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Cordoba House, A Test of Wills?

No contest, the prize goes to - the patient and the foxy who need do no other than remind Americans of just how patriotic and humane and just it is to bow to the entirely reasonable demands of the underdog, the humble who seek nothing more for themselves to be seen as an integral portion of that Great American Dream.

The quasi-Western-Islamic society of Turkey has finally reverted to origins, in full recognition of the supremacy of Islam, and the silently infiltrated world of the West is ripe for engagement in the slow and inevitable transformation. "The mosques are our barracks, the domes of our helmets, the minarets of our bayonets." Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In point of fact, the face of Europe has been transformed with a gradual influx of Muslims, and for whom civil society must submit to the need for mosques to adorn their formerly church-ubiquitous landscape. Within North America mosques are now everywhere; lovely architecture of exotic dimensions. There can never be too many, since the irresistibly-blooming immigrant population of Islam charges full steam ahead.

In Canada, there is no geographical location too distant to be adorned with a mosque. One recently manufactured mosque is heading straight for its new home in Inuvik, N.W.T., to be acclaimed as the most northerly mosque in the Western Hemisphere. It was built in Winnipeg, and is being trucked to Inuvik. When it reaches Hay River, its transit will be further enabled by barge. Planned to serve the roughly one-hundred Muslims currently in Inuvik.

"This is making Islamic history. The reward is great. For me, this is like Star Trek - it's going where no one else has gone before." Hussain Guisti, a founder of the Zubaidah Tallab Foundation (Tallab; scholars, hence Taliban), a Manitoba-based Muslim charity whose establishment is meant to encourage, fund and make possible mosques for Muslim communities. "It's where we worship five times a day. It's where we hold all of our festivities. It's where we hold our weddings, our potluck dinners."

Yes, yes, yes, it is all of that. And more, much more. It is where imams preach the holy Koran. And invite guest speakers from abroad to further enthuse and occasionally inflame the audience of pious Muslims. It is where on occasion, young Muslims are entreated to take their religious obligations more seriously. It is where they are recruited into the ranks of the radical faithful. It is where they are directed further to training camps dedicated to violent jihad.

Cordoba House is a very special place. In the tradition of many other world-renowned special places. History does repeat itself, unfailingly, unflinchingly. We are destined to repeat ourselves and save the regrets for later. A test of wills? Not an equal test, unfortunately, between the guilt-ridden, fervently anti-bigotry Western ideals proving no match for the subtle craft of guile, and the easeful machinations that capably turn Western ideals against the better interests of gullible Westerners.

With the Cordoba House project the principals, the funding behind the initiative in their righteously entitled zeal to prevail, present living proof that Islam demands and never accommodates. Its estimable clerical spokesman, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has been accepted as a moderate and packed off on missions to the Middle East to persuasively convey to the Gulf State elites that the United States is prepared to accommodate Islam; trips paid for by the U.S. State Department.

Back in the United States, his home as a patriotic American of Muslim descent, he is implacably intent on establishing a mosque complex vociferously and emphatically rejected by most non-Muslim Americans. Clearly, in a concerted effort on his part and the part of his backers and funders, to demonstrate just how readily and completely the ummah is prepared to accept American values and sensibilities. In the process claiming slightly more on the equality scale.

The "Ground Zero" mosque is determined to become a reality. And equally determined are the municipal council of New York, along with those citizens who proclaim the mosque's situating in the shadow of the Twin Towers irrelevant to the matter at hand; upholding the religious freedoms guaranteed to all Americans. Positions of righteous principle satisfying the personal ego.

While doing nothing to advance equality and security when the belligerent adversary crows that his hideously hateful ideology has triumphed, validating the struggle for eventual world domination. For that is, of course, the course of action long since undertaken, and posting considerable advances though patient triumphs. Reflecting heritage, culture, religious history and ideology. Where, since the time of Islam's presentation on the world stage, just that very agenda has been pursued.

