{"id":7039,"date":"2010-09-11T13:36:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T17:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2010-09-12T22:19:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T02:19:47","slug":"ground-zero-imam-threatens-violence-if-opposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7039\/ground-zero-imam-threatens-violence-if-opposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Zero Imam Threatens Violence If Opposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Wednesday night interview with CNN\u2019s Soledad O\u2019Brien, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf engaged in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/claudiarosett\/2010\/09\/10\/if-we-dont-build-it-they-will-kill-you\/?boxes=opinionschannellatest \" target=\"_blank\">following exchange<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked if it\u2019s really a good idea to go ahead with his plans to build a mosque and Islamic center at an address so close to Ground Zero that it has become a flash point, Rauf gave a reply that boils down to a threat. Rauf said that if his Cordoba House does not get built on his chosen site near Ground Zero, \u201cThe headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing\u00a0Muslim attacks on Danish embassies during the riots in 2006 over Mohamed cartoons Rauf went on to say that the result of this current \u201ccrisis\u201d could be that \u201canger will explode in the Muslim world.\u201d That, he said, could lead to \u201csomething which could really become very, very, very\u00a0dangerous indeed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Forbes<\/em> columnist Claudia Rosett rightfully argues that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/claudiarosett\/2010\/09\/10\/if-we-dont-build-it-they-will-kill-you\/?boxes=opinionschannellatest \" target=\"_blank\">Rauf\u2019s position amounts to blackmail<\/a>: either let me build my $100 million mosque at Ground Zero or risk other attacks.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of hand wringing has been indulged making this decision primarily one about prudence instead of law.\u00a0 That\u2019s silly.\u00a0 The Ground Zero mosque isn\u2019t about the First Amendment; it\u2019s about national security.\u00a0 Rauf just admitted as much with his threat of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Constitution requires the U.S. government to protect citizens from enemies; both foreign and domestic.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to stop acting like the Constitution handcuffs America into ceding our land to a man fronting a group \u2013 Cordoba House \u2013 whose name recalls the farthest Islamic expansion in European territory.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re better than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Wednesday night interview with CNN\u2019s Soledad O\u2019Brien, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf engaged in the following exchange: Asked if it\u2019s really a good idea to go ahead with his plans to build a mosque and Islamic center at an address so close to Ground Zero that it has become a flash point, Rauf gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1825,1824,1715,1709,1826,536],"class_list":["post-7039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-claudia-roset","tag-forbes","tag-ground-zero-mosque","tag-islam","tag-september-11","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7047,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions\/7047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}