Cordoba House

Islamists hope to build a thirteen-story mosque 600 feet from Ground Zero.  It would be named 'Cordoba House' after the Great Mosque of Cordoba, which was built to commemorate the Muslim conquest of Spain.  Islamists historically build mosques at conquered sites, and the symbolism of a mosque that close to the WTC attack is well understood by Muslims.

Despite the raw nerve exposed by the proposal, officials and commentators are falling over each other to promote it and congratulate themselves on their self-righteous tolerance.

Tolerance seems to be a one way street.  Saudia Arabia built the largest mosque in Europe near the Vatican but won't allow any church within its borders, even though 800,000 Christians live there.  They also forbid celebrating non-Muslim holidays and wearing crosses.

Egyptian mobs assault Christians with impunity, sometimes after being whipped up by an imam exhorting them to cleanse the city of infidels.  The police invariably show up afterward and coerce the wounded into accepting a "reconciliation" that precludes prosecution of the attackers.

According to Moheb Zaki in The Wall Street Journal, Al-Azhar is "the world's preeminent Sunni Islamic Institution."  It teaches that "Christianity (is) a pagan religion;" "killing a Muslim is punishable by death, but if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim he is not subject to capital punishment since the superior cannot be punished for killing the inferior;" and "the compensation for manslaughter for a woman is half that for a man, but for a Christian or a Jew it is one-third of a Muslim."

Some Muslims also suffer from intolerance.  A Saudi court sentenced a young man to 90 lashes and four months in jail for kissing a girl.  In Iran homosexuals and adulterous women are executed by stoning.  They're wrapped head to toe in a white shroud and buried waist-deep in the center of a 30-foot circle of men who hurl fist-sized rocks at them.  Death is slow and torturous.

Apologists blame extremists but moderates can be dicey, too.  After 9/11 The New York Times reported that American Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki "is held up as a new generation of Muslim leader capable of merging East and West."  The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams highlighted an "American-Muslim lifestyle network" founded by banker Muzzamil Hassan and his wife Aasiya.  Its mission was to counter negative images of Islam on television.

Al-Awlaki later mentored the Fort Hood killer, the Christmas Day bomber, and the Times Square bomber.  The Hassan's marriage ended when she filed for divorce and he beheaded her.  None of them ultimately behaved with moderation.

Cordoba House supporters condescendingly claim to reject bigotry.  But the Muslim sense of superiority and scorn for Christianity and America are clear.  Even a cursory look shows that the Muslims are the bigots - and they're proud of it.

Our "sophisticated" elites are oblivious to the obvious.  If they're concerned about human rights, they should stop kowtowing to Islam and embrace Christianity.   It's time they recognized human rights rest on a Christian foundation that's held in contempt by Muslims.


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