Mosques and Triumphalism

Temple Mount

Going to the beginning of Islam, the first mosque was Muhammad’s house in Medina, as well as his burial place. It was added to over the years and now is a huge complex. This is where he started his wars against the Medinans,  Jews, and Christians, and from where he raided caravans to gain wealth and power. Pretty secular objectives. This is the foundation of Islamic conquest. A mosque.

Next came Kaaba, where the big black rock is, and the Grand Mosque in Mecca. According to Muslim legend, this is where all the tribal gods of the Arabs were, and where Muhammad cleansed all these gods that resided in the black cube\rock. All the conquered gods became all the conquered Arab tribes. Muhammad’s growing Muslim tribe had up to that time been praying facing Jerusalem. Now he ordered all the Muslims and the new Arab “converts” to face Mecca where this conquest took place. Another triumph, another mosque. An interesting modern note is that the current incarnation of that mosque of triumph was built by Mohammed bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s father, paid for by King Faisal of Saudi Arabia where the Wahabi sect was founded, which is the source of modern Islamofacism and terrorism, financed by Saudi Arabia still.

The conquest of territory continued, with Muhammad’s continually growing army, throughout the Middle East, into Egypt, mosques being built each triumphal step of the way.

The next triumphal mosque, the one that angers me most, is Al-Aqsa Mosque, built on the remains of the Jewish Temple. This first temple was built by King Solomon after the death of his father King David, about 1000 BCE. It was destroyed and rebuilt about 580 BCE and lasted until about 70 CE when the Romans destroyed it. On top of this, about 60 years after Muhammad’s death, the triumphal mosque was built. Within it are sacred Jewish artifacts that Muslims keep away from Jews.

A historical reminder that Jews inhabited Jerusalem about 1700 years before the Muslims showed up and Christians were there over 600 years before the Muslims showed up.

Grand Mosque of Damascus used to be a Catholic Church, with many Christian holy artifacts, denied to Christians, another symbol of triumph, and monument to their belief of their own superiority.

The Hagia Sophia, the largest and most revered of Christian Church’s, turned into a Mosque.

The Babri Masjid, built on a holy Hindu site in India.

Then the “religion of peace” moved into Europe, conquering Spain, where the triumphal Great Mosque of Cordoba was built. It’s for this triumphal mosque of conquest the NY City Cordoba Mosque is to be built as a mosque of triumph near hallowed, sacred, Ground Zero.

Other mosques were being built from the other side of Europe at the same time. Europe was under attack, recognized it, and began the Crusades to protect themselves by attacking the Muslim’s homeland. Muslims were forced to retreat and go on defense.

Mosques are being built by the thousands on every continent. Huge mosques in places where there are only a few hundred Muslims, yet costing $millions. They are being financed by terrorist states, most prominently Saudi Arabia. The purpose is to make their presence known. Their goal is dhimmitude, which is submission, concession and surrender to Islam and Sharia Law by every human being on the planet.

That is the singular purpose of the Cordoba Mosque of Triumph in NYC, based on Islamic history.

The mosques are our barracks,

The domes our helmets,

The minarets our bayonets,

And the faithful our soldiers.  ~Poem recited by current Turkish Prime minister.