Religious Freedom at Ground Zero

So what should it be folks? Should Muslims build mosques anywhere they want in this country just like Christians can build churches anywhere they want?

Is it bigotry that has people protesting a planned mosque being built two blocks from Ground Zero? Or is it an act of blatant insensitivity on the part of the Muslim builders?

Syndicated columnist, Charles Krauthammer, does a darn good job of spelling out the truth of the matter.

It’s hard to be an Obama sycophant these days. Your hero delivers a Ramadan speech roundly supporting the building of a mosque and Islamic center at Ground Zero in New York. Your heart swells and you’re moved to declare this President Obama’s finest hour, his act of greatest courage.

Alas, the next day, at a remove of 800 miles, Obama explains that he was only talking about the legality of the thing and not the wisdom — upon which he does not make, and will not make, any judgment.

You’re left looking like a fool because now Obama has said exactly nothing: No one disputes the right to build; the whole debate is about the propriety, the decency of doing so.

It takes no courage whatsoever to bask in the applause of a Muslim audience as you promise to stand stoutly for their right to build a mosque, giving the unmistakable impression that you endorse the idea. What does take courage is to then respectfully ask that audience to reflect upon the wisdom of the project and consider whether the imam’s alleged goal of interfaith understanding might not be better achieved by accepting the New York governor’s offer to help find another site.

Ground Zero is the site of the most lethal attack of that worldwide movement, which consists entirely of Muslims, acts in the name of Islam, and is deeply embedded within the Islamic world. These are regrettable facts, but facts they are. And that is why putting up a monument to Islam in this place is not just insensitive but provocative.

Just as the people of Japan today would not think of planting their flag at Pearl Harbor, despite the fact that no Japanese under the age of 85 has any possible responsibility for that infamy, representatives of contemporary Islam — the overwhelming majority of whose adherents are equally innocent of the infamy committed on 9/11 in their name — should exercise comparable respect for what even Obama calls hallowed ground.

See it here; http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/244269

It seems pretty obvious to me, doesn't it to you? The Catholics took down a nunnery that was close to a Jewish concentration camp....the Japanese would never plan a memorial to their war dead to be erected at Pearl Harbor....and the "tolerant" Muslims should understand that if they want to build bridges with non-Muslims, they should build the mosque somewhere else.

Of course Krauthammer didn't (couldn't?) spell out the very obvious problem of Islam and mosque building....the problem being that Islam leads people AWAY from salvation in Christ. So according to Christ, Paul, John and others....this fact qualifies Islam to be a Satanic religion that is paving a huge road to deception and flat out denying the words of God spoken by Jesus...."I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but through me."

So as far as God's word is concerned...I would just as soon that there were NO mosques in the U.S....in the same way that I hope there are no Satanic Temples built in the U.S....in the same way I hope there are no Voodoo Shrines built in the U.S....in the same way I hope there are no Wicca Seminaries constructed here.