- The U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of religion,
so Muslims should expect to receive the same protection afforded Jews or
Christians. In fact, George Washington made a point of recognizing the
need to protect Muslims from Christian persecution.
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- So how come the government deliberately violates its
own laws and moral precepts to incite hatred against Muslims, Muslim organizations
and Muslim states? There's no point looking for a rational explanation
because there isn't one. Such perverse behaviour cannot be defended legally,
politically or morally within the context of any democratic state.
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- This behaviour can be explained, though, if we acknowledge
that the U.S. democracy is neither rational nor democratic, and that the
persecution of Muslims serves the needs of a foreign government-Israel.
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- The Lobby's control over the U.S. is hardly news-it's
an open secret, just like Israel's nuclear arsenal-but the manufactured
hysteria over an innocuous Muslim community centre in New York shows that
U.S. democratic culture, and I use that term loosely, is essentially despotic
and criminal.
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- As you doubtless know, The Cordoba Society plans to build
a community centre two blocks from the World Trade Centre demolition. After
the proposal was overwhelmingly approved, the Arab Defamation League and
a host of frothing anti-Muslim crusadists began screaming that "a
mosque" must not be built so close to the hallowed ground of America's
holocaust. Even if these demented Jews and Christians have their kickers
in a twist over the project, their complaints have no basis in fact or
reason, and represent the modern face of officially approved U.S. bigotry.
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- Leaving aside the fact that we now know that Muslims
had nothing to do with the Mossad-engineered attack on the WTC, the Cordoba
Society owns the land on which the 13-storey centre is to be built. Protection
of private property rights is the cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution,
so no group has the right to interfere with the society exercising its
constitutional right to develop its property as it sees fit. This latter
point, though, is drowned out in the din of mainstream 9/11 hysteria.
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- Masjid Manhattan, an existing mosque, is only a block
or so farther from the former WTC site than the Cordoba Society's planned
community centre, thus showing that the controversy over proximity to the
site is bigoted nonsense. Source: warincontext.com
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- (The best description of the project, now called simply
Park51, is Haroon Siddiqui's column in the Toronto Star.)
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- Fortunately, many Jewish "heretics," like New
York's mayor Michael Bloomberg and local congressmen Jerry Nadler, have
publicly praised the project and condemned the anti-Muslim crusadists.
"It's only a slap in the face if you think that the people in the
congregation are responsible for al-Qa'ida," said Nadler, "Jews,
of all people, should know that we have to support religious liberty, because
if you can block a mosque you can block a synagogue."
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- Here we see the voice of reason-al-Qa'ida comment notwithstanding-raised
against the broadbrush smear of all Muslims as terrorists, but for all
his accuracy Nadler misses the point. He assumes the protesters to be misguided,
that they erroneously conflate extreme political Muslims with the average
American Muslims. There is no error, here. The protesters are not interested
in analogies between mosques and synagogues or upholding concepts like
religious liberty. Their sole purpose is to incite hatred and fear of Muslims
so that Israel can coerce Americans into believing that Muslims deserve
to be mistreated.
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- Michael Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation,
also a rationalist on this issue, condemns the protest in even stronger
language than Nadler: "There is nothing worse we could be doing to
act as an accelerant and lubricant to transforming young Islamic men and
women around the world into insurrectionists and jihadists [sic] than to
say to a Muslim, 'you are not entitled to freedom.' This is the work of
fundamentalist Christians and ultra-extreme, right-wing Jews."
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- Whereas Nadler focuses on the basic stupidity of the
crusadists' rhetoric, Weinstein makes the serious point that denying Muslims
religious freedom endangers national security, whether in the U.S. or anywhere
else. He also rightly identified the culprits, and in so doing highlighted
the growing alienation of zionists from their co-religionists. It should
be pointed out that one of the centre's founding supporters is the United
Jewish Federation of New York.
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- However, Weinstein also misses the point. He rationally
assumes that it is a horrible mistake "to [transform] young Islamic
men and women around the world into insurrectionists and jihadists,"
yet that is precisely what is supposed to happen. Israel needs Muslims
to be resentful and disaffected so that the demonized stereotype of the
violent Muslim can be invoked to stampede the U.S. into committing horrific
violence in the service of Israel.
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- The greatest threat to Israel is a world where Muslims
are respected as equal members of a community, and enjoy good relations
with people of other faiths. This scenario just happens to be the norm
in a constitutional democracy, but since Israel is a fascist ethnocracy,
democratic protections must be subverted wherever possible.
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- In the end, I expect that the centre will be built because
the crusadists can mount no credible argument against it. The object of
their hatred is not Park51 but the U.S.Constitution, which does not discriminate
against Muslims as Israel demands. This document is more of a threat to
Israel than any bomber, and herein lies the desperate irrationality of
the real terrorists in America.
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