A few set-backs here and there along the course of historical events, but matters are now progressing satisfactorily. Islam has a well-earned reputation, the symptoms of which are readily seen in various places of the world, where a determined effort has been made to destroy the symbols of other cultures, ethnic groups and religions. From Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock in 689 built atop Judaism's ancient Second Temple of Solomon, to Constantinople's Byzantine Christian church converted to a mosque.

In Libya Moammar Gadhafi saw fit to convert 78 Jewish synagogues of ancient derivation to mosques. The Taliban in Afghanistan destroyed the ancient Buddhas of Bamyan, protected under UNESCO's world heritage recognition; they were said to be abominations in the consideration of fundamentalist Islamists. In Israel and in the West Bank ancient biblical places sacred to Judaism continue to be destroyed by Palestinian Arabs. Christian churches in Muslim countries are continually under attack.

The furore over the Cordoba House mosque is a modern litmus test of Western conscience and tolerance, those highly vaunted attributes of a civilized, democratic society. On the other hand, Islamic precepts that consider the Islamic countries of the world to be recognized as the global House of Submission, under Sharia law, also recognizes another, and quite intolerable reality, the non-Muslim-governed world, the House of War, not yet in submission to Islam.

While there has been much suffering for innocuous, ordinary, unobtrusive and devout Muslims within the House of Submission, attacked by their viciously rapacious brethren-in-religion, the true battle for violent jihad is the House of War. For where there is no recognition and submission to Islam, there is the battlefield. The imperative being to wage relentless war against the infidels, the kuffars, the apostates, to bring them into the fold of Islam, and under Sharia law.

On the one hand there is the West, with its attenuated sense of danger perceived in the need to be unwaveringly fair and just to all, and on the other there is the religion-deranged avengers of those who insult the Prophet and who deny the need to submit to the final authority, the one true God, Allah. Sensitive Westerners and their aiding-and-abetting elite politicians who govern them, feel they must uphold Western traditions. Some match that is against those who scorn and deride Western traditions.

Europe finds itself singularly embattled by an established and still growing population of Muslims. From among whom rise leaders who insist on special entitlements in recognition of the very special needs of Muslims. And in the course of acknowledging those special needs and making certain those needs are met, a slow deterioration of normalcy and fractionalization of society has eroded European customs, values and traditions.

Which is precisely what is seen in mirror-image in North America with a drive toward the establishment of special Sharia for Muslims, undercutting the universal laws and entitlements established within society. Which Muslims are complacently taking advantage of, when it is to their advantage to do so.

Islamic intolerance for the societal mores, values, social engagements, universal laws and entitlements of the majority populations which they join presents as a creeping danger to the bulk of non-Muslim countries and their societies. By their entitled special demands for accommodation they violate the principles of equal rights and freedoms.

Blithely and with malice aforethought, while denying any such intent, applying pressure to their devout cause from the greater society. And obliging politicians who curry voting power.

The democratic West's ready agreement toward cultural relativity has emboldened and enabled the fanatical Muslim manipulators. Covert multiple marriages, separation of the genders, female-form-covering garb, censorship demands, hate-crime prosecutions of claimed Islamophobics, all feed into the general manipulation of Western ideals, corrupting them subtly in the interests of accommodation.

To respond otherwise than by acceptance is to be intolerant and that is simply intolerable.

Progressive liberals have lent themselves to the entire process, passionately defending the demands of fanatical Islam. Constitutional democracy and liberalism is bending its knee in obeisance to fanatical Islamist ideology, because it is seen as the decent thing to do; upholding the minority rights of religious and ethnic groups.

That their tolerance for the views and insistent needs of those who are themselves intolerant of diversity and freedoms and who foment violence and constitute a threat to their very defenders, is beyond their intelligence in their own zeal to be seen as amenable and fair and in accord with the demands of minorities.

From the destruction of thousands of lives in a mind-shattering attack on a symbol of Western accomplishment and wealth, to the permissive tolerance of capping the aerial ambush with the 13-story Islamic centre, the symbolism appears lost among the unwary.

And the ummah of the faithful in Islam is ballast, carried along in the slip-stream of conquest.

Labels: Human Relations, Political Realities, Religion

posted by Pieface @ Thursday, September 09, 2010