Proposed Ground Zero mosque in bad faith

World Trade Center site should Rest In Peace

by Michael Graham
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Aug. 8, 2010

No, Robert Gibbs, it is not a “local issue.”

Muslim terrorists didn’t murder office workers at the World Trade Center to protest New York City’s rent control policy any more than the Times Square bomber was motivated by Manhattan’s lack of parking.

These Islamist killers are waging war on America - on all of us as a nation.

Which makes Ground Zero our national cemetery for the Terror War, and the planned mosque near that site a national insult.

Unfortunately President Barack Obama - who’s had so much to say in the past about “local” issues like Cambridge cops and Cleveland basketball stars -proved Sarah Palin’s point by saying nothing about the mosque at Ground Zero.

I wonder what Dr. Frederick Rimmele III of Marblehead would say about it. He was on United Flight 175. Rimmele was just 32.

Will anyone speak for him or his widow, Kim? Or for the more than 200 Massachusetts victims of the 9/11 attack and their families?

Not liberal pols. Rep. Michael Capuano refuses to condemn the planned mosque, saying it’s a “complex issue.” Gov. Deval Patrick dismisses the debate as a “kerfuffle.” In fact, Patrick believes the Americans who suffered this Islam-inspired attack have a duty to solve Islam’s ongoing problem.

“The sooner we separate the peaceful teaching of Islam from the behavior of terrorists, the better for all of us,” Patrick said.

Governor, we Americans didn’t mix Islam and terror. So why is this our job?

But when it comes to PC-provoked insanity, the award goes to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Not only does Bloomberg support building the mosque, he says that if we don’t build it the terrorists win. “To cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists,” Bloomberg said.

Right. I’m sure that not building a mosque on the site of the worst Islam-inspired terror attack in America - so far - would have the Taliban dancing in the streets. Followed immediately by a ritual stoning of any women seen dancing in public.

A mosque at Ground Zero would be viewed in the caves around Kandahar as a great victory for al-Qaeda and its cause. It would also be a testament to the gutless cowardice of our political class.

From Obama to Patrick, they lack the courage to say what every decent person knows: A mosque at Ground Zero would be a disgrace, and our enemies would mock us for allowing it.

The most apt analogy I’ve heard came from a 9/11 family member who said it was like building a Japanese cultural center overlooking the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.

You don’t have to hate Japan or its culture to know that this would be a bad idea. And you don’t have to object to the building of all mosques to be nauseated by the idea of one at Ground Zero.

A spokesperson for the mosque told Fox News yesterday that the Ground Zero facility - “where people of all faiths can come and pray” - would be part of the “pushback against extremism” by moderate Muslims.

Why is this burden being placed on the 9/11 families and their sacred ground? If you really want to confront the extremism, why not build a multidenominational cultural center for Muslims, Christians and Jews in Mecca? Or Tehran? Or Gaza?

Let me know how that works out, will you?