Remember 9-11 as unconscionable act

Karl Fuchs, apparently unlike most Americans, has taken time to research what the Quran and Islam are really about. He has the guts to say it in print, even at the risk of being criticized or ridiculed. If you missed his informative and factual  letter (Sept. 7, Bee), you should get a copy. 

Obama has repeatedly said, “We are not at war with Islam.”

Feb. 23, 1998, Bin Laden issued a fatwa by five Islamic leaders, declaring war on the U.S.  They were to kill Americans and their allies — civilian and military — in any country; to slay the “pagans” anywhere they found them. This appeared in American newspapers!

But, golly, we don’t like to think about things like that. It makes us feel, kind of, oh, you know, kind of uncomfortable-like? Obama implied approval of a mosque being built at the 9-11 site. In a city that already has 100 mosques, this push to build a mosque near 9-11 is a spit-in-your-face insult to the families of 9-11 victims and to all Americans. It’s also a test of Americans’ resolve to see how motivated we are to defend our own religious rights and freedoms; and is one more chess move in the “unholy war” against truth and freedom.

Rallying cries in the past have reminded us of evil done to our nation and encouraged us: “Remember the Alamo”, and “Remember Pearl Harbor.” We need to “Remember 9-11” as the unconscionable, uncalled for act it was.

EVALYN FINNEY

Sandpoint