The U.S. Government Builds Mosques and Madrassahs (Has any Anon ever seen this?)
Important note here, USAID is involved in paying for the building of these Mosques and Madrassahs Unbelievable !
An Agence France-Presse dispatch, dated today, reads "Matachina: The Madrassa of Martyrs Rebuilt by the USA Remains Empty." It describes a mosque complex in a town near Khost in Afghanistan's southeast. The unnamed reporter tells of finding a stone stele by the side of the road announcing (I am translating here from French) the "Matachina Mosque, rebuilt in 2002 with the assistance of the American people."
The U.S. government has helped pay for a mosque!?
Apparently so. The news report explains that at least 34 persons - combatants, religious students, women, and children – were killed in the U.S. bombardment of the mosque and its adjoining Koranic school on November 16, 2001, in the midst of the American offensive against the Taliban. The new building, paid for by the U.S. Army, is said to be "practically identical" with the previous one, including a wooden door decorated with arabesques out of bronze.
If this report is true, it is a scandal, and an important one. Yet again, it appears, American governmental agencies are giving special treatment to Islam, whether endorsing of the faith or cutting breaks for it by selling land at less than 10 percent of its market price when the purpose is mosque construction. Such privileged treatment is simply not permissible according to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion") and must come to an immediate end.
As an ironic post-script, the AFP report quotes a nearby soldier in Matachina saying that "Nobody ever comes to this mosque." The journalist elaborates: "Not a resident steps foot in it. Barely rebuilt, the mosque is already abandoned. The faithful prefer to pray elsewhere." So, not only did the U.S. Army illegally build a mosque, but it also wasted taxpayer funds.
Comment: This activity fits into a larger pattern that Mimi Stillman and I documented in "The United States Government: Patron of Islam?" (February 24, 2004)
http:// www.danielpipes.org/blog/2004/02/the-us-government-builds-mosques-and