By Debbie Schlussel
For about a week, I’ve been getting e-mails from people asking why I haven’t commented on the Muslims building a mosque at Ground Zero, right near the former home of the World Trade Center. They bought the site of an empty Burlington Coat Factory and will spend over $100 million to build their shrine to the moongod cult. It’s ironic that the store is closed because Americans and New Yorkers didn’t see to it that business was quickly rebuilt and bustling at the site of the 9/11 attacks. But the business of Islam has been chugging along the whole time with a lot of help from crappy people on both the left AND the right who still refuse to condemn Islam, but just “a few radicals” and “Islamists,” a phony and dishonest word. Ditto for “radical Islam,” a redundant phrase. They keep telling us the BS they know is fertilizer: that “most Muslims” are against terrorism. Among them are not just Muslims and lefties but Sean Vannity, Sarah Palin, Daniel Pipes, Bill O’Reilly, etc. If you support or listen to any of these people, you are part of the problem of the Ground Zero mosque and have no right to complain.
I’ve said nothing about the Ground Zero mosque because even though I don’t like the mosque going up there (or anywhere), I don’t think there’s a case here. It’s too late, and it’s a waste of time to whine about it. And we brought ourselves to this point. We need to pick causes and battles where we will actually be victorious. Many of those opposing the Ground Zero mosque were part of the problem b/c they did nothing for 8 of the last 9 years, since a Republican was their President. Again, they miss him and fawn over false memories of safety and security that brought us here. I don’t miss him yet . . . or ever. The time to stop barbarians was before they were at the gate. Not once they were inside of it and held the deed. The people who did nothing for almost a decade are now circulating petitions against the mosque. Will they teach jihad at the mosque? Of course. That’s what they teach at every mosque and Islamic school in America, none of which these people did anything to stop. Now, it’s a waste of time. Will do nothing to stop it. If you are against mosques at Ground Zero, you should be against them everywhere in America, as I am, and against Muslim immigration to America. So where have you been on that for the last 9 years, during most of which Bush was Prez?
For eight years, we had a President–who claimed to be the counterterrorism Prez–who did nothing to stop Muslim immigration to the U.S. He, in fact, increased it through visa lotteries for underrepresented (read: Muslim) countries, through quadrupling the number of Muslim student visas, and through handcuffing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and largely keep them from arresting Muslim illegal aliens. Now, we have a President, who is continuing those policies, because he said he would. He’s kept his word.
Yes, I blame Bush and not Obama because Obama said he supported these groups and that he would do these things. Bush, on the other hand, said we were fighting the terrorists over there “so we wouldn’t have to fight them over here,” while he was kissing their asses over here and promoting them with your tax dollars every step of the way. He paved the way for them, when he had the mandate to deport them or at least stem their invasion into America. He didn’t. Instead, he (not Obama) set up–within his own Justice Department–a special civil rights unit to go after every American expressing his/her free speech about Muslims, and refused to prosecute, for instance, a Muslim woman who made repeated death, rape, and torture threats against me and my family members.
So, now, those Muslims are here in bigger and more influential numbers than ever because for 8 years these conservative citizens saw no reason to set up Tea Parties against a Republican President who expanded the Islamic presence and power in America and pandered to it. They’re suddenly only upset now that Obama is in office . . . when it is toooo late. Yes, they are the same types that fall in the Tea Party movement. And I ask them: where the heck were you for the last 9 years? Huh? You have a problem with selectivity in battle-picking. Boycotting Muslim-owned businesses, opposing Muslim obstacles to free speech–those are effective. This faux-protest won’t be.
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