One would think that after the attacks of September 11, 2001, that Americans would be more wary of what happens on our own soil. I remember that day very well and the many emotions that ran through me: fear, worry, confusion, and finally, anger and the wish to stop at nothing to avenge the innocent men and women that died in the Twin Towers. It has now been eight years and it seems that many have forgotten the range of emotions that ran through each of us that day. According to Chelsea Schilling of WorldNetDaily, (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119328) a new Muslim mosque will open on the doorstep of Ground Zero.
While not all Muslims are responsible for the horrors of 9/11, it is a disgrace to the memory of those that died in the attacks to have a “complete Islamic cultural center, with a mosque, a museum, ‘merchandising options,’ and room for seminars to reconcile religions, ‘to counteract the backlash against Muslims in general’” just down the street from where the attacks by Muslim radicals took place. Also, ironically enough, a Jewish museum for the Holocaust is also just down the way. Political correctness strikes again. Rauf, the Imam of the new mosque that believes that the blame for the civilian attacks should lay on the Christian population, said that was supposed to have the “…opposite statement to what happened on 9/11.” It’s a statement, alright, but I hardly trust it. If the tables had been turned and a group of radicals that claimed to be Christians had attacked civilians in the Middle East and then sympathizers built a church next to the site, the whole world would call for retribution.
So why is it that Christians are always seen as the villains and the Muslim community (especially those that sympathize with the radicals) have been glorified so that they may do no wrong? Why is it that a man like Nidal Hasan can pass through all of the security of Fort Hood to shoot and kill soldiers when he was on watch for radical statements? Because people feared to be seen as being part of the “Muslim backlash” that the left speaks of so often speak of, there were thirteen needless deaths on base before the men and women were to deploy to the Middle East to help protect this country that we live in. Instead of the wariness that should accompany an attack on our own soil the media has made it the politically correct thing to overprotect the Muslim community so that they can do no wrong. Along with those innocent, we seem to be protecting those that are guilty as well, like giving rights to the terrorist and trials in New York City as if they were American citizens.
It’s difficult to look out on our country and see that the “tolerance” of political correctness has turned to submission. We need to learn the difference between kindness towards our fellow man and spinelessness against those that hate us. In an idealistic world the kindness that we show our enemies would win them over into friendship, but this world is far from idealistic and one cannot reason with those that believe that their god has commanded them to kill those that do not believe as they do. Those that open the mosque between Ground Zero and the museum to remember the Jewish Holocaust do so to make a statement, that is one thing that is for sure, but I cannot believe it is for the better.
