "

This would be wrong whether it is done by Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, Buddhists, etc. The police should clear the sidewalks and the streets. It's not safe, and it's interfering with others just trying to get somewhere. Please notice that the reason that the police haven't done this to non-Muslims is that these religions don't have as many adherents! 

"Something is happening in America that is reminiscent of what is happening in Europe. This is Political Correctness gone crazy.  "

And what is "happening" in Europe? Way too vague! 

"With regard to that one [the proposed mosque near Ground Zero], the "Imam" refuses to disclose where the $110 million dollars to build it is coming from and there is a lawsuit filed to force disclosure of that information."

Why should that info be revealed? Does the Catholic or Episcopal churches reveal such? Yes, it's possible that some nefarious radical group is funding it, but why? They use the money they get for weapons, IUDs, etc.! Unless you think that, once the mosque is built, they'll tunnel from it to Ground Zero -- and do what?

"Is there a message here????  Yes, there is, and they are claiming America for Allah.  If we don't wake up soon, we are going to "politically correct" ourselves right out of our own country!"

Let me get this straight. It's okay for Christians to "claim" America for God, but it's not all right for other religions to do so for their god? Even though the First Amendment guarantees freedom of and from religion?

What is really going on with the Moslems planning a mosque near Ground Zero?

A friend just forwarded the link to a YouTube video about Moslems in relation to the plan to have a thirteen-story mosque built near Ground Zero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxFzFIDbKpg

This does give you pause for thought!

We need to realize, though, that the vast majority of Moslems are law-abiding and truly friends with Americans who aren't Moslems. However, clearly, quite a few do pay attention to the Q'uran's pronouncements. Given the historical references to how the centers of power of those the Moslems conquered were built on (which I hadn't realized before), it would not be wise to have the Moslems build on Ground Zero. How far away is okay, I'm not sure. It could be said that it wouldn't be good to let them build anywhere in the business district of NYC, since NYC is the center of American economic power. They may not have in mind to build on our power base, but it sure doesn't seem that they are doing it to honor the victims of 9/11, does it?

Few Moslem leaders, in the U.S. or in other countries, condemned the 9/11 attacks -- or, at least said so such that the American press publicized such comments.

However, we must also recall that Christians have been less than "Christian" in their dealings with the Moslems. You will recall the Crusades, and thereafter? The religion that supposedly follows Jesus, who said "Turn the other cheek"? And yet the crusaders killed and raped hundreds of thousands of Moslems, burned and pillaged their villages, and partitioned the conquered territory into lands run by Western opportunists. That's why Iraq is in the shape it's in -- it wasn't partitioned according to the tribes and peoples who lived in an area, but combined many tribes who weren't at peace with each other into unstable "countries" set up for maximizing the wealth of the Western countries and governors.





Perhaps the best course of action is to be alert, and wary. As President Ronald Reagan said, "Trust but verify." Also, to do everything we can to keep American youth (Moslem and non-Moslem) from becoming disaffected. And to persuade the Arabic countries to change the education system so that young people of both genders get real educations that will lead to good jobs, versus the current system in which boys are only taught to memorize the Q'uran.

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