No Mosque at "Ground Zero"

No Mosque at "Ground Zero"

I am disturbed at all of this talk about the Muslims wanting to build a mosque at “Ground Zero”. To do such a thing is extremely insensitive, if not outright – in your face – offensive to those who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001.

While we consider that most Muslims in the United States don’t engage in terror and many probably do not condone such behavior, to have a mosque so close to where a few extremist Muslim terrorists committed such a serious atrocity against the citizens of the United States is more of an endorsement of their religion and a disregard for the lives of those who were murdered by the extremists. Allowing a mosque condones their act of violence against non-Muslims.

If the Muslims need to have a mosque, let them find somewhere closer to where they live and farther away from where extremists from their religion attacked private citizens of the United States. A mosque at “Ground Zero” would appear to condone, and even honor, what members of their religion did. There is no separating that connection.

Christians never endorsed violence as a way or propagating their religious views. Christians evangelize by love and gentle persuasion, not threat of murder if you don’t convert. That is a sharp contrast to the Muslim’s way of conversion.

To double the hypocrisy of the decision makers in New York, the Greek Orthodox church that was destroyed by the Trade Center collapse has not been allowed to rebuild their church, but the city wants to approve a mosque. Something is not right about this scenario. The Greeks should have had their building approved and rebuilt by now, yet are being denied while Muslims are being given the city’s approval.

Another equation in this entire discussion is the determining of moral absolutes. God determines what is right or wrong. Much of the reasoning behind the pending mosque is because some government leaders have forgotten God and decided that they can decide what is right or wrong for themselves and others.

I believe that all Christians should stand beside the Greek Orthodox’s desire to rebuild and insist that the Muslims relocate to a less sensitive area.

God will bless America only as long as America blesses God.