By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to quell the fears of Americans who were in the throes of the Great Depression he said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Today’s world is a roaring sea of unpredictability, instability and fearful portents that make Roosevelt’s world seem calm.

The news is awash with debate about Imam Rauf’s Ground Zero mosque being built in Lower Manhattan against the wishes of seventy percent of Americans. Few have noticed that half a world away Muslims are ripping up a Christian graveyard against the orders of their government.

The orders of Muslim Cleric Mirza Abdul Ghani are being carried out to build additions to the mosque in spite of the orders of local officials to halt construction in Mandi Bhawaldin, Pakistan.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Only a few short months after snubbing the National Day of Prayer President Obama continued his war on American sensibilities at a meeting honoring the close of the religious observance of Ramadan.

Celebrating at a dinner in the White House on Friday August 13, Obama followed the meeting with a statement that Muslims had a right to build a mosque even in Lower Manhattan.  Polls taken across the nation indicate that very few Americans are in agreement with his assertions.

On the evening of July 27, 2010, Helen Friedman, took to a podium in a New York community board meeting and declared that building the Mosque at Ground Zero was the equivalent of America receiving a Trojan Horse from the Muslims. Such sentiment reflects the feelings of most 9/11 families of victims lost to the deliberate destruction of the Trade Towers done by Muslim radicals.

Following that event Canadian author Farzana Hassan appeared on the O’Reilly Factor, Friday, August 13, and said that the mosque was indeed a Trojan Horse because there would be no way of knowing just what kind of things would be allowed to take place inside the environs of the proposed Mosque.

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