Disingenuous To Consider It Hallowed or Sacred Ground
Maybe he hasn't really had a chance to read much American history. Certainly getting to Imam level and being issued a rug, a collar-less shirt and a pair of shoes with the heels broken down for easy entry and exit five times a day leaves little time for boning up on the local culture. There are a few documents I would suggest for him before his next pronouncements. Certainly our Constitution and Declaration of Independence are required as well as a cursory glance at the Federalist Papers and some De Tocqueville would help. Then there's this short little blurb which comprises about three quarters of one of America's most famous speeches:
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Those three thousand people weren't intending to be warriors on that morning when they went to work. Before the morning coffee had grown cold they were shedding their blood in one of the most remarkable events of our lifetimes. They died in what is undeniably a war, Imam Rauf, and that war was initiated by your brethren. Do not try to downplay that episode.
Please, do not dare to try to explain to us the nuances of what you call sacred ground.
3 comments:
First, you have to hold life sacred in order to understand hallowed ground...from what I've witnessed of Rauf's ilk he doesn't have a chance of understanding.
Rauf is clearly a provocateur, and clearly there is something fishy about this whole mosque issue.
But what is the endgame?
Could it be the political class seeking to dominate the country class?
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the
I haven't seen those words in many a year but in reading them, they were already inside my brain and coming out to meet what my eyes were seeing on the computer screen. Then I remembered having to memorize the Gettysburg Address in either Jr High or High School. I wonder if any schools require this sort of thing now.
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