Comments on: The Cordoba House and the Caliphate

By: chairwoman

chairwoman — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:41:47 +0000

What was the Mayor thinking of? No, don’t tell me.

Surely the face-saving way out of this would have been to say that no ‘religious’ buildings would be built in that area.

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:56:17 +0000

If Muslims can be insensitive and arrogant twits, by building a triumphalist mosque near the site of the WTC, then we should answer them in their own idiom.

If this “Cordoba House” goes through and is built I propose that we erect, directly acorss the street from its main entrance, a monument to the memory of the people murdered on 9/11 by jihadists and to stand as a warning to Muslims of what will happen to them if they continue this jihad against Western Civilization: A pyramid of skulls. Just in case any visiting Muslims are too obtuse to get the reference (and few of them will be so obtuse) we should rename the place “Hulegu Square.”

By: Soccerdad

Soccerdad — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:41:20 +0000

Meryl, more than that. The WaPo in its editorial today cited Cordoba as an example of how Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together peacefully for 800 years!

FALSE.

The Rambam and his family were forced to flee Cordoba somewhere in the mid 12th century CE. Given that Islam had only been around for 400 or so years at that point, that marked the end of peaceful coexistence about 400 years short of the Post’s assertion.

But worse the whole reason the Jews (and Christians) had to leave Cordoba was because the Almohads, from northern Africa conquered the area and gave the dhimmi the option of converting or dying. So Jews and Christian preferred to leave. If this is the coexistence that Rauf aspires to, I don’t think that any of the criticisms of his venture are misplaced.

By: Tom Frank

Tom Frank — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:33:50 +0000

I’m certain they would tell you they were simply naming it for a fine 1970’s Chrysler product.

And there are plenty who would believe that…

By: Reader

Reader — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:20:10 +0000

I believe there is more than what you say in this name. You’ll need to doublecheck this, but from what I understand, Cordoba is the name of a mosque built in Spain to celebrate the conquering of Spain. Also, it is a muslim tradition to build a mosque where territory has been conquered.

I suppose that since a piece of a 911 airplane fell right on the proposed Mosque’s site, this is as close as muslims can come to building a triumph mosque on Ground Zero.

This is a triumph mosque and it’s location may be what is making foreign money available for its construction.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:47:23 +0000

There is nothing moderate regarding Islam.