A good deal more attention ought to be paid to what clerics like Imam Rauf say to their Muslim brethren as opposed to what they say to America and the West. It would soon be discovered that they have turned duplicity into an art form while they rely on our general ignorance of Islam and the viscious doctrines laced throughout the Koran in order to induce the kind of narcotic serenity that makes some of us incapable of appreciating our mortal danger.
Imam Rauf, and his wife Daisy Kahn, have been mouthing the usual platitudes about “mutual understanding”, “building bridges”, and “inter-faith dialogue” along with accusations of bigotry and Islamaphobia. This is the default mode of a fascist ideology with a hair-trigger sensitivity which is always deployed to gain disproportionate concessions as it proceeds with its insinuation of sharia law. A phobia is an irrational fear of one thing or another, but there is nothing irrational about our fear and suspicion of Islam since so many of us are aware of its miserable track record and are actually able to connect the obvious dots between Islam, jihad, sharia law, and the mosques which support and encourage what is not so much a religion as a totalitarian ideology that has spread its cancer to every corner of the globe. The Koran contains over 4000 verses of hatred towards non-muslims and over 60% of the Koran tells Muslims to hate the infidels and to avoid any association with them. Their holy book, their title deed, the Koran itself is dedicated to hatred towards non-believers. No other religion in the world has a document which shares this distinction but we are always asked to ignore it and to accept that this is not the true nature of Islam. Their perpetual protestation that theirs is a “religion of peace” is so nonsensical that it slanders nonsense.
Seventy percent of Americans do not want this grotesque monument to Islamic supremacism built where it would overshadow that hallowed ground, that stricken field, that graveyard of our murdered countrymen who were slaughtered one awful September morning. If build it they must then let them build it elsewhere and without trying to insult our intelligence by trying to fool us into thinking that it is an act of contrition symbolizing universal outreach and the brotherhood of man, two concepts which are as alien to them just as their undiminished ambition of a global caliphate, under the gruesome apparatus of sharia law, is as obvious as obnoxious to the rest of us.
