Ground to dust and ash
Yankee bedrock's open wound
Exposes abscess.
It looks as though the litmus test
for determining one's Muslimness
is whether or not one believes that
it is perfectly OK for a mosque to
be built within two blocks of Ground
Zero. I do. Therefore, I must be a
Muslim. Obama does, hence he is
also a Muslim; one in five Americans
believe that is so.
And just what is wrong
with being a Muslim, other than
the wrongheadedness of believing
in any religion? Well, that's easy. The
logic goes something like this: Al- Qaeda=
911 terrorists=Muslims=destroyers of
America=blacks=Obama=socialist=Kenyan,
really. If ground zero is to stand for anything
it should be that of reaffirming our American
principles of freedom of expression within
a community of tolerance. This mosque
non-issue is just an attempt at fear-mongering
to set and control a political agenda that
includes bringing down Obama. So, I will
temporarily put aside my atheisticness
and declare myself a Muslim.
