The Last American Mosque
The controversial mosque
The New Blinking Mosque
The New Mosque
The Church That Looks Like A Mosque
"The Last Chimurenga"
It was bound to happen. By that I mean the changing relationship between America and the rest of the Muslim world.
The 9/11 attack was the turning point. But like everything about America, the ideal went to war with the reality. Now, it looks like reality is winning.
The ideal is that the 9/11 attack was orchestrated by some extreme elements from the Islamic world and as such there should be no backlash on majority of Muslims who are peace loving and law abiding.
Well, that can only be true for a while. Soon, more questions get asked. And some uncomfortable answers are bound to come out.
As long as the war continues, the war against Al Qaeda or the one against Islam, depending on where you stand, we are bound to get to several turning points.
Until the recent plan to build a mosque or is it an Islamic center, near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan attracted protests, nobody noticed that such protests have been going on in places like Tennessee, Milwaukee and California. The American people are wary about having Mosques built in their neighborhood.
More and more Americans are saying, “Not in my neighborhood.” In this season of taking our America back, it fits in perfectly.
Some Americans are beginning to associate mosques with violent Islam.
It is no longer enough for the American government to tell the people that Iraq must be attacked when most of the men who attacked the World Trade Center on 9/11 came from Saudi Arabia.
The ideals are collapsing under the weight of the reality. Americans are tired of being asked to live by example if all that it invites is more of the same scorn and attack. They are saying to hell with religious tolerance. To hell with the Constitution. To hell with inalienable rights.
These are scary times.
It is time for the majority of Muslims who are peace loving and law abiding to do more about what is going on around them and around their religion. For if they do not, and another group attacks the United States under the name of Islam, that day, the last American Mosque would have been built.
