Just the Facts, Imam

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But today CNN can’t fathom the media that someone would find building a house of worship offensive, particularly when it’s built next to a virtual cemetery of the victims of that particular brand of worship. Yet in 2005, CNN was willing to justify the actual destruction of a house of worship because it’s “offensive”. What a difference 5 years and a different religion makes.

But perhaps CNN could extend the same “sensitivity” they displayed for the mobs of Gaza, to their fellow Americans, who might conceivably view a mosque near Ground Zero as “a symbol of occupation”. One that would have to be taken away very sensitively. Perhaps all the way back to Mecca. Sensitively, of course.

And this wasn’t some sort of bizarre CNN fluke either. This is how Reuters gleefully painted the scene: “Attacking symbols of the hated Israeli occupation, youths set ablaze several of the synagogues.” And here’s a lovely one from the London Telegraph: “The skies were yet to be lit by the rising sun when the first flames from burning synagogues could be seen, set alight by Palestinians incensed by years when the Israeli army ruthlessly defended the settlements.” It’s amazing how much poetry is called up from the journalistic soul at the sight of burning synagogues. If you didn’t know any better, you might actually think they enjoyed seeing synagogues destroyed.

But of course that would be ridiculous. I mean just take a look at this excitable chunk of prose from Ken Ellingwood and Laurie King: “Many vented their fury over the occupation by laying waste to the synagogues that Israeli authorities chose to leave standing. At the Neve Dekalim synagogue, a hulking Star of David-shaped building visible from miles away, a club-wielding crowd had descended by early morning to smash every window and tear insulation from the walls and ceilings.” You get the feeling that Ken and Laurie would have been just as excited to be up and about during Kristallnacht. And if Ken or Laurie had decided to take a club to that hateful Star of David shaped building, surely no one would have been too surprised.

But I direct your attention to more than just the purple prose. When Ken and Laurie and CNN and Reuters and the Telegraph don’t like synagogues, then they’re “hulking”, destroying them becomes a matter of “sensitively” “taking them down” and the synagogues have it coming, because those damn Jews “chose to leave them standing.”

It’s clear that the media has no problem understanding resentment toward a “House of Worship”. As long as it’s Muslim resentment toward a non-Muslim house of worship.

The same blatant dishonesty and historical revisionism that was on display when Muslims destroyed 26 Jewish synagogues in Gaza, was also on display when Muslims destroyed 150 churches in Kosovo. Or the 170 Hindu temples destroyed in Kashmir in the last 20 years.

If a Koran falls into a toilet somewhere, it will be on the front page of the New York Times. If a 100 churches or synagogues burn, look for it somewhere on page A18, under the Grey Goose ad and just above a story about nesting pelicans in Bangalore. Three paragraphs. No photo.

Today the same people who whitewashed, excused and even celebrated the Muslim desecration and destruction of synagogues, churches and temples are absolutely shocked that anyone would object to building a mosque near Ground Zero. What kind of people would dare object to a house of worship. I mean besides Muslims anyway. It’s Un-American. And you know what is American? Putting up a massive building dedicated to an ideology of murder, where the ashes of its victims drifted on the cold September wind.

That my friends is American. Not the “American” of George Washington or Theodore Roosevelt or the firefighters and police officers who somehow made it up a hundred stories to rescue people they had never met. No, it’s the “American” of Benedict Arnold, Norman Cousins and the ACLU board of directors. And of course that great All-Time Champion of Americanism, Barack Hussein Obama. Barry, who thinks the Muslim call to prayer is the prettiest sound on earth. And the Constitution is a dim buzz in his ear.

Just the Facts, Imam. Here 3,000 Americans were murdered. For working in offices or visiting them. For being members of the NYPD or the PAPD or the FDNY. For putting on a uniform or a suit. For living their lives. And then the walls and floors and furniture around them burned. The papers in their hands burned. Their bodies burned. The ashes drifted down narrow streets. Streets where George Washington and his men once passed to visit Fraunces Tavern and toward Broadway where the Iranian hostages rode back in a ticker tape parade on their return.

