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Whoever this guy is, I like the way he thinks!
Criticisms of pastor apply to mosque-builders, too
Saturday, September 18, 2010 02:57 AM
The universal condemnation of the fringe pastor who threatened to burn the Quran highlights all that is wrong with the hypocritical progressive movement. Had this pastor wanted to burn an American flag, the American Civil Liberties Union would have been right there, offering him a lighter.
Had the pastor wanted to remove a Nativity scene from a city park, the ACLU would drive the moving truck. Had the pastor wanted to sue the Boy Scouts, the ACLU would award him a merit badge of honor. Had this pastor been responsible for the slaughter of thousands of innocent lives and was about to be interrogated by the CIA, the ACLU would be right there with a life preserver and towel to dry him off.
Had this pastor expressed himself in a manner that was more anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-CIA, anti-military or anti-anything that makes America great, the ACLU would have rushed to his aid. But over this issue, the ACLU remains silent.
Why? Because the ACLU stands for one and only one thing: pushing a progressive-Marxist agenda. The purpose of the ACLU, as with most progressive groups, isn't to deliver truth and equal justice; it is to undermine the American system.
Last week, almost all of America, conservative and liberal, condemned the pastor. Almost all of America recognized his threat as irresponsible, inflammatory, dangerous, immature, outrageous and insensitive, and they said so.
Americans spoke with one voice that he may have the “right” to burn the Quran, but as an American, he had the “responsibility” not to. Americans simply don't do those things. Unfortunately, that same message America sent to the pastor is just as applicable to the builders of the proposed mosque near ground zero, but the progressives aren't as quick to condemn the building of the mosque; in fact, many marched in support, carrying manufactured signs accusing those who oppose it of racism.
Americans never would support the building of a monument to the Japanese Air Force at Pearl Harbor, a monument to the Ku Klux Klan in Harlem or a monument to the Nazis in Arlington National Cemetery, and no American would support the building of a triumphal mosque near ground zero. Everything America rightfully accused the pastor of applies to the builders of the mosque, as well, only thousands of times over.
No one dies from the burning of a Quran, while thousands of fellow Americans died on 9/11. The builders of the mosque may have the right to build that mosque, but if they claim to be part of the American family, they have a responsibility not to build it and would feel as much pain about the decision as the families who lost loved ones on 9/11.
America is a melting pot, not an a-la-carte line. If people immigrate here, refuse to assimilate and fail to understand and accept what it means to be an American, we can expect this mosque to be a sign of the America we will become, where we no longer are Americans and we become a nation of hyphenated tribes, dividing America and ultimately tearing it apart.
Great nations never are conquered from without until they have destroyed themselves from within. United we stand; divided we will surely fall.
ROBERT M. WAGNER
Columbus
http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...tor-apply-to-mosque-builders-too.html?sid=101
Whoever this guy is, I like the way he thinks!
Criticisms of pastor apply to mosque-builders, too
Saturday, September 18, 2010 02:57 AM
The universal condemnation of the fringe pastor who threatened to burn the Quran highlights all that is wrong with the hypocritical progressive movement. Had this pastor wanted to burn an American flag, the American Civil Liberties Union would have been right there, offering him a lighter.
Had the pastor wanted to remove a Nativity scene from a city park, the ACLU would drive the moving truck. Had the pastor wanted to sue the Boy Scouts, the ACLU would award him a merit badge of honor. Had this pastor been responsible for the slaughter of thousands of innocent lives and was about to be interrogated by the CIA, the ACLU would be right there with a life preserver and towel to dry him off.
Had this pastor expressed himself in a manner that was more anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-CIA, anti-military or anti-anything that makes America great, the ACLU would have rushed to his aid. But over this issue, the ACLU remains silent.
Why? Because the ACLU stands for one and only one thing: pushing a progressive-Marxist agenda. The purpose of the ACLU, as with most progressive groups, isn't to deliver truth and equal justice; it is to undermine the American system.
Last week, almost all of America, conservative and liberal, condemned the pastor. Almost all of America recognized his threat as irresponsible, inflammatory, dangerous, immature, outrageous and insensitive, and they said so.
Americans spoke with one voice that he may have the “right” to burn the Quran, but as an American, he had the “responsibility” not to. Americans simply don't do those things. Unfortunately, that same message America sent to the pastor is just as applicable to the builders of the proposed mosque near ground zero, but the progressives aren't as quick to condemn the building of the mosque; in fact, many marched in support, carrying manufactured signs accusing those who oppose it of racism.
Americans never would support the building of a monument to the Japanese Air Force at Pearl Harbor, a monument to the Ku Klux Klan in Harlem or a monument to the Nazis in Arlington National Cemetery, and no American would support the building of a triumphal mosque near ground zero. Everything America rightfully accused the pastor of applies to the builders of the mosque, as well, only thousands of times over.
No one dies from the burning of a Quran, while thousands of fellow Americans died on 9/11. The builders of the mosque may have the right to build that mosque, but if they claim to be part of the American family, they have a responsibility not to build it and would feel as much pain about the decision as the families who lost loved ones on 9/11.
America is a melting pot, not an a-la-carte line. If people immigrate here, refuse to assimilate and fail to understand and accept what it means to be an American, we can expect this mosque to be a sign of the America we will become, where we no longer are Americans and we become a nation of hyphenated tribes, dividing America and ultimately tearing it apart.
Great nations never are conquered from without until they have destroyed themselves from within. United we stand; divided we will surely fall.
ROBERT M. WAGNER
Columbus
http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...tor-apply-to-mosque-builders-too.html?sid=101
