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RUSH: Okay back to the phones. Mihiar in Wichita, Kansas. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Hello. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am an American Muslim and I oppose building a mosque around the Ground Zero area.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did I pronounce your name correctly? I don\u2019t want to mispronounce it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, you did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. Why do you oppose it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s common sense. It\u2019s a sensitivity issue. I don\u2019t think it has anything to do with constitutional rights of Muslims to build mosques anywhere in America. I think we have to be sensitive to our fellow Americans, and that\u2019s just common sense to me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was in the first hour of the program today I read an excerpt in an interview from a man. I forget his title but he was a ranking executive at Al-Arabiya TV, he basically said the same thing. He said most Muslims don\u2019t really want it there; they know the problems it\u2019s going to cause. It\u2019s a commercial area; it\u2019s not residential. There aren\u2019t a whole lot of Muslims that live there in the first place. It implied that there\u2019s a battle within Islam over Al-Qaeda bastardizing a religion and that this is going to give all of Islam a bad name if this thing gets built there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. This is opening a can of worms, and we don\u2019t need that. We are loyal American citizens. And actually our faith — our Islam, our religion — requires us to repel evil with good and to do something that is good. I actually made a video clip on YouTube suggesting another idea for using that property, and whether to build a charitable institution to cater to the needs of people in that area, or actually to do something more drastic than that, and that is to rebuild the towers and dedicate them to the victims of 9\/11.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Interesting. I think we\u2019re going to build one tower back. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They wanted to call it the World Trade Center but people opposed that. They\u2019re going to call it the Freedom Tower now, I think.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, are you representative of a majority of thinking in your circle?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I hope. I hope I am. I don\u2019t know. I hope I am because I think Muslims are also reacting to this issue emotionally, as Americans who are opposing the mosque also are reacting emotionally. And if American Muslims would take some time to think about the repercussions of building a mosque in that area, they would probably be also opposing to that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mihiar, thank you very much. That\u2019s interesting. I\u2019ll tell you something. That is an excellent point. We\u2019re always concerned about anti-Muslim backlash. Remember the Times Square bomber? Bloomberg said (paraphrased), ‘Oh, no, it was obviously somebody that didn\u2019t like Obama\u2019s health care.\u2019 After the Fort Hood shooter, General Casey comes out and says, ‘I\u2019m going to make sure that we don\u2019t have an anti-Muslim backlash,\u2019 and yet here they want to build a mosque at Ground Zero, and they\u2019re not concerned about anti-Muslim backlash, are they? That is an excellent point out there. Why aren\u2019t we worried about it in this case when in virtually every other case our leaders are in panic over anti-Muslim reaction? Think about that. Thank you, Mihiar, for the call. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Simon in Spokane, Washington, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush, thank you very much for taking my call. It\u2019s truly an honor. Correct me if I\u2019m wrong, but how I see the mosque is if you\u2019re in favor of this mosque or anything else Muslim, then really you\u2019re in favor of the genital mutilation of teenage women and the summary execution of women. Why should we give freedom to those who don\u2019t just practice acts of worship, but practice atrocious acts of violence?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, some people would agree with you that that is in the basic teachings of Islam, the discrimination of women and so forth, and why would you want that kind of intolerance in your neighborhood. That\u2019s basically your question?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So if you have that view then you do have to ask yourself: Why in the world are people for it? Which is my point all along: Why are the people who are for this so hell-bent in favor of it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Simon, thanks much. Mike in New Gloucester, Maine, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Good afternoon, Rush. Nice to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, listen, I gotta… Hear me out on this, because your heart\u2019s in the right place, but I don\u2019t think you\u2019re thinking it all the way through. I have a family of seven brothers. We love this country. We\u2019ve all been in the military, but the youngest spoiled brat — I mean my youngest brother — and we would do anything to defend this country and what it was founded on. But here\u2019s the problem with the mosque: I\u2019m a born-again Christian, and I believe in keeping the Sabbath day. Now, what happens if the Vatican or some other government all of a sudden turns around and says, ‘You know something? We ought to keep Sunday holy and let\u2019s get rid of Sabbath-keeping churches.\u2019 I mean, you\u2019ve gotta be careful with what it is you\u2019re saying we should or we shouldn\u2019t do because the mosque has a right. Even though I absolutely agree with you, they are doing this to get up underneath our collars, but that\u2019s not where we go. We should go to the government and get on their case to get off of our case and allow us to build our crosses and our churches, pray in school or pray whatever how we want to and leave us alone. But never, ever forget that the Constitution was built on the very freedom to worship how we wish.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but in this case nobody is preventing Muslims from worshiping, and nobody is altering the Sabbath or anything about Islam. There are a hundred mosques throughout New York City, and if this one doesn\u2019t get built, it doesn\u2019t mean that Muslims are being prohibited from worshiping as they choose.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it shouldn\u2019t be up to us to try to —<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, we can\u2019t put a cross wherever we want.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we ought to be able to. That\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We should go after the government. We need to get the government to get off our case. Never mind trying to stop the mosque. We should stop the government from trying to stop us from building churches.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. The government isn\u2019t doing anything to stop this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there are people playing some games in New York to see if they can find some loopholes to stop them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, they\u2019re trying to use public opinion pressure here to cause the sensitivity to take the mosque location someplace else. There\u2019s no long arm of government involved here. The only long arm of government that\u2019s involved is saying, ‘Build it there.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019ll tell you what, Rush. We love you. We love listening to you. Most of the time we are absolutely behind you. I just… I\u2019m saying, ‘Tread carefully because what we set up now may come to bite us whether you\u2019re a Baptist, a Lutheran, a this or that or what have ya.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look — <\/p>\n

CALLER: It may turn around and bite us in the butt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand your theory, but the circumstances of this mosque are not analogous. You talk about, ‘If the Vatican came out and changed the Sabbath.\u2019 Nothing of the kind is happening here. If this mosque does not get built there\u2019s not one change occurring in Islam. Not one. We have ordinances, laws and everything that say where things can and can\u2019t be built. Homes, you name it. There\u2019s nothing unique about this. The harm would come with this thing going up. That\u2019s the thing that people have got to understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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