Hallowed Ground, Slippery Slope
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 9/11 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 9/11 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?
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