Daniel Pipes RIGHT AGAIN! Islamic triumphalism is rampant .

Submitted by Carmen Waggoner (United States), Aug 16, 2010 at 17:01

Dr. Pipes, you were right in your article of 1/9/07, in which you describe the "unprecedented move...[of] Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer [who] turned down a Saudi request to send funds to help the Islamic Society of South Australia build a new mosque in Park Holme, a southern suburb of Adelaide.... in the context of concerns that funding from the Middle East would help spawn radical Islam." You quoted A. Downer : "Obviously we don't want to see any extremist organisation penetrate into Australia". I agree with your comment that "This extraordinary step needs to be studied and emulated elsewhere, (January 9, 2007)." Likewise, I agree with you today, in your latest article regarding "Islamic triumphalism" and "More importantly, Abdul Rauf's dubious background and associations [which] give reason to worry that this center [a mosque near Ground Zero] give reason to worry that this center will spread Islamist ideology. Therefore it should be barred from opening".

Muslims built mosques in Spain upon the very Christian churches they destroyed in order to display their triumph over Christianity, such as in Granada. These mosques had to be taller than any other non-Muslem houses of worship; I witnessed this fact fourty-four years ago, when I visited this part of Spain. It is time to put an end to the cliche that "History repeats itself..." I agree with Switzerland, which banned more minarets on its soil, and hope the same will occur in the United States. I also deplore the demeaning treatment of Muslim women forced to wear the burka and submit to male domination in every aspect of their life, forcing vaginal mutilation on girls, as well as the cruelty of death by stoning of women, accused of infidelity, even when the accusation is a lie....This should not happen on American soil; when it does, it should be punished by death, similar to the punishment terrorists who attack our citizens on our soil should receive from our American tribunals. This has not happened yet in the U.S. Why should Americans receive death sentences in their own country, while foreign terrorists continue to live here at the charge of US Citizens? Likewise, I refuse to contribute funds, to "non-profit" houses of prayer that are mosques.

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