The Neverending Mosque Debate
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 8:56 am
President Obama’s comments on Friday and Saturday concerning the right of what’s now commonly referred to as the “Ground Zero Mosque” to break earth in downtown Manhattan continue to drive the day. Anyone who’s anyone has staked out an opinion on the matter, with the exception of some congressional Democrats who were hoping very much to keep the politics local in their respective midterm races.
The GOP, for its part, is excited to turn the president’s words into a campaign issue across the country. Mike Allen quotes an anonymous GOP official as arguing, “The president is out of touch. Just because someone has the right to do something, doesn’t mean people don’t have the right to be outraged or upset by the insensitivity of the decision.”
The president, however, did take pains to point out and pay tribute to the sensitivities and emotions the decision engenders. He simply argued that our constitution gives the mosque the same right as any religious institution to set up shop in the area. In that respect, Nate Silver argues, the