From the Prague Post, with thanks to Nicolei:
TEPLICE, NORTH BOHEMIA: Milos Kejzlar angrily recalls the reaction of visiting Arabs in Teplice following the events of 9/11."The people of the town were very surprised to see a great number of Arabs here celebrating in the parks and the restaurants after they learned what happened in the U.S.," he said, downing shots of slivovice at his well-kept house in a leafy suburb.
Shocked by some Arabs' response to the destruction of the World Trade Center and flooded by constant media coverage of terrorist plots, Kejzlar concluded that a mosque a few blocks from his home was a bad idea.
"It seems that terrorism often springs from those who gather at the mosques and from those who preach from them," said the 41-year-old high school math teacher.
Last spring, after learning of a private company's plans to erect a temple to cater to the thousands of Arabs, mostly Saudis, who seek extended medical treatments in this historic spa town, Kejzlar launched a petition against the mosque, which would be the country's second.
An informal prayer house already exists on the proposed site of the 132-square-meter (1,467-square-foot) mosque.
"Islam is a strongly orthodox religion that is based on principles that are contrary to our cultural environment as well as the development of our society," the petition reads.
"At the time when Arab terrorism is growing all around the world, it would be very dangerous even to consider granting a permit for such a building. ... Recently there have been many cases of mosques becoming centers of radical Muslims who preach about the necessity to physically liquidate people of different faiths."...
Ramiz Ahmadie, a Beirut native and owner of the Lebanese restaurant that would abut the controversial house of worship, said he doesn't care if the mosque is built because he is a Druid, not a Muslim. However, he scoffed at the notion that the mosque would attract terrorists. He said most of the spa-going visitors are over 60 years old.
"I thought there was supposed to be freedom here. If I want to go to the disco, I can go to the disco," Ahmadie said. "So what's the big deal if someone wants to go pray in a mosque?"
Is he really a Druid? An old English pagan -- from Lebanon? Probably he is a Druze. Anyway, the man's questions are answered above by Kejzlar. Until they are addressed by the Muslim community, Kejzlar has reason to be concerned.
Nice one Milos Kejzlar.You are showing us what we
all should be doing -RESISTING THE BUILDING OF ANY MORE MOSQUES ON OUR SOIL.Mere sight of the damned things raises my blood pressure these days.
Whats more most of 'em are funded by Saudi Arabia
for the purpose of spreading their evil Wahabbi creed and spawning more suicide bombers.Mosques are alien, infernal blots on our landscape and
MUST not be allowed to proliferate.NO MORE MOSQUES
Common sense. Zdravij smysl'. Of particular interest was the straight line, drawn in Mr. Kejzlar's mathematical mind, from the observable behavior of Arabs expressing their delight at the 9/11/2001 attacks, and its perceived rootedness in the mosques that are the centers of Islamic indoctrination. and which Mr. Kejzlar quite sensibly opposes.
Mr. Kejzlar adduces additional evidence of the hilarity of Muslims at the news of the attacks, and is important to remember this behavior, because the fiction that "we were all with you [the Americans] after 9/11" but "by your subsequent behavior you squandered all that sympathy" now bruited about by Muslims, including diplomats, journalists, and plausible smiling academics (one promoter of this line, whom I heard on NPR, is Youssef Ibrahim, an Egyptian now working as an "energy consultant" in the Gulf, after stints as first a New York Times reporter, then as a "Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations" which tells us a lot about the standards of that venerable "Council" when it comes to Middle-Easstern matters) is demonstrably false. The fortuitous late-arriving report from the Czech Republic adds to the mountain of evidence that has already been accumulated, and that we Americans are expected to have forgotten or to be willing to ignore. No, we haven't and we won't.
What happened right after the attacks of 6/11/2001 were spontaneous explosions of delight, celebrations in the West Bank and Cairo and Amman and Tunis and in Beirut (champagne popping even among some dhimmified Christians in the Hamza district),and Baghdad, in Karachi and Djakarta, of course all over Saudi Arabia, and in the West, in a hospital room at the Massachusetts General (where a nurse overheard the celebration among Arab visitors with an Arab patient), in Bradford and London and in Hoboken and Dearborn, and in the banlieues and quartiers chauds of France. Even the pro-Arab BBC correspondent Frank Gardner (he of the recent "help me, I'm a Muslim" fame) reluctantly felt he had to report on the delight of Cairenes in "moderate" and "pro-Western" and "American-allied" (choose whichever idiotic adjective you feel like inserting, just for fun) Egypt. Oh, there was merrymaking, there was much mafeking, everywhere that Muslims could be found. And now, in 2004, we have the personal observations of a mathematics teacher in the Czech Republic who will not be gainsaid -- not by smooth-talking Youssef Ibrahim, nor Rashid Khalidi, nor Rami Khoury, as they offer their plausible and completely false views of how "we lost Arab sympathy" by our "actions in Palestine and Iraq" and -- well, you know, by "our war on Islam."
Mr. Kejzlar's evidence is a small part, but useful, as part of the proof we needed. Quod erat demonstrandum.
SPOT ON, Hugh - tour de force: BRAVO!!
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