Sharia Law at.......The Pentagon

Right at our war center headquarters!

While plans for a cultural center and mosque near the site of the September 11 attacks in New York have ignited a hot political debate, Muslims regularly pray at a chapel near where a hijacked jet slammed into the Pentagon nine years ago.

Muslims, Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Mormons and Episcopalians regularly hold services in the multifaith chapel that was dedicated in November 2002 after reconstruction of the section of the Pentagon hit by Islamist hijackers on September 11, 2001.

"I've been here four years next month and the chapel and its function and role have never been an issue," George Wright, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon, said on Thursday.

The Washington Post' Petula Dvorak talks about this dangerous development that has been transpiring right under our noses (especially under the nostrils of Harry Reid, Howard Dean, and all of our Republican nutcase figures).....for almost the last 8 years!

Now, would you believe that in November of that year, right next to the spot where 184 people lost their lives in the Pentagon, the military opened a sanctuary where Islam could be celebrated?

This is truly on sacred ground, mind you. Not two blocks away, wedged between the Gap and Sephora in Pentagon City mall, out of sight of the original crash site.

This prayer room is a mere 30 steps from the place where terrorists crashed the nose cone of American Airlines Flight 77 through the wall and killed Pentagon secretaries and military officers, soccer moms and Little League dads in a screaming "I-have-control-of-this-plane-and-I'm-going-to-die-in-the-name-of-Allah" instant

At first, I was in a little disbelief that a quality column could come from the Fred Kaplan Test Prep Center outside of Eugene Robinson and EJ Dionne. But thankfully, while the likes of Krauthmonster spew their venom, at least the local columnist Dvorak provides a must read column.

Oh wait, there was no outrage. No hyperventilating by cable news anchors. No outpouring of hateful rhetoric on blogs and Web sites.

"Nope, never heard a word about it," folks in the Pentagon chaplain's office told me Thursday after we visited the crash site memorial and the chapel next to it. "No one has had a problem with it."

It is a humble space, spartan except for a U.S. flag and a stained-glass window that depicts a Pentagon and a screaming eagle. The only sign that it's not a lecture hall or meeting room is the piano in one corner and the stack of camouflage-covered New Testament books of psalms and proverbs on a shelf.

In addition, the Post's metro columnist highlights how there are many U.S. military facilities around the world that have locations dedicated to Muslim praying. That salient fact would be very helpful to this country's standing with the international Muslim population, but our vapid media certainly won't be bringing that up anytime soon.

As Dvorak said so well later on about the infied center for all religious praying on this other sacred ground, "This is America at its best." An America that the bigots just can't compute in their feeble, insane, little craniums.