MY CHOICE FOR A NEW MOSQUE LOCATION

SPECIAL POST

This post may not be politically correct. It certainly is a sensitive issue, especially in light of recent events, but what will be said here has to be said sometime, and I feel that the time has come.

Nine years ago, radical Muslims unleashed the power of their hatred toward us at the World Trade Center. As a result of that attack, our nation became aware that there are certain factions on this planet which want to annihilate us. Indeed, we had somehow had the audacity to presume that, just because we are Americans, the world is in love with us.

There are, of course, many reasons that radical Muslims want to see us beheaded and set on fire; I won’t dwell on them. What IS important to recognize and to fully realize is that our country has become permeated with members of the Muslim faith who have migrated here from countries that foster terrorism. I‘ve heard it mentioned quite frequently in these past few days that we need to be ready for terrorism from within, and we must. Yet, those remarks are made in a general context and usually contain the caveat that we have totally American factions within the country who would do us harm in order to advance their own agendas as well. But, those factions have always existed in this country going back to pre-revolutionary times and we have always been able to deal with them; what we need to really concern ourselves with in 2010 is the threat of domestic terrorism raised from internal radical Muslim groups.

Let me be quick to say that I am not suggesting we should round up all Muslims and ship them out of the country. What does concern me, however, is that Muslims of all walks of life in this country have been somewhat reluctant to denounce radical Islam. One therefore must wonder what side of the fence they would all stand on if the call came from radical Muslim leaders to strike us from within. Would they join us, or them?

I feel that we Americans must be totally aware of the dangers that lurk within our country and that we must constantly contemplate the potential outcomes of possible and probable internal terrorism. In that regard, moving the Mosque from its intended location near the ground-zero World Trade Center site to the actual site itself seems to me to be the right solution. Having the Mosque on that hallowed ground would certainly serve as a constant reminder to us that we are now living in a dangerous time and a dangerous world. Moving it to some other out-of-sight place could serve to return us to our complacent vulnerability.