The Redhunter

We don't even need to get into the questionable funding behind the project. I'm sure some of it is coming from Muslim Brotherhood or Wahabist sources.

We don't even need to get into the statements and political views of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the chief proponent behind the project. Sure, on September 30, 2001 he told CBS's 60 Minutes: "I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened. But the United States' policies were an accessory to the crime that happened." He is an apologist for Hamas, and when asked to denounce terror instead said that "The issue of terrorism is a very complex question."

And we don't even have to get into the choice of "Cordoba House" as the name. Sure, despite what it's proponents say it might be named after the Great Mosque of Córdoba, which was considered one of the greatest mosques of it's era. Built in 987 A.D. in Cordoba Spain on the site of a church, it was a symbol of the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula. When the Christians recaptured it a few centuries later in 1236, they reconverted it into a church. There just might be some symbolism here.

These things are important and matter, but as disturbing as they are they're not vital to a sound case against this mosque.

The bottom line is that you'd have to be eye-deep in the fever swamps of political correctness not to see Cordoba House as the direct challenge that it is. The Muslims behind this are saying "We will build one of our most important religious buildings on one of your most sacred sites and by doing so will show who has the power over whom." and "All of your Aircraft Carriers look impressive but we will subvert your own homeland from within." Oh yes, that's what it's about.

It's all part of the Jihadism and the War of Ideas that so many have talked about in the years since we woke up on Sept 11.

And let's face it; Ground Zero in New York is a sacred site. That it's not religious-sacred is irrelevant, for non-religious symbols and places can assume sacred relevance. Think of the U.S.S. Arizona laying at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. The National Archives which house the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Every nation, every people, have them.

Those behind the project describe their mission as "Improving Muslim-West Relations." Sure. I think that a better way to foster Muslim-West relations is for Muslims to work to end the tyranny that exists in most Muslim countries and end sharia law wherever it exists.

We're told by the liberal elite that those of us who oppose this project are bigoted and intolerant. We're instructed that our tradition of religious freedom demands that we let this project go forward.

What bullcrap.

You can't just build a church or synagogue anywhere you want. Congregations must be sensitive to neighborhoods, road networks, and the like when developing their plans.

More, this is not a zoning dispute over whether they will pay for road improvements. This is symbolism. This is about power, about a group of Muslims trying to show that they have power over us.

Muslim nations for the most part do not allow anyone to build churches or synagogues in their countries. Saudi Arabia, which controls the most holy sites in Islam, Mecca and Media, certainly does not. The double standard must be called out and the Muslims behind this project told to give an answer.

The people of this nation, and of New York City in particular, are very much against this project. They instinctively know that it is wrong, whatever our "betters" like Mayor Bloomberg may say.

Build your mosque, but build it someplace else.