http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/08/fitzgerald-islams-double-faced-triumphalism-destruction-and-mosque-building.html
Words aside, even the mosque's scheduled opening date-9/11/2011-has two
aspects: to Americans, opening the mosque on 9/11 is to proclaim a new
beginning with the Muslim world on the ten-year anniversary of the worst
terror strikes on American soil; however, it just so happens that
Koranic verse 9:111 is one of the loftiest calls for suicidal
jihad-believers are exhorted to "kill and be killed"-and is probably the
reason al-Qaeda originally chose that date to strike.
http://thenationalscene.com/ground-mosque-hidden-meaning-america-islam/
Of course, that Osama bin Laden-slayer of 3,000 Americans and avowed
enemy to the rest-exhibits two faces, one to Americans another to
Muslims, is not surprising. Yet the reader may well be surprised to
discover that the controversial Cordoba Initiative, which plans on
manifesting itself as the largest American mosque, situated atop Ground
Zero-that is, atop the carnage caused by none other than bin Laden-also
has two faces, conveying one thing to Americans, quite another to
Muslims.
The very name of the initiative itself, "Cordoba," offers different
connotations to different people: In the West, the Andalusian city of
Cordoba is regularly touted as the model of medieval Muslim
progressiveness and tolerance for Christians and Jews. To many
Americans, then, the choice to name the mosque "Cordoba" is suggestive
of rapprochement and interfaith dialogue; atop the rubble of 9/11, it
implies "healing"-a new beginning between Muslims and Americans. The
Cordoba Initiative's mission statement certainly suggests as much:
Cordoba Initiative aims to achieve a tipping point in Muslim-West
relations within the next decade, bringing back the atmosphere of
interfaith tolerance and respect that we have longed for since Muslims,
Christians and Jews lived together in harmony and prosperity eight
hundred years ago.
Oddly enough, the so-called "tolerant" era of Cordoba supposedly
occurred during the caliphate of 'Abd al-Rahman III (912-961)-well over
a thousand years ago. "Eight hundred years ago," i.e., around 1200, the
fanatical Almohids-ideological predecessors of al-Qaeda-were ravaging
Cordoba, where "Christians and Jews were given the choice of conversion,
exile, or death."
A Freudian slip on the part of the Cordoba Initiative?
At any rate, the true history of Cordoba, not to mention the whole of
Andalusia, is far less inspiring than what Western academics portray:
the Christian city was conquered by Muslims around 711, its inhabitants
slaughtered or enslaved. The original mosque of Cordoba-the namesake of
the Ground Zero mosque-was built atop, and partly from the materials of,
a Christian church. Modern day Muslims are well aware of all this. Such
is the true-and ominous-legacy of Cordoba.
More pointedly, throughout Islam's history, whenever a region was
conquered, one of the first signs of consolidation was/is the erection
of a mosque atop the sacred sites of the vanquished: the pagan Ka'ba
temple in Arabia was converted into Islam's holiest site, the mosque of
Mecca; the al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest site, was built atop
Solomon's temple in Jerusalem; the Umayyad mosque was built atop the
Church of St. John the Baptist; and the Hagia Sophia was converted into
a mosque upon the conquest of Constantinople.
Some final thoughts on the history of Cordoba and the ominous parallels
it bodes for America: though many Christian regions were conquered by
Islam prior to Cordoba, its conquest signified the first time a truly
"Western" region was conquered by the sword of Islam. It was also used
as a base to launch further attacks into the heart of Europe (until
decisively beaten at the Battle of Tours), just as, perhaps, the largest
mosque in America will be used as a base to subvert the rest of the
United States. And, the sacking of the original Cordoba was facilitated
by an insider traitor-a warning to the U.S., which seems to have no end
of traitors and willing lackeys.
Such, then, is the dual significance of the Cordoba Initiative: What
appears to many Americans as a gesture of peace and interfaith dialogue,
is to Muslims allusive of Islamist conquest and consolidation; mosques,
which Americans assume are Muslim counterparts to Christian
churches-that is, places where altruistic Muslims congregate and pray
for world peace and harmony-are symbols of domination and centers of
radicalization; the numbers of the opening date, 9/11/11, appear to
Americans as commemorative of a new beginning, whereas the Koranic
significance of those numbers is suicidal jihad. Of course, the two
faces of the Cordoba House should not be surprising considering that the
man behind the initiative, Feisal Abdul Rauf, also has two faces.
Going along with the historic analogy, there is one bit of good news: As
opposed to the vast majority of onetime Western/Christian nations
annexed by Islam, Cordoba, Spain did ultimately manage to overthrow the
Islamic yoke. Though only after some 700 years of occupation.
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