Imam Rauf's World Trade Center Conquest Imagery

Andrew G. Bostom   "The Call of Azan from the Rubble of the World Trade Center: Islamic Da'wa in the Heart of America Post-9/11"."The recent solemn tenth anniversary of the acts of jihad terrorism on 9/11/2001, juxtaposed to such triumphal Islamic imagery, should remind us forever of Rauf's conquering mentality, notwithstanding his false, if treacly and oft-repeated claims of "ecumenism"."

The azan is the muezzin's call to prayer. It consists of a number of sentences repeated several times: "Allahu Akbar," the Shahada (la ilaha illa Allah wa-Muhammad rasoul Allah - "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His Messenger") and the phrase "Gather for prayer." It is noteworthy that, in the period of Muslim conquests in the first centuries of Islam, this call was made from newly conquered sites.....

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Mosque site picked for 'iconic' value;  Compares situation to al-Aqsa mosque on Temple Mount in Jerusalem   "The idea here that will be widely understood is that this mosque is another triumphal mosque, another victory mosque [like] the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque on the site of the Temple Mount and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus," Spencer told WND today."

I cannot express how much distaste there is for me in the World Trade Center memorial site; it is a monument to victory for Islamic radicals. They can admire the two gaping holes at the site and proudly proclaim "we did this!" Then they can walk down the street to the triumphal mosque for prayers to Allah.

I like the Pentagon; the way it was immediately restored to the way it was. It said to the murderers, "see how little your deaths meant? It is as if it never happened!"
But then they built the memorial to the flight path of the hijacked plane and now the Islamists have another trophy to show off.  TD