We know that Christianity is a faith which leads the follower to seek new and deeper levels of love for our fellow man. Why, even the Bible declares that "God is love." Then, why are so many people of the Christian faith concerned, even dismayed by the plan to build a massive Islamic Center which will include a large Mosque (place of Islamic worship) within a couple of blocks of the site where the Twin Towers once stood? And don't the Muslims have the right to use their property in that way if they wish.
The simple answer might be to say, "Yes, the Muslims have the right, by law, to build the Mosque. President Obama declared that to be the case just last week, setting off a fire-storm of controvery over his remarks. It is legal -- but, is it right? Should it matter whether it is right or wrong?
Obviously, the Imam wanting to build the Islamic Center is seeking to make a point, and not the one he is claiming to be making. He says that the intent is to provide a place for creating harmony and healing. Either the Imam is ridiculously stupid, or he is yanking our collective chain. The insensitivity of building a Muslim training facility so close to the place where Islamic terrorists brought horrific pain and suffering , to me, appears to be a "thumbing of the nose" by the Imam at the people of the United States. Imagine if the Japanese had wanted to come to Hawaii in 1950 and build a Shrine right next to the U.S.S. Arizona memorial. The American people would have been outraged by the audacity of such an act! Likewise, we are justified to be greatly offended by this unethical, unfeeling, uncaring, act of deception and lies.
You ask, "well, aren't you afraid of destroying good will between major religions? Afterall, aren't we all going to the same place?" There has been been ill-will between those who are descendents of Ishmael (Abraham's son by Hagar, Sarai's handmaiden) and the descendents of Isaac (Abraham's beloved son by Sarai) for several thousands of years. Don't think that things are going to suddenly improve because a Muslim born President tries to placate the Islamic nations. They declared Jihad' against the Great Satan many years ago and they aern't ones who are given to forgiving and forgetting none too soon. They are undoubtedly laughing among themselves at the utter futility and foolishness of our trying to buy friends. That never works!
To be honest, I am much more concerned with the disrespectful way in which the people of our country have responded to the grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus, and how His Sovereign Holiness demands justice for our sins. As long as we remain unrepentant as a nation we invite the wrath of God upon us, and that will be far more destructive than all the Al-Queda terrorists ever to exist, or will exist in the future.
Allah is not another name for God, but in reality is a name created by Satan, the Prince of this Earth who specializes in counterfeiting true religion and drawing people into a trap of false promises and deceitful hope. There is no other name under heaven or earth by which all men must come unto God but Jesus! He alone is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. It is His truth that will set the sinner free, and His sacrificial death that atoned for the sins of all mankind. Mohammed's creation of diety is full of flaw, and short of sense. The Quran is not a holy book that supercedes the Bible (Old and New Testaments) but instead is one man's frail attempt to make sense of what he did not understand.
I realize that it sounds like I am slamming Islam, and I guess in a way I am. It isn't done with joy or with animosity, but rather out of a attempt to persuade the reader to recognize that the Bible is second to no other book, and the God of Israel who came to this earth as a baby to provide the chance for eternal life, is the one and only way of salvation. In order to demonstrate the truth and strength of the Gospel, there has to be a a piece by piece dismantling of false stories, logic, and beliefs. This is done as an act of love for those who need to hear the truth . . . simliar to how a parent sometimes has to show a child the falicy of their thinking about certain matters. May God use this feeble attempt to proclaim the truth of God's Word.
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