Ground Zero Thought Experiment
August 21, 2010 2:44 PM
By Andy McCarthy  
A friend poses the following: Imagine that there really were these
fundamentalist Christian terror cells all over the United States, as the
Department of Homeland Security imagines. Let’s say a group of five of these
terrorists hijacked a plane, flew it to Mecca, and plowed it into the Kaaba.

Now let’s say a group of well-meaning, well-funded Christians — Christians
whose full-time job was missionary work — decided that the best way to promote
healing would be to pressure the Saudi government to drop its prohibition
against permitting non-Muslims into Mecca so that these well-meaning, well-
funded Christian missionaries could build a $100 million dollar church and
community center a stone’s throw from where the Kaaba used to be — you know,
as a bridge-building gesture of interfaith understanding.

What do you suppose President Obama, Mayor Bloomberg, the New York Times, and
other Ground Zero mosque proponents would say about the insensitive,
provocative nature of the proposal?

Do you think the State Department would make the leader of the Christian
missionaries a special emissary and send him to represent the United States on
diplomatic business overseas?

What do you suppose the Saudi reaction would be?

What do you suppose those ecumenical GZ mosque proponents at Hamas would say? 
What do you suppose Pope Benedict and other Christian leaders would say?

What do you suppose imam Feisal Rauf and his friends at CAIR, the Islamic
Society of North America, the International Institute of Islamic Thought, and
the various other Muslim Brotherhood affiliates would say?

How would building the church/community center in Mecca affect Saudi Arabia’s
standing in imam Rauf’s Sharia Index Project?
- From National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/244406/ground-zero-thought-experiment-
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