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From Charles Krauthammer:
- Islamic Museum To Be Built On Site Of Failed Ground Zero Mosque
From the New York Post: The developer of the failed Ground Zero Mosque has nailed down “Sharia-compliant financing” for a new, luxury condominium tower and Islamic cultural museum on the same site, he and his banking partners said Wednesday. The...
- No Sir, The Strippers And Lap Dances Are In The Joshua Chamberlain Memorial Bar
I see it and read it but I don't believe it. Civil War preservation group backs Gettysburg casinoAugust 17, 2010 Evan Haning, wtop.com WASHINGTON - Proponents of a project to convert Gettysburg's Eisenhower Conference Center...
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty Slams Ground Zero Mosque, Says it Would be Unpatriotic of Muslims to Build on “Hallowed and Sacred Ground” From Weasel Zippers: The controversy over a proposed mosque near New York’s ground zero memorial hit Minnesota...
- Winds Of War: How The War Against Islamism Will Last 70 Years – And They Win
UK Home Secretary John Reid, Newt Gingrich, and the Pentagon have all chimed in over the last few months stating that the misnamed ‘war on terror’ will last a generation or so. To quote Gingrich: Americans must steel themselves for a long and...
- Winds Of War: Why We Won’t Admit Why We Fight
In a recent post at Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer said “Five years after Pearl Harbor, the war was over. The Third Reich was kaput. The Japanese were vanquished as well. But five years and counting after 9/11, there is no victory in sight. There is not...
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Sacrilege at Ground Zero
From Charles Krauthammer:
A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of great nobility and sacrifice (Gettysburg), or by the blood of martyrs and the indescribable suffering of the innocent (Auschwitz).Go read the whole thing.
When we speak of Ground Zero as hallowed ground, what we mean is that it belongs to those who suffered and died there -- and that such ownership obliges us, the living, to preserve the dignity and memory of the place, never allowing it to be forgotten, trivialized or misappropriated.
That's why Disney's 1993 proposal to build an American history theme park near Manassas Battlefield was defeated by a broad coalition that feared vulgarization of the Civil War (and that was wiser than me; at the time I obtusely saw little harm in the venture). It's why the commercial viewing tower built right on the border of Gettysburg was taken down by the Park Service. It's why, while no one objects to Japanese cultural centers, the idea of putting one up at Pearl Harbor would be offensive.
And why Pope John Paul II ordered the Carmelite nuns to leave the convent they had established at Auschwitz. He was in no way devaluing their heartfelt mission to pray for the souls of the dead. He was teaching them a lesson in respect: This is not your place; it belongs to others. However pure your voice, better to let silence reign.
- Islamic Museum To Be Built On Site Of Failed Ground Zero Mosque
From the New York Post: The developer of the failed Ground Zero Mosque has nailed down “Sharia-compliant financing” for a new, luxury condominium tower and Islamic cultural museum on the same site, he and his banking partners said Wednesday. The...
- No Sir, The Strippers And Lap Dances Are In The Joshua Chamberlain Memorial Bar
I see it and read it but I don't believe it. Civil War preservation group backs Gettysburg casinoAugust 17, 2010 Evan Haning, wtop.com WASHINGTON - Proponents of a project to convert Gettysburg's Eisenhower Conference Center...
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty Slams Ground Zero Mosque, Says it Would be Unpatriotic of Muslims to Build on “Hallowed and Sacred Ground” From Weasel Zippers: The controversy over a proposed mosque near New York’s ground zero memorial hit Minnesota...
- Winds Of War: How The War Against Islamism Will Last 70 Years – And They Win
UK Home Secretary John Reid, Newt Gingrich, and the Pentagon have all chimed in over the last few months stating that the misnamed ‘war on terror’ will last a generation or so. To quote Gingrich: Americans must steel themselves for a long and...
- Winds Of War: Why We Won’t Admit Why We Fight
In a recent post at Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer said “Five years after Pearl Harbor, the war was over. The Third Reich was kaput. The Japanese were vanquished as well. But five years and counting after 9/11, there is no victory in sight. There is not...