What a Coincidence

Do you see a trend here?

The Cordoba Project is partially being promoted as a monument to the three thousand who perished in the World Trade towers that fateful September morn. Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, maintains that Muslims associated with the Cordoba Initiative intended only "to look at the legacy of 9/11 and do something positive." Khan claims the American Society for Muslim Advancement represents moderate Muslims who want "to reverse the trend of extremism and the kind of ideology that the extremists are spreading."

In addition to portraying it as a memorial bridge between faiths, defenders of the mosque maintain that building a house of worship on private property is an exercise of the constitutional right that grants freedom of religion to all Americans.

The site where three thousand perished is revered and consecrated by the blood of the dead. Regardless of "moderate Muslim" intentions, Americans view the site of the 9-11 massacre as sacredly significant. In essence, lower Manhattan is a burial ground where the unearthed remains of many still reside.

Muslims who insist on placing a mosque so close to holy ground, which would not exist but for the murderous aggression committed by Muslim warriors, is eerily reminiscent of acts of dominance carried out from age to age by Islamic conquerors.

In 630 AD, Muslims captured Islam's holiest city, Mecca. It was there that a mosque was erected at the Ka'aba on the site of a building built by Abraham, the Judeo-Christian Old Testament father of faith. Muslims honor Patriarch Abraham for siring desert-dweller Ishmael, son of slave woman Hagar. Muslims claimed Abraham for Islam by building a mosque around the original Abrahamic structure, encircling the building and calling it the Masjid al-Haram.

In the 7^th century, when Islam triumphed over Damascus, the Church of Saint John the Baptist (believed to enshrine the head of the baptizer) was destroyed and replaced with a mosque. Legend has it that "Under the Umayyad caliph Al-Walid the church was demolished ... [and] Al-Walid himself initiated the demolition by driving a golden spike into the church."


Most notably, the struggle for religious dominance continues between the Muslims and the Jewish seed of Isaac on what was once the Jewish Temple Mount, site of Solomon's Temple. The Muslim descendants of Ishmael, after conquering Jerusalem in 638 AD, turned the temple into a Muslim shrine. The infamous holy place called the Dome of the Rock is situated in close proximity to the highly revered Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Around 700 AD, in Cordoba, Spain, after Muslims conquered the Visigothic kingdom, Emir Abd ar-Rahman I took possession of the Church of St. Vincent, and for the next two centuries, what was once a Christian church was transformed into the Great Mosque of Cordoba.

Before the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Byzantine church of Hagia Sophia was the "center of Eastern Christianity." The Ottoman conquest initiated the "era of Islamic worship in the holy structure, which Mehmed II converted into a mosque immediately after his conquest."