Guest Editorial – Abu Dharr
Abu Dharr
September is the month of 9/11. How can anyone forget 9/11? Dare anyone forget 9/11?! And if it is beginning to slip out of a public’s mind that is really more interested in the New York Yankees than in the World Trade Center, then in comes the “controversy” to rekindle the flames of 9/11.
That controversy is the celebrated news item about the Cordoba House. This is supposed to be a plan to build a 15-story Islamic Center on what is called “ground zero” by the imposing mainstream media. The site on which this Islamic Center is going to be built, we are told, is going to cost around $15 million. We know that the Muslims in the United States, even though they are, by and large, well-to-do, professionally prosperous, and financially capable of coming up with that amount if their pockets were as open as their minds are closed on the issue of sadaqat, zakah, and infaq. The sad truth of the matter is that the upper crust of the American Muslim community are scared stiff to contribute and donate to Islamic causes because they are afraid that the FBI or another arm of the American government will come knocking on their door, drawing them into a session of Q’s and A’s and then eventually accusing them in a court of law of aiding or financing terrorist causes!
