Nine years ago on Sept. 112001 radical Islamic terrorists hijacked four airplanes and murdered nearly 3000 innocent people marking the worst terrorist attack on the United States in history.
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center rapidly transformed into an inferno with trapped fathers and mothers calling their children in tears to say their last goodbyes— others leaping to their deaths in desperation.
The towers would collapse later that morning leaving behind an aftermath of smoke and scattered debris. Charred and broken bodies of many murdered civilians were never identified and America awoke to the destruction caused by the enemies of freedom.
If you’re reading this then you probably voted for President Barack Obama. Families of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks can now thank you for electing a man who shares common ground with the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas. At a White House dinner speech Aug. 13 Obama announced his support for the construction of the Cordoba House mosque— the Islamic center whose planned construction is two blocks from Ground Zero. Obama’s statement that Muslims have “the right to build a place of worship” in the shadow of Ground Zero is a clear indication of his continuous oblivion. While the president of the United States is charged with the duty to uphold the Constitution and the freedoms protected therein the duty also is vested in him to defend the American families who lost their loved ones on that very sacred ground.
Advocates who support the mosque’s construction are equally naïve but considerably more foolish for thinking that a constitutional debate can overshadow this slap in the face to families of the 9/11 victims.
Dense proponents overlook the crucial fact that throughout Islamic history Muslims have built symbols of victory and triumph on the grounds that they conquer. The current project in lower Manhattan is deliberately named after “The Great Mosque” in Cordoba Spain which was built in the early 8th century after Islamic warriors tore down the Christian Church of Saint Vincent. To Muslims the Cordoba Mosque signified the conquest over Christians in Southern Spain and confirmed Islam’s supremacy over Christianity. And now in the wake of the ninth anniversary of 9/11 radical Muslim leaders will declare symbolic victory over the United States by constructing a mosque just steps from where the World Trade Center once stood.
Outraged Americans are further questioning the credibility given to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf the Islamic leader behind the mosque’s construction. Rauf claims that the center will be a place for all faiths to peaceably join together for understanding but his radical record proves otherwise. Following the 9/11attacks in an interview with Ed Bradley on CBS Rauf claimed that he believed that the United States was “an accessory to the [9/11 terrorist attacks].”
Additionally Rauf has repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas as a terrorist organization even though the group has trained a number of suicide bombers and is listed on the U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Yet Obama New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other senseless elected officials remain stubborn in their support of the mosque ignoring two-thirds of Americans who oppose it.
Moving forward with the building of the Ground Zero mosque only confirms for radical Islamic terrorists that they have achieved what they sought to accomplish on 9/11: the defeat of Americans and everything we stand for.
We live in a world where our way of life as Americans is constantly under attack. We must take back our nation from those who refuse to protect us and whose failure to act makes them enemies of freedom.
With Obama declaring an end to the War on Terror the duty is left to Americans to rise up and defend our country from all enemies foreign and domestic. “Freedom as President Ronald Reagan said, is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Now is the time to stand for what is right and for all that is good and just. Now is the time to stand for America.