Now the money that nourished their killers, will help erect a mosque. A temple of death by the ashes of the dead. And the media is outraged that we won’t allow it. That we won’t stand for it. The same media that stood and grinned while Muslims burned synagogues, churches and temples. That tells us that the Muslim terrorists who try to kill us are not really Muslims. Just going through a midlife crisis, picked up some PTSD from some bad coffee or was just having a bad day. Because we are not equal. On their farm, some animals are more equal than others. Some have the right to kill, others only have the right to be killed. Some have the right to build houses of worship, others have the right to build and to burn what others labor to build. Some have the right to be offensive, others only the right to be silent.

The dead of 9/11 are silent now. Or rather they have been silenced. As countless millions have before them were silenced. With flame and sword. In mass graves and at spearpoint. Tortured and mutilated. Torn apart with bombs. The dead cannot speak out against their murderers, but we can. The dead cannot protest, but we can. It is our duty to stand up and speak out. This is our place. Our land and our city. These are the streets where they tried to kill us. These are the streets where they will try again. To speak out is to defy those who would kill us and claim our cities as their own. Who would build monuments to their own victory over the ashes of our dead.

First they bomb. Now they occupy. We have lived through the bombing. And now we rise to defy the occupation.

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  • TG Browning

    God this is familiar. It just struck me how bloody like the press reports of the 30s this is. If you've never read George Orwell's *Homage to Catalonia*, you might like to. He does a very careful job of analyzing how the world press handled the bizarre politics of the Spanish Civil War. As far as I know, only Orwell and one Swiss journalist (Franz Borkenau) did any straight, unbiased reporting from Spain during the civil war.

    Browning>>>

    • marat1

      I read a little known passage by Orwell many years ago in which he wrote that virtually ALL Totalitarian ideologies have a similar thread running through them–each one claims to be "a perfect system." Islam, of course, is "perfection" personified, one body at a time. It would be ironic if American Liberty (which already has been compromised by Islamic threats and intimidation, were to sink to its lowest point ever, consequences of a population that sees Islam as "a religion" rather than what is before the eyes of the public–a Totalitarian and Fascist ideology that runs totally counter to the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

  • ObamaYoMoma

    Stopping the GZM doesn’t go nearly far enough. Islam must be run out of this country on the grounds that it isn’t a religion. Islam ceased being a religion after the Hijra, Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina, when it morphed into something else: a militant theo-political totalitarian ideology that seeks to subjugate the world via the imposition of sharia as its main goal.

    In addition, all of the Koran’s verses that originate from the time when Islam was a religion, per the principle of abrogation, have also been abrogated, that is superseded and replaced by the latter violent verses of the Koran that originate from after the Hijra when Islam had already morphed into a militant theo-political totalitarian ideology.

    Islam only masquerades as being a religion to infiltrate the societies that it intends to subjugate and subsume.

  • stephencuz

    Mr. Greenfield, I salute you sir. This is such a well written piece and should be shouted from the rooftops! I feel helpless in that I am removed geographically. I feel as close as a brother with you in spirit. I do agree with YoMoma as well. He hits the nail on the head. We'll never make the correction if we go after the GZM as THE issue. The real issue is Islam itself. It IS hate speech. We are Americans. We will get over hurt feelings of a location of a mosque. If that were what our issue was. But it isn't. We couldn't fight that anyway. What a waste of time it would be to pursue the religious beliefs of another as being wrong. It would get us nowhere. However, rejecting a political, socio, totalitarian system that is in direct conflict with our Constitution is not only a winnable battle but it is our duty to pursue.
    Mr. Greenfield, when the trumpets sound, count me in to stand shoulder to shoulder with you.

  • Jaladhi

    You think if this article was sent to our gloriously stupid media, they may realize how stupid they are while defending PC and multiculturalism?

    • jonmc

      The media? Don't be stupid!
      When have facts ever stood in the way of a story?
      Or truth in the way of the bias?
      Or reality in the way of perception?

  • Andres de Alamaya

    Yes, yes, yes. A perfect piece, Mr. Greenfield, in every way. And a valuable addendum by Obama YoMoma. Both need to be circulated as widely as possible. I have been upset for the past 15 hours since hearing on NBC News last night that in the past year in the U.K., the most frequently registered name for new babies has been the various spellings of Muhammad, Mohamed, etc.

