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New York City, Sunday, June 6, 2010, – by El Marco


Stop the Mosque at Ground Zero Rally – Part I
www.lookingattheleft.com/2010/06/stop-t ... o-rally-2/






Ground Zero mosque protest draws thousands

New York City, Sunday, June 6, 2010, – by El Marco

Pamela Geller, the co-founder of Stop Islamization of America, speaks passionately about jihad, sharia, and why the idea of a mosque in this spot is so wrong.

The crowd gathers. Tower 7 is the tall building in the background.

Simon Deng, who was enslaved as a child by Arabs in his native land, Sudan, speaks. Slavery, genocide, terr0rism and sharia must not be tolerated. Many Americans, including Mayor Bloomberg, don’t understand enough about what Islamic countries are like. Even in the more moderate moslem countries, like Egypt, churches are burned and there is no tolerance of other religions. Former Moslem Noni Darwish, who grew up in Gaza and Egypt, also addressed the rally. She said “We are threatened right here in America by mosques that are issuing fatwas against us…I understand the symbolism of a mosque…they’ve been built historically on the sites of Jewish temples, churches, Hindu temples — it’s a sign of being conquered. After they conquer a country, every church, every temple, must be converted to a mosque. You know the people who come here and ask for sensitivity training: where are the churches in Saudi Arabia? Even in Egypt, the churches have been burned…Do we need an area of pilgrimage for muslims in New York? Our 3,000 fellow Americans who were killed on 9/11 are looking down on us, and they are saying we don’t want to hear “Allah hu Akbar” any more.”

There are moslems who understand that the location for the mosque is a bad idea too. In aneditorial in today’s Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby writes:

“Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, a devout Muslim and director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism in Washington, notes that the spiritual leader of the Cordoba Initiative, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, describes himself as a Sufi — a Muslim focused on Islamic mysticism and spiritual wisdom. But “building a 15-story Islamic center at ground zero isn’t something a Sufi would do,’’ according to Schwartz, also a practitioner of Sufism. “Sufism is supposed to be based on sensitivity toward others,’’ yet Cordoba House comes across as “grossly insensitive.’’ He rejects Rauf’s stance that a highly visible Muslim presence at ground zero is the way to make a statement opposing what happened on 9/11. Better, in his view, is the approach of many Muslims “who hate terrorism and who have gone privately to the site and recited prayers for the dead silently and unperceived by others.’’

Robert Spencer of Jihadwatch. From his report:

“By the time the rally was in full swing, the crowd filled the pens, the park, and the other side of the street. Police estimated that 5,000 people were there, and other estimates ranged as high as 10,000. The crowd carried signs expressing their love for freedom, their contempt for Sharia, and their anger at Islamic supremacism and insult to the memories of those murdered on 9/11 that this mosque represents.

And we had a full spectrum of top quality speakers. There were 9/11 family members, including C. Lee Hanson, who lost his son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter on 9/11. There were people who experienced the oppression of Sharia firsthand, such as the Egyptian ex-Muslim Nonie Darwish, the Sudanese ex-slave Simon Deng, and the Hindu human rights activist Babu Suseelan. There was Dennis McKenna, who worked recovering remains from the ruins of the World Trade Center; Alan T. DeVona, the patrol sergeant on duty on September 11, 2001; and Keith LeBow, an ironworker who was one of the first responders on the scene on September 11. There was Herb London of the Hudson Institute and Beverly Carlson of the Band of Mothers — and a host of other speakers, all lovers of America and lovers of freedom.

The theme among all the speakers was common: the mosque is an insult to the Americans who were murdered there. It is a manifestation of a radically intolerant belief system that is incompatible with the freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. And even with all the political elites against us, and the mainstream media indifferent or compromised (5,000 to 10,000 people at the rally, and no mainstream media coverage!), we will prevail. All we have on our side is the truth.”

Dan Maloney of Gathering of Eagles, a veterans’ group whose motto is “fighting the insurgency at home”. Our men and women who are deployed in the middle east and elsewhere are putting their lives on the line, but so are those who are speaking out against radical Islam here at home.

The brave organizer, Pamela Geller. See her amazing blog, Atlas Shrugs. There are videos, interviews, and text about the Ground Zero mosque, about honor killings, sharia, and much more. Add it to your daily reading list if you want to understand Islam and the middle east.
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Shady,

I’m not a mod, so this is only my opinion, but I find your anti-Muslim posts above deeply offensive, insulting and entirely contrary to the spirit of The Golden Rule here.

The same – or similar – catalogue of horrors might be said of virtually any religious movement throughout history. This does not – and should not – be license to disrespect the good faith or honest intentions of the vast majority of ordinary believers. To insult Islam so egregiously is to insult all religions – an ugly and contentious practice which I thought we chose to avoid here.

It is besides utterly beneath you, my dear friend.

In peace,

Selene

“....Where does it stop? How long will the West be "apologetic" towards Muslims?? Until they’re stoning you in streets of London, Amsterdam? Berlin…”

This is a war for our VERY survival as civilization here in the West. And we better start waking up to that realization. THEY MEAN BUSINESS and that is bring down Western Style Democracy and replace it with Muslim Religious Law.

Shady,

I’m not a mod, so this is only my opinion, but I find your anti-Muslim posts above deeply offensive, insulting and entirely contrary to the spirit of The Golden Rule here.

The same – or similar – catalogue of horrors might be said of virtually any religious movement throughout history. This does not – and should not – be license to disrespect the good faith or honest intentions of the vast majority of ordinary believers. To insult Islam so egregiously is to insult all religions – an ugly and contentious practice which I thought we chose to avoid here.

It is besides utterly beneath you, my dear friend.

In peace,

Selene

AH yes and then you have the whinny bleeding hearted Liberals and Socialists (that mind you have never left their Poetry/Coffee Houses) screaming against Iseral for defending herself. Screaming that poor Jews that their baby killers and all that BS..

Ideas such as those should not be lawfully imposed. But I prefer to consider what people actually believe, and I think many don't believes ideas such as these .

Some do, sadly, but I think they're a minority.

That's all I'm going to say.