Hat tip to Frontpage Magazine
Eric Allen Bell is a liberal filmmaker who went to Murfreesboro, Tennessee and got caught up making a documentary on the mosque building controversy. He began as a strong supporter of the mosque project, but the more he delved into his research, the more he learned, and the more he began to change his outlook. In the below article for Frontpage Magazine, he describes how his views have evolved and what that cost him from his liberal media crowd.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/07/the-high-price-of-telling-the-truth-about-islam/
It is important to note that Bell is still a liberal, still believes that most American Muslims are peaceful, and still recognizes that the Muslims in the Murfreesboro area have the legal right to build a house of worship. However, he has learned things that give him pause. He sees the intolerance within Islam. He now recognizes the duplicitous nature of Muslim organizations like CAIR.
So what are we to make of the idea of a big new mosque in Murfreesboro? Is it simply a case of putting up a needed house of worship for local area Muslims? Or is it part of a larger project, one designed to build and consolidate power for the organizations like CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, NAIT, MPAC and other groups who dream of bringing a caliphate to America someday in the future?
Can we have an honest and civilized debate about these things? Or does any mention of it have to bring instant charges of Islamophobia?
There is a strange disjuncture in the film maker's account. His train of thought changed because of events in North Africa. Never once does he mention any reason to have doubts about the residents of Murfreesboro who want to build a mosque there.
ReplyDeleteSounds to me like what he said about the demos in LA are legitimate, his concerns about events in North African are legitimate, and what he said about events in Murfreesboro are legitimate. Yet somehow, he allows one legitimate concern to stop him cold on another legitimate concern, without ever making a substantive connection.
He did, however, make an error in allowing his original funding pitch to stray into broad sweeping insinuations about American culture. He should have stuck to, here's an event in Murfreesboro, TN. Certainly that was something to pause and reconsider, but instead of going back to the facts he knew, he jumped off on a totally different broad sweeping generalization.
Now if a Muslim congregation of 250 is building a mega-Mosque with room for 10,000 worshippers, using funds from a Saudi foundation channeled through CAIR, then, and only if that or some similar scenario is proven, there would be a legitimate concern about the mosque in Murfreesboro.
If they are building something the size of the Islamic Center of Milwaukee, half a block from where I used to work, and three blocks from a good place to buy cous-cous, then he should stick to his original documentary. It sounded pretty good.
Here's a conundrum for conservative stereotypes:
ReplyDeleteNazir Al-Mujaahid was shopping with his pregnant wife in an Aldi's store in Milwaukee, when a man came in brandishing a shotgun with intent to commit robbery.
Nazir Al-Mujaahid has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, moved to protect his wife, then shot the suspect.
Muslim... concealed carry... pregnant wife... robbery... Sometimes an armed Muslim can be a great thing for public safety in America.
No charges were filed against him.
Kudos to Nazir. Since you are in Milwaukee, you should buy him a beer.
ReplyDeleteSimilar incidents frequently happen when off-duty law enforcment officers happen to be at the right p;lace at the right time.
Like when two dopes tried to hold up a bar about 30 years ago. Only problem was it was a cop bar.
You can guess the rest of that story.
No conundrum here that I can see. Law-abiding citizen, regardless of religion or ethnicity, apparently carrying a gun legally, shoots, (and I hope kills) a dirtbag. He is not, and should not, be charged with anything. Wish it happened more often.
ReplyDeleteSometimes an armed Muslim (or Christian, Jew, Buddhist,agnostic, atheist, whatever, except for Rastafarians and some similar others) can be a great thing for public safety in America.