  • http://apcnational.wordpress.com/ Mike in VA

    Another brilliant article by Daniel Greenfield.

    Here's another great piece he wrote about the proposed Ground Zero mosque/rabat:

    The Muslim Hijacking of Ground Zero http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2010/08/muslim-hi

  • Spider

    Can anyone answer why the entire U.S. media runs cover for Mu-slim attrocities such as you know mass murder, stonings, beheadings, treating women like beasts or church and temple destruction? This is same as defending Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot etc. I just don't get it/.

    • chiquelets

      Neither do I Spider. Muslims have immigrated into Western Europe at astounding rates, breeding like flies to the point where Muhammed is the #1 name for boys in Britiain! And the Brits have allowed Sharia Law to be legal in specific areas of the land. HUH? This 'invasion' has been calculated. Why bother sending warriors when the stupid liberals allow Muslim families to immigrate into their country, go on the dole and make no effort whatsoever to assimilate into the culture? We must never allow this to happen in the U.S., however Dearborn, Michigan, has become a frightening twin. Take a look at some art th/ parallels this… .http://fineartamerica.com/featured/america-in-chains-lee-anne-stieglitz.html. There are several other paintings on the site…look around.

      • http://www.resonoelusono.com/NaturalBornCitizen.htm Alexander Gofen

        My reply is blocked

    • http://www.resonoelusono.com/NaturalBornCitizen.htm Alexander Gofen

      Not pretending to offer the complete reply, here are several partial explanations.

      1) It is not new. They did defend Hitler and Stalin! For at least 80 years the U.S. media (and universities, some businesses and their "charities") hate the Judeo-Christian foundation of America, and by association they favor all foreign enemies who hate this foundation too. So in the 30s they favored Hitler, then – Stalin and socialism, and now Islam.

      2) Some of such fellow travellers fullheartedly loved the enemies, however the majority were just bought by the enemy. Of the three enemies mentioned above, Islam is the most incredulously rich empowered by our petrodollars. Thus Islam reinvests and literally owes our media, universities, the Department of State and part of the government.

      To survive we need a very drastic turn in our attitude: to begin with routine koran burning, and then outlaw and rid of Islam in the US totally. Nothing less would help.

    • http://www.resonoelusono.com/NaturalBornCitizen.htm Alexander Gofen

      Not pretending to offer the complete reply, here are several partial explanations.

      1) It is not new. They did defend Hitler and Stalin! For at least 80 years the U.S. media (and universities, some businesses and their "charities") hate the Judeo-Christian foundation of America, and by association they favor all foreign enemies who hate this foundation too. So in the 30s they favored Hitler, then – Stalin and socialism, and now Islam.

      2) Some of such fellow travellers fullheartedly loved the enemies, however the majority were just bought by the enemy. Of the three enemies mentioned above Islam is the most incredulously rich empowered by our petrodollars. Thus Islam reinvests and literally owes our media, universities, the Department of State and part of the government.

      To survive we need a very drastic turn in our attitude: to begin with routine burning of korans, and then outlaw and rid of Islam in the US totally. Nothing less would help.

    • David, Thailand

      Easy…the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

      Islam draws support from the Left with common political goals and ideologically driven contempt for Israel and the West. In fact, Western liberals and apologists are in many ways more toxic than fully propagandised Muslims, since they once had the capacity for free thought which they discarded in hate-fuelled fury at the very societies that gave them everything they publicly profess to treasure, which includes, paradoxically, the freedom for rational thought.

    • Ret. Marine

      In just tow words, JEW HATERS.

  • American_Flag

    Mass media with all their double standards, and the dems with their lack of accountability can all go to h*ll. All thieves and liars.

    There I said it!

    • American_Flag

      Oh, and dammitt to h*ll if you are a white christian male in this country…the media treats you with condemnation for your very existance.

      TRAVESTY!!!!

  • http://www.resonoelusono.com/NaturalBornCitizen.htm Alexander Gofen

    Not pretending to offer the complete reply to Spider, here are several partial explanations.

