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Ground Zero Mosque: The Real Issue

GROUND ZERO MOSQUE: THE REAL ISSUE

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on DickMorris.com on August 18, 2010

The proposed mosque near to ground zero is not really a religious institution. It
would be—as many mosques throughout the nation are—a terrorist recruitment,
indoctrination and training center. It is not the worship of Islam that is the
problem. It is the efforts to advance Sharia Law with its requirement of Jihad and
violence that is the nub of the issue.

There is a global effort to advance Sharia Law and make it the legal system of the
world. Most major banks and financial institutions offer Sharia Compliant Funds
which have their investments vetted by the most fundamentalist and reactionary of
clerics to assure that they advance Sharia Law. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the founder
of the proposed Mosque, helps to prepare a Sharia Index which rates countries on
their degree of compliance with Sharia Law. In the United Kingdom, many courts have
recognized Sharia as the governing law on matters between two Muslims.

Not only is Sharia Law a vicious anti-female code which orders death by stoning,
promotes child marriage, decriminalizes abuse of women, and gives wives no rights in
divorce, but it also explicitly recognizes the duty of all Muslims to wage Jihad
against non-believers and promotes violence to achieve its goals. In this respect,
violent Jihad is as inherent in Sharia Law as revolution is in Communist doctrine.

But there are non-Sharia mosques where peaceful and spiritual Muslims worship God in
their own way without promoting violence. A soon-to-be published study funded by
Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, found that 20% of the mosques in the
United States have no taint of Sharia and simply promote peaceful worship. But 80%
are filled with violent literature, Sharia teachings, and promotion of Jihad and its
inevitable concomitant—terrorism.

Which brings us to the ground zero mosque. There can be no doubt that any mosque
organized and run by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will be based on Sharia Law and will
serve as local branch office of the pan-Islamic terrorist offensive against the
west. That such a facility should be located right next to the place where Jihad
achieved its most hideous triumph is unspeakably inappropriate.

President Obama is confusing the issue when he describes it as one of religious
freedom. There is broad latitude to worship God as one chooses. But there is none to
promote violence and terrorism. The record of involvement of Sharia mosques with the
9-11 attackers and the Ft. Hood massacre shooter is so deep and extensive that it
vividly underscores the difference between a religious institution and an
organization that promotes terrorism.

Politically, President Obama’s defense of the mosque and his efforts to make it a
First Amendment issue are incredibly self-destructive. They raise questions about
his political sanity. It is hard to believe how tone deaf he must have become to
take such a position. He has now embraced two positions that are anathema to
two-thirds of all Americans—the mosque and opposition to Arizona’s immigration
law. Neither was a controversy that sought him out. He waded into each one
voluntarily with flags flying. He had no role in the Arizona law but his lawsuit to
invalidate it made it his fight. He does not sit on the New York City Planning
Commission, but his endorsement of the mosque puts him squarely in the center of
controversy. What is he using for brains these days?

To continue the efforts to battle Sharia Law and the attempts of radical Muslims to
use it to destroy our values and the gains of feminism, please follow the work
funded by the Center for Security Policy and conducted by David Yerushalmi. To help
to fund their efforts, go to centerforsecuritypolicy.org.

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