...which, IMHO, is to create public chaos among the populace and to use this chaos to undermine the principles of democracy that the west preaches and to gain converts.
George Jonas: A strange way to promote ‘understanding’
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Ground Zero mosque site
August 7, 2010 – 10:44 am
‘We have to let them build their mosque. But we don’t have to buy the project’s phony rationale’
The much-disputed mosque near Ground Zero has been described as a test of our commitment to liberty. With great respect to pundits on both sides of the issue, I think it is a test of our commitment to the wrong question.
The question isn’t whether people should be able to build whatever they like on their private properties. To this, the answer is a simple yes in a free society, subject only to the appropriate municipal zoning laws and building codes. Anyone who denies others this right because of religious or political sympathies needs a refresher course in the basics.
Except this isn’t the question to ask about the Cordoba Initiative.
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Today’s letters: Trouble at Ground Zero
...and my position is getting support:
Today’s letters: Trouble at Ground Zero
August 7, 2010 – 8:30 am
Every day, readers flood our letters to the editor inbox with their thoughts and reaction to items in the news, leading to many interesting insights — and often arguments — between correspondents. Here are the letters from today’s Letters page.
Re: The Right to Build a Mosque, John Moore, Aug. 5.
I can’t claim to be an Arabist but, having worked in three Arab countries, I have some understanding of the Arab mindset. What John Moore fails to understand is that construction of the “Islamic cultural centre” near the site of the former World Trade Center is a challenge from the Wahabists to America. Its successful completion will constitute “giving the finger” to infidels and be viewed by Islamists everywhere, not as an example of tolerance, but as encouraging evidence of Western decadence and weakness.
Lee Morrison, Calgary.
John Moore’s column is full of intellectual dishonesty. Mr. Moore ridicules Ezra Levant’s comparison to building a Japanese military museum near Pearl Harbor, but the proposed Islamic centre is or was to be named “Cordoba House,” Cordoba being the capital of Al-Andalus, the Islamic Caliphate that ruled much of Spain during the Middles Ages which Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden have pledged to restore.
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A woman protests against the proposed construction of a Muslim cultural centre a few bocks away from Ground Zero.
I can’t claim to be an Arabist but, having worked in three Arab countries, I have some understanding of the Arab mindset. What John Moore fails to understand is that construction of the “Islamic cultural centre” near the site of the former World Trade Center is a challenge from the Wahabists to America. Its successful completion will constitute “giving the finger” to infidels and be viewed by Islamists everywhere, not as an example of tolerance, but as encouraging evidence of Western decadence and weakness.
Lee Morrison, Calgary.
John Moore’s column is full of intellectual dishonesty. Mr. Moore ridicules Ezra Levant’s comparison to building a Japanese military museum near Pearl Harbor, but the proposed Islamic centre is or was to be named “Cordoba House,” Cordoba being the capital of Al-Andalus, the Islamic Caliphate that ruled much of Spain during the Middles Ages which Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden have pledged to restore.
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