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?
Terrorism solved. It’s the stereotyping, stupid!
In this prior posting , I reported on an assistant professor here in a NH college who believes that terrorism can be solved if only we would move away from our stereotypes and start seeing each other as human beings, and learn to empathize. It appears this silliness is not confined to some nutty professor at … Read more