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The proposed 100 million dollar Islamic facility near ground zero continues its mission of mischief. A growing cavalcade of voices from the right and the left have bubbled up to attack and defend the legality and sensitivity of a site selected close enough to the memorial to be hit by aircraft debris. This heated debate has fired a new word, “Islamophobic.”
A phobia is an extreme fear. It can be rational apprehension born from experience or irrational terror born from imagination. People chewed up by pit-bulls commonly develop a phobic reaction to that species and those who own them. People who spend too much time chewing on their own thoughts can develop a phobic reaction to just about anything. In truth most of us harbor secret phobias birthed in unique personal experience.
The term “Islamophobic” has origins common to another mocking label – “homophobic.” The term is intended to imply a fear of irrational and thus discredited nature. In the case of homosexuality, those who raise questions about origins and outcomes are often branded as irrationally “homophobic” as an ironic means to shutting down rational debate. The term “Islamophobic” was birthed for similar purpose.
At this point it is probably important to confess a severe personal case of “Islamohobia.” For liberal progressives who love the diversity of deviance but who have a phobic reaction to diversity of thought, further reading may bring uncomfortable light to a closed mind.
The origins of this author’s phobia has to do with an Islamic faith having more to do with earthly matters than spiritual ones. In contrast with the Bible, a book written by many people over a long period of time, the source of the Koran is one man, Mohammed, who wrote the book over the course of one troubling lifetime.
Mohammed was a powerful figure whose early writings revealed an extraordinary level of depth, wisdom, and spiritual insight. Unfortunately, his later contributions and deviant lifestyle reveal a sinister evolution having more to do with the corruption of a man than the grace of God.
Out of the mind of Mohammed came the Koran. Out of the Koran came a conflicting message of peace and quarrel. In the face of his literary confusion, Mohammed encouraged his followers to embrace his last words – the ones that emphasize the persecution of infidels, religious war, and a sinister system of cultural bondage called “Sharia Law.”
Though Islamic apologists cite Islam as a religion of peace, it is unwise to confuse Islamic patience with harmonious intentions. The dominant leadership of the Islamic faith is dedicated to the radical core message of the Koran – “We are the good guys. Everyone outside of our faith is an infidel bad-guy who must be converted or wiped out. Then we will have peace.”
New York is a city dominated by self-defined new age liberal progressives. Surprisingly, a majority of the city’s residents are against the facility. New York’s progressive political landscape supports ordinances that prevent entrepreneurial merchant capitalists from building Wal-Marts in the city. Those same ordinances, oddly enough, support entrepreneurial religious extremists in building a shrine to the successes of 9-11’s entrepreneurial political terrorists.
Any faith with policies dictating that people of other faiths must ultimately convert, submit, or die is up for challenge by those who value religious liberty. Any faith that treats women as chattel, sanctions assassination of those who draw cartoons of their leader, and celebrates 9-11 as a success story merits a phobic reaction or two.
It appears that the proposed center is legal. For the reasons noted above, it most assuredly is not moral. 80% of the funding for our nation’s 2000 mosques comes from Saudi Arabia. Islamic leadership will not reveal where the funding for this facility, a “community center” with an embedded mosque, originates. For phobics in training, it might be useful to note that the terrorists who killed 3,000 people at ground zero also came from Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia, by the way, prohibits non-Islamic religious facilities and activities of any sort. Attempts by an inspired Christian or Jew to build a church or synagogue in that country’s capital city would require crowd control and refreshments for the parade of suicide bombers.
The proposed Islamic facility is a symbol of a political force masquerading as a religion. Conservative thinkers who are not experiencing at least a few phobic tingles may not be thinking at all. Sharia law is central to the Islamic faith. It holds no provisions for religious liberty, diverse thinking, or the tolerance it seeks to manipulate from its distracters and leftheaded apologists. It is against everything for which America and conservatives stand.
What one can do and should do are not always the same thing. Before building their shrine in New York City, a test of sincerity would be for our Muslim brothers to begin confronting their extremists with the same enthusiasm with which they now are confronting ours. Our guys conduct street protests and share emails – their guys crash planes into buildings…
Dr. Carl Mumpower - The Candid Conservative
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