Islam's Spreading Menace

Twin behemoths stood silent sentinel over the signature city with the permanence of a sphinx. There was no hideous tsunami or quake of earth that felled the timeless giants. And now some merry mischief maker Muslims want to construct a mega-mosque where once stood the symbol most identifiable with New York- with America (if only because the World Trade Center dwarfed the Statue of Liberty). There should be little distinction recognized between the World War II era Japanese who fanatically worshipped their Hirohito as the living god and that legal, political, and extra-national philosophy of Islam that is not a religion as we think of religion that should enjoy First Amendment protection but an alien force by its own precepts committed to spreading by the sword. The spread of aggressive political Islam is even visited here to some national controversy with two enormous mosques being granted approval here in middle Tennessee, one in Murfreesboro, a community heretofore mostly noted for being the location of the Middle Tennessee State University campus and the Stones River battlefield from the US Civil War, and the other on the complex of the moribund Hickory Hollow shopping mall. I see no Constitutional obligation to grant favored status to a group bent on destroying America as we have known here and supplanting our laws and founding documents with Sharia. The US Constitution is no suicide pact.