A warning to America about Islam and the mosque at Ground Zero

It says a lot about the people behind this scheme that they had the bad taste even to propose building a mosque in such a place but to describe it, as they have, as a tribute to the victims is beyond bad taste and shows a profound contempt for those who died.

It would be hard to imagine a more provocative gesture short of standing on their graves and burning the American flag. Yet, how typical of Islam, with its own hair-trigger sensitivity to the slightest imagined insult, to do something so arrogant and so insensitive.

Any religion that endorses violence is incapable of delivering spiritual enlightenment. How obvious does that have to be? And it has no right even to call itself a religion. Without the shield of religion to hide behind Islam would be banned in the civilized world as a political ideology of hate and we have no obligation to make allowances for it any more than we do for Nazism.

It’s a bigger threat to our freedom than Nazism ever was. Yes, both are totalitarian and both divide the world unnecessarily into “us” and “them”, the pure and the impure, and both make no secret of their desire to exterminate the Jews. But we were all more of less on the same side against the Nazis whereas the Islamo-Nazis have got plenty of friends among people in the West who ought to know better.

Need a reminder: