In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Daisy Khan, the wife of the Muslim cleric spearheading the building of the ground zero mosque, tried to smooth over some of the criticism that has become a national issue for Americans.
To the opposition Ms. Khan said:
"We've heard and felt their pain, and we're extending ourselves…We want to repair the breach and be at the front and center to start the healing."
The group building the mosque plans to include a memorial to those who died on 9-11, and is thinking about an interfaith chapel in addition to a mosque which might make it less Islamic and more universal in its scope.
Ms. Khan, who is the executive director of the Society for Muslim Advancement says "the universal values of all religions will be the underpinning of our center…It will all happen in an atmosphere of interfaith collaboration."
If they really believe in building these kinds of bridges then it stands to reason they would not want their religion to hurt any more than it already has in this area. They should be sensitive to the kind of pain a Muslim center with a mosque attached to it, at ground zero would cause.
Not to will only exacerbate the mistrust already ingrained by this whole issue, including questions concerning the real source for the funding for the Mosque, the inability of the good imam to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization, and his comments after 9-11 that somehow Americans were responsible for the attack.
Read about those questions here
To the Hamas issue, Ms. Khan stated that the Imam has “outright condemned all forms of terrorism," a now common euphemism for saying that you cannot condemn Hamas without also condemning Israel for the same thing.
In an article that had been so carefully manipulated to sway Americans into believing that the Mosque people were ok, completely blew it by not recognizing Ms. Khan’s repudiation of accusing Hamas as a terror organization as buzz words for something other than being genuine.
If this mosque gets built, it will be thought of as a further 9-11 victory by the enemy.
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Comments
Agree. How about her and her muslim buddies stand up and directly condemn Al Qaeda and bin Laden and Hamas before we give them an ounce of credibility?
When Mr. Hart here also condemns zionism and the country these racists founded, then I'll believe pigs can fly and this mosque is anything other than what they say it is.
The "enemy"? Who are you pointing to here?
Muslims in general it appears...because that's what you zionists preach. You HATE Islam. And pass no chance to demonize it in the name of whatever purpose is handy. Like 9/11. (Of which I believe zionism is responsible for)
It distracts people while you unfold your own agenda in the United States.
You're much further along with your's than radical Islam is with their's. Just look at our presidential cabinets.
Now I ask you people...who's more dangerous NOW? Right now?
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