Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 31, 2010

The contrived controversy regarding the so-called Ground Zero Mosque illustrates how Islamic radicals benefit when we betray the principles we profess to believe.

Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who trained Iraqi soldiers and police, warns that the campaign against the Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan offers a propaganda windfall for terrorist recruiters. Taliban leaders in Afghanistan told Newsweek magazine that they would actually prefer that critics of the Center succeed in preventing it from being built.

?By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor,? one Taliban operative explained. ?It?s providing us with more recruits, donations, and popular support.?

Taliban recruitment profited handsomely as a result of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, and revelations of officially sanctioned torture. ?[And] now America gives us another gift with its street protests to prevent a mosque from being built in New York,? he exults.

Our hypocrisy is a form of self-destructive generosity toward those who hate us.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.