Friday, September 10, 2010

The elephant in the mosque

All this Muslim outrage over talk of Koran burning, and the insistent push to build the NY mosque over protests of the majority of NY residents and 70% of US citizens, and the plan to name the Islamic center after the Mosque of Córdoba, which was built as a sign of conquest literally on top of a Catholic church in Cordoba, Spain, by the conquering Moors -- makes one wonder what the reaction might be if Christians of the Reconquista had built on top of a Moorish mosque from those times a Catholic cathedral named after Santiago Matamoros -- Saint James the Moorslayer.

Amidst the recent appeals by the U.S. president, by the Department of Defense, by liberal news media editors and such against Qur'an-burning -- all of which are clearly motivated by fear of violent reprisal, destruction, burnings and loss of life (all of which are predicted by Islamic leaders and promised by self-proclaimed jihadists) -- the elephant in the room is the fact that all the claims (made by everyone from former President Bush to current Muslim leaders) that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance are confounded by the massive international experience to the contrary.

[Hat tip to E.E.]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"[T]he elephant in the room is the fact that all the claims (made by everyone from former President Bush to current Muslim leaders) that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance are confounded by the massive international experience to the contrary."

As opposed to claims the American Empire is a "Benevolent" Hegemon--notwithstanding its perpetual wars, surveillance, extraordinary rendition, torture, terror bombings, election tampering and starvation blockades.