An interesting thought

Came up in conversation today with my Acupuncturist. The Islamists and Progressives want to build a large Mosque a few blocks away from the site of the World Trade Center. They are calling it the C�rdoba Initiative and blathering about how -- well, I'll let the website speak for itself:

Improving Muslim-West Relations
C�rdoba Initiative seeks to actively promote engagement through a myriad of programs, by reinforcing similarities and addressing differences.

What is really interesting is that if you know your history; C�rdoba is a city in Spain that spent about 100 years under Muslim rule. The progressives paint this as a glorious time in history but for non-Muslims, life was miserable. The Muslims conquered that part of Spain, they tore down the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption and built their Mosque as an assertion of their triumph and dominion. At the end of the 100 years (from this Wikipedia article):

The Caliphate was practically disintegrated due to civil war (fitna) between descendants of the last legitimate Caliph Hisham II and the successors of his prime minister (hayib) Al-Mansur. The shell of the Caliphate existed until 1031 when, after years of infighting, it fractured into a number of independent Taifa kingdoms.

So anyway, planting a great Mosque nearly on top of the ruins of the greatest recent terrorist attack by Muslims neatly fits in to this C�rdoba mythos -- Muslims are a nostalgic people. They had their heyday and they want to return to it, even though they could only keep it together for 100+ years. And that was 1,000 years ago. Jump to today. There is a big outcry against building this Mosque and "Cultural Center". Recent polls show 70% opposed. The progressives are saying that people need to be more culturally aware and accepting. The key word is "tolerance". Segue to Florida. The moke down there, Rev. Jones who plans to burn a copy of the Koran this Saturday. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth down in Progressive-ville. The conversation today -- Gee... Why aren't these people a bit more tolerant. (rim shot)