...And So It Begins

By Semperpapa

Or more pertinently, it continues. The blitzkrieg of deception radical Islamists have been pursuing for the last three decades or so is back in full swing fueled by the controversy over the building of the mosque near Ground Zero.

The project, which was initially named Cordoba Initiative until the duplicity of significance of such name became known among the dormant American masses, was surely not intended to gain so much publicity across the whole country. Park 51, as it is known these days in the attempt to give it a more New York elite connotation, was most likely intended to be one of those under the radar activities that the Muslim forces of subversion was going to just sneak through the legal underground of New York political scene until the whole thing was far along enough that reversing it was going to be all but impossible.
Mayor Bloomberg, who is clearly set to benefit enormously from the realization of the project, failed to keep the actions of his office and the various commissions involved under wrap.

But this is not just about the mosque near Ground Zero. This is about the insidious activities that radical Muslims have been conducted in our country unopposed for so long.
In the process of conquest, one of the most important strategies of the radical Islamist is the ability to operate without raising much interest and/or suspicion among the American people. Achieving success without fanfare is at the core of the movement directed at slowly eroding the very fibers of our society.

As much as the American people have to endure the appearance of spokespeople from organizations like CAIR (Council of American-Islamic Relations) on the screens of our News outlets, the work that organizations like CAIR have done has remained fairly unknown to the vast majority of the people, and certainly by design.

Even the true significance of the initial name of the mosque project, Cordoba Initiative, escaped the majority of the American people, who naturally may not be overly informed about historical events in Spain dating back centuries, and it is thanks to the power of the internet and the extreme knowledge of historians like Victor Davis Hanson and authors like David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry that the average American has access to information which hopefully generates the feeling of concern necessary to safeguard our Republic.

The rejection of projects like the Ground Zero mosque goes beyond the political schism that we are witnessing today n America, as shown by an overwhelming 70% of the American people opposed to such project. So the protest is, or at least should be, not guided by political ideologies, but by common sense, decency and compassion.

On the part of the radical Muslims who are pushing for the project realization, we are seeing a valiant attempt to silence public opinion by using the methodology that has worked in the past for them and for many other ethnic issues: political correctness.
Just as the Muslim community benefited from the obsession of the American people for political correctness in the wake of the 9-11 attacks, the intention today is to try to revert to the same tactics of inculcating in the minds of the American people that opposition to the project is based on pure Islamophobia and religious intolerance. Some Americans are falling prey of such tactic, but the vast majority is not.
Representatives from CAIR try to find every microphone available to launch their accusatory invectives against those who they consider to be on an anti-Muslim crusade, leveling accusation of religious discrimination against every American who dares to take the position contrary to their agenda.
As an example, this is what Daisy Khan, wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, stated on an ABC program:
"We are deeply concerned, because this is like a metastasized antisemitism, It's beyond Islamophobia. It's hate of Muslims."
I find interesting that Ms. Khan would actually use the term ‘anti-Semitism’, which describes activities aimed against Jews. The subterfuge of that parallel is obvious: it is known that the history of the Holocaust is still conjuring up negative feelings among Americans, so by associating dissent against their project with anti-Semitism, there is an underlining attempt to appeal to a more politically correct look at the issue.

What we are also witnessing today, as the patience of the common American appears to grow increasingly thin, is the attempt to politicize the issue on the part of the Media.
Up until the time President Obama came out with his veiled support of the mosque, the national media had steered clear of the controversy for the major part. But as the President made his outrageous remarks in front of a group of Muslims celebrating Ramadan, dissent from the American people to his stand forced the MSM to immediately step up the protective shield for Obama. And the defense is brutal.
The least accusation is of Islamophobia, and it goes down from there.

But for the MSM, the most important concern is to shore up Obama’s approval rating among Americans, which has been steadily taking a severe beating in the last few weeks. Obama’s stand on the mosque issue has only aggravated the situation, making the job of the President’s apologists that much more difficult and desperate.

What the American people must realize is that radical Islam is working its magic to slowly subvert every belief that we may hold dear by using our own Constitution, which they are aiming at replacing with Shariah law, and the ever-present sense of tolerance typical of American society.
Islam is working through deception and subterfuge, hiding behind legitimate legal statutes, at times, while actively trying to destroy the same.
Only vigilance and activism in the name of American core values and interests will prevail against the forces of death and subjugation championed by radical Islamists.

Just my thoughts!