On a day when dhimmi [1] Christian leaders stood with Hamas-linked ISNA to defame the 70% Americans who oppose the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero, it was refreshing to see this piece, reminding us that not all Christian believers today are dupes of Islamic supremacists. "Say No to the Ground Zero Victory Mosque," by John Zmirak at [2] Inside Catholic, September 8:

This weekend, my home town will be the site of an extraordinary event. Let me beg everyone who is able to make the pilgrimage to Ground Zero on the ninth anniversary of the Islamist mass-murder attack on our country. It is there that [3] thousands of citizens will gather at 3 p.m. at Park Place (between Church and West Broadway) to register their outrage at the attempt by foreign-funded, terrorist-friendly Muslims to build a triumphalist mosque at the site of an Islamist slaughter, replacing a building that was damaged by one of the planes hijacked by 19 orthodox Muslims. (Nineteen is a [4] mystical number in Islamic theology -- as significant for them as twelve is for Christians -- which seems to be why Osama bin Laden recruited precisely that many terrorists).

The archbishop of New York has compared the controversy over the Ground Zero mosque to that which raged in the 1990s over the [5] Carmelite convent at Auschwitz -- and gently asked the mosque-builders to look for another, less inflammatory site, just as Pope John Paul II moved the convent away from the death camp. I am glad Archbishop Timothy Dolan [6] weighed in to make this comparison, and appreciate his courage. In most of the West, Catholic leaders are twisting the Faith into knots to accommodate the most outrageous demands of imperialist Islam. For instance, in North Africa and France, Muslims who wish to convert to Catholicism -- and Islam imposes the death penalty for apostasy, enforced in many countries -- have found that some priests and bishops are [7] unwilling to baptize them. [...]

And if we let them build it, 9/11 really will have been the victory that they think it was. They will smell our weakness and fear, sneer at us, and move on to the next and greater outrage. Enabling such arrogance does not amount to turning the other cheek, accepting a minor slight out of love for peace; arguably, that's what John Paul did in moving the Auschwitz convent. No, supporting Islamic expansion in the West is an act of moral cowardice, which wins people praise as "tolerant" and cosmopolitan, for which the next generation will pay the price. And our children will curse us for it.

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