What Canadian Muslims of calibre say about the Ground Zero mosque

Yes.... it's true. Canada has some very strong and intelligent voices from the Muslim community who speak out bravely, and for which, they are maligned by the Sunni Muslim community as  "Uncle Toms" and "nutcases" that don't speak for them.   There's Salim Mansur, Tarek Fatah and Irshad Manji ... all pretty well known to many Canadians. There are also others who work just as diligently to safeguard Canadian values but keep a low profile most of the time, like Homa Arjomand and Raheel Raza. Here's what some of these brave Muslims have said lately on the GZ mosque initiative.

....In generating this controversy, and then pushing hard on it by insisting on the constitutionally protected right of freedom of religion to build this mosque in the vicinity of Ground Zero in New York City, Islamists behind the project have masterfully succeeded in greatly dividing Americans as the ninth anniversary of 9/11 approaches.

What we are witnessing here is radical Islamists once again, as in the Danish cartoon controversy — or the controversy surrounding the wearing by some Muslim women of niqabs or full-face coverings, or the push for censorship on grounds of hate speech — taking hold of the legal-political framework of liberal democracy to secure grounds for their anti-liberal agenda of advancing acceptance of Sharia in the West....

....The Koran commands Muslims to, "Be considerate when you debate with the People of the Book" -- i.e., Jews and Christians. Building an exclusive place of worship for Muslims at the place where Muslims killed thousands of New Yorkers is not being considerate or sensitive, it is undoubtedly an act of "fitna"

So what gives Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the "Cordoba Initiative" and his cohorts the misplaced idea that they will increase tolerance for Muslims by brazenly displaying their own intolerance in this case?

Do they not understand that building a mosque at Ground Zero is equivalent to permitting a Serbian Orthodox church near the killing fields of Srebrenica where 8,000 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered?

This is Irshad Manji's blog. Pretty disappointing as she has not really given her own opinion but shied away from the controversy by quoting others. Are you losing your "pluck" Ms.Manji?  tsk, tsk.

Here's Tarek Fatah and Raheel Raza talking to FoxNews hosts.

Also, there will be a candle light vigil organized by the JDL on Sep 11 at 9 pm at the US Consulate in Toronto to protest the building of this mosque where 3000 innocents lost their lives on that fateful day we remember so well.