Upon reading the article entitled, “A call to build” in Sunday’s paper, I found myself both angry and perplexed. When reading that “Members of the Greater Manchester Interfaith Council are hoping that area churchgoers will pitch in to help build New Hampshire’s first mosque,” I nearly fell off my chair. Why would they do such a thing? Time after time, each occurrence of successful or thwarted terror strikes have a common ingredient: a mosque with radicalized members and “imams”- so-called “holy” men. Knowing this, why would we want something like this here in NH? How many mosques have been used throughout the Moslem world as ammo dumps and hideouts for murderous thugs?The new world war that we find ourselves fighting is against a radical fascist ideology, much like Nazism- only worse. The Germans found their wellspring of support generated from hyper-nationalism and racism, fueled by a charismatic leader. Today’s enemy, the so-called “Islamo- fascists,” have added a final and nearly unstoppable feature to the totalitarian mix: religious fervor. Can you imagine the thought of a Hitler Youth Summer camp somewhere in Manchester circa 1943-44? Such a notion sounds utterly ridiculous, right?
The article quotes a local Muslim as hoping that the Interfaith Council’s help in constructing the mosque will help to “open up the minds of the others that don’t know anything of our religion and that have this idea of relating Muslims to terrorists.” Gee, I wonder where such a silly notion like that came from? How dare they have this “idea” of associating terrorism with Muslims! Don’t they know it’s the “religion of peace?” As for the Interfaith Council, they should consider as their next project constructing a Church for Christians and a Synagogue for Jews, with Muslim help, of course, somewhere in the heart of the Islamic world. You know, so that people of THOSE faiths can have a place to worship in over there in THAT part of the world. Make sure you include good washable tiles in order to make cleanup after the beheadings quick and easy…I sure hope that as a practicing Churchgoer here in NH, none of MY money is making its way to this potentially dangerous project. After September 11th, 2001, ask me if I really care whether I might offend some of NH’s Muslim population. The article says that they (local NH Muslims) “try to speak out against Islamic extremists within their own communities.” Really? How can they “try” to speak against something they continually tell us does not exist? *
Some Granite Staters want nothing to do with a dedicated place for Muslims to pray in New Hampshire. In the age of terrorism, Gilford resident Doug Lambert compared putting a mosque in Manchester to locating a Hitler youth summer camp here during the Holocaust. "How many mosques have been used throughout the (Muslim) world as ammo dumps and hideouts for murderous thugs?" he wrote the New Hampshire Sunday News.
In a phone interview last week, Lambert pointed to investigations that have connected terrorists to mosques. "When you look at what’s happening in other parts of the world, mosques seem to be the center of their army," he said.
As I noted in this previous posting, there’s always a mosque. That’s where the radical ideology gets spread. Our enemies don’t need to send their armies- all they do is send the ideology and spread it to receptive minds already here. There is potential for the rise of so-called "homegrown" terrorists that need not worry about how to sneak into the country- they’re already here. The president of the state’s Islamic society didn’t say much to change my mind:
Mahboubul Hassan, president of the Islamic Society of Greater Manchester, said the Manchester mosque under construction will be a place of religious worship as well as a place for community gatherings, he said. A board of trustees, now made up of nine members including himself, decides who will be in control of the mosque and would take action if problems developed. "I always believe either extreme is not acceptable," Hassan said.
He said he hopes the mosque won’t contain radicals. "If there are, they’re not in policy making. Everyone has a right to voice whatever opinion they have," he said.