    1) It is not new. They did defend Hitler and Stalin! For at least 80 years the U.S. media (and universities, some businesses and their "charities") hate the Judeo-Christian foundation of America, and by association they favor all foreign enemies who hate this foundation too. So in the 30s they favored Hitler, then – Stalin and socialism, and now Islam.

    2) Some of such fellow travellers fullheartedly loved the enemies, however the majority were just bought by the enemy. Of the three enemies mentioned above Islam is the most incredulously rich empowered by our petrodollars. Thus Islam reinvests and literally owes our media, universities, the Department of State and part of the government.

    To survive we need a very drastic turn in our attitude: to begin with routine burning of korans, and then outlaw and rid of Islam in the US totally. Nothing less would help.

  • waterwillows

    You don't need rocket science to view the hundreds, maybe thousands, of videos on the web where the muslims condemn the western media. The media has pandered to Islam and made itself the target. Whenever muslims look about and see a weakness; that is always the place they will destroy and attack. In their eyes any sign of being weak is 'asking' for your death. Hence we have numerous videos suggesting just that.
    So I fully expect that the media will reap what they have sown. Notice how they hate Obama? He is viewed as a weakling by our enemies.

  • olustee

    Islam is a culture of thugs–if you want to understand how it works, watch The Sopranos. Liberals are religious illiterates, which is why they can't see through Islamist posturings. What really gets to me is how swiftly they have taken the measure of how much America's constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms can be manipulated. What we need systematic confrontations "on the street" with these people: talk to them in their faces, never accept a thing they say without a sharp, in-your-face-reply, make them mad, make them so mad that they can't help screaming–for the benefit of the watching media–their hatred for America. A smiling Imam needs to have the smilie wiped off his face, and that publicly, too.

  • http://mypage.direct.ca/l/lbouchar/ SeaMystic

    Thank you for the great article.
    We must save the names and articles of the Leftist media for future charges of Treason, while our societies are at War against Islam.

    For the Liberal Left who support Islam, do you have any children you wish to offer, in supporting Mohammeds Paedophilic dogma? After all Mohammed was the most noble of all men.

    check: http://www.petiononline.com/MYSTIC/petition.html

  • Ret. Marine

    I thoroughly enjoyed the article, and cannot find an item in disagreement. Its really sad for the media, but the media is not the media many of us grew up with, you like telling just the facts, and leaving the personal opinions out of the facts, like, telling the history as it happened, not the way they wished for it to happen, or event he actual reason for the event.
    I literally have to explain to my grandchildren, almost on a daily basis, the who, why . and when of almost every article they come in contact with, as they are not sufficiently informed in regards to history, opinions, and why these opinions are even allowed to enter into a given subject. This is truly disturbing, the daily diatribes of certain individuals and their hatred. One day though, I suspect all of this hatred is going to eat them up to the point of irrelevancy, if it has not already.

  • bubba4

    "But the media still insists that Islam had nothing to do with 9/11. Or if it had anything to do with 9/11, it was those “other Muslims,” not these Muslims."

    I think the difference of worldview would be that while most people realize that the 9/11 Hijackers were Islamic extremists. I think they are trying not to make all Muslims everywhere responsible for it…they may not agree with FPM that all Muslims are automatically killing robots bent by blood and destiny to destroy all that we love.

    But instead of just admitting this simple fact…you pretend the argument is something else entirely…

  • http://www.novelgraphicnovels.com Steve Edward

    You want to know why the press sides with Muslims and against what ever Israel does?

    That’s easy!! The Media has major Muslim share holders who also have a choke hole on America’s Oil Supply.

    In this context, can 300 million American dispense with 3 million Israelis?

    You fill in the blank_____________

  • Naveed

    It is well obvious from above comments that you all are very extremist in your thoughts… and well feeded with propoganda against Islam. Islam is a true religion and thats why it is the fastest growing religion in USA and Eorope. Sooner or later you all will come to know about reality as this life is very short….. Islam rules in the heart of majority of people in this world who live to please God and spread the message of peace among mankind. You have blood of millions on your hand in WWI, WWII, Iraq, Afg and so many other parts of the world. You will never found any such incident in Islamic history. There is no escape to reality, just require willingness to see it.