#17 Oppositionists to a Mosque at Ground Zero

On 9/11/2001, a band of radical Muslims took over planes and turned them into missiles taking down both WTC towers, and inflicting damage to the Pentagon.  Thousands of American lives were lost.

In the late 19th century, a band of radical Christians took over entire towns in the southern US, burning crosses and lynching black people and other minorities. Countless American lives were lost.

But the act of terrorism by a Christian group has not prevented Christian churches from taking root at the sites of lynchings and other injustices against Americans.  Good luck finding evidence of protests against the building of Christian places of worship on these former sites of terrorism.  In fact, many people accredit the building of more churches as having helped heal the wounds inflicted in the southern states by the “Christ-anointed” KKK.  Even victims of racism at the hands of this fringe Christian group were over-time declaring to the masses, “ya’ll motherfuckas need Jesus!”

Yet, here we are as a country over a hundred years later faced with a similar situation. A fringe religious group has preemptively attacked citizens of our country on the premise that we are infidels out to destroy them and their way of life.

Rather than showing the world that we are tolerant of all religions and that we do not hold ALL Muslims responsible for the events of 9/11, a handful (the most trusted source for news –Fox News — would have you believe the majority) of the country has expressed opposition to the building of a mosque (actually it’s a community center – semantics aside) near ground zero.

As Michael Hughes observed in the Huffington Post:

These abhorrent reactionaries have also smeared Muslim Americans, making all of them responsible for a heinous act of terrorism they had nothing to do with and one most rightly condemn. And, yes Virginia, people of the Muslim faith were in the Twin Towers on September 11th, and yes, there are Muslims, as hard as it is for neocons to fathom – who are patriots.

America was founded with a few basic freedoms, one of those being freedom of religion.  Rather than behaving like Osama Bin Laden himself is applying for a permit to install his own personal latrine at ground zero, Americans should start acting like Americans.  Nothing would show the world that al-Qaeda misjudged our country’s outlook toward Islam more than planting a Muslim place of worship at the site of one of the worst terrorist attacks in our nation’s history.

Unfortunately, these hardheaded bigots who hide behind the veil of Christianity to justify their hateful xenophobia are frequently the same people who denounce birth control, professing every child to be a gift from God Almighty.  The level of brainwashing, ignorance, and indoctrination that children of the Mosque Oppositionists would be required to overcome to lead beneficial lives is daunting.  It is more likely that children of passive-xenophobes could have their prejudices bloom into the second coming of the KKK.

Bigots unable to grasp the hypocrisy in their opposition to the mosque should avoid the challenges that come with raising a child to be a good person and stop reproducing.

Xenophobic Bigots in Action