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The proposed building of a Mosque at Ground Zero in New York City was addressed earlier on this Blog. If you missed it, you can see that post here.
Now comes R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., Editor-in-Chief of The American Spectator with a definitive piece on the absurdity of the whole idea, and especially on the speciousness of the arguments advanced in support of the entirely inappropriate and insensitive placing of the edifice by member-in-good-standing of the "ruling class," Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said the following:
"What is great about America, and particularly New York, is we welcome everybody, and if we are so afraid of something like this, what does it say about us?"
R. Emmett Tyrrell counters:
"First of all, we do not welcome everybody, not drugs lords, not Nazis, not Islamofascists. Secondly, we are not "so afraid of something like this." Rather, we recognize it as an affront to the fallen and to the Nation. Ad arguendo, the affront might not be intended by those wishing to put up the mosque, but it will be recognized by others throughout the world as an affront. Possibly it will be recognized as a sign of the triumph of Islam over non-believers. It ought not to go up."
To read the entire article in The American Spectator, go here.
Things got worse within hours of posting the above. Claudia Rosett, journalist-in-residence at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, posted this piece at Pajamas Media this afternoon.
It seems Feisal Abdul Rauf, imam of the plan for a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero, is scheduled to spend the rest of the summer on a swing through those bastions of religious tolerance: Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bahrain, and Qatar, courtesy of the U. S. State Department. Actually, his entire trip will be courtesy of U. S. Taxpayers. Another day - another scandal.
