Hallowed Ground, Slippery Slope
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Well, the day has finally come that I thought never would; I am forced to speak words I swore would never make the trip past my lips. Here goes:
President Obama is r-r-r-… (gimme a second) Obama is ri-rr-r…(dang it!) Obama’s not as wrong as he usually is.
In case you’ve been under a rock recently, our President, while attending a dinner celebrating the Islamic holy holiday of Ramadan, (which is another issue altogether) started a poop storm in the press by asserting that government interference in the building of a mosque in the shadow of the World Trade Center site, mere blocks from ground zero, is against the founders intent. And he has a point. Out of every civilized country in the world, the United States should be the last to use the force of government to squash the religious practices of any religion, even Islam. Since then, Obama has refused to comment on what he terms the “wisdom” of building the mosque, but his main point is actually, well…right.
But let’s not lose our perspective on this issue; while it is part of the American provenance to allow full and unhindered religious freedom, where national security is concerned a line must be drawn and make no mistake, a mosque on what Americans consider hallowed ground, where three thousand of us were mercilessly slaughtered on national television, is a national security issue.
Can a mere nine years since 911 be sufficient time for abandoning honor in the face of so-called tolerance? Does Mr. Obama actually expect Americans to just be fine with this disrespect to our fallen dead, on 911 and since? How many times must Islamic extremists murder or attempt to murder U.S. citizens on U.S. soil before he and others like him will admit, when the cameras are rolling, that we are at war with them? They certainly have made it plain that they are at war with us, but instead of taking a really courageous stance and saying unequivocally that hell no this Imam who preaches U.S. complicity in the 911 attacks should NOT build his mosque over the graves of our citizens, our President throws a tax payer funded state dinner and kisses their collective asses. It’s a mere accident that he actually said something containing a grain of truth; it probably gave him a migraine.
Mr. Obama’s statement about religious freedom was correct, but the intention behind it was all too recognizable. Like the crafty politician he outwardly despises but innately emulates, he was playing to his crowd, telling them what they wanted to hear in order to be appreciated, if only for the evening and he either didn’t think about what his comments would mean to those who still feel the chill and horror of watching those people die, or he didn’t care. Either one is unacceptable for a U.S. President.
The sad truth is, as long as there are no laws against it and they have the wherewithal to do it, they can build their shrine to the 911 hijackers on the hallowed ground of the World Trade Center, but that ground sits on a slippery slope. If this mosque is finally built, there will be violence, there will be blood and there will more loss of life in a city and on a site that has seen far too many innocents die already. President Obama in truth should not have even made mention of this, should not have involved himself in it, because by doing so, he contradicts what could be the most intelligent thing he’s ever said as President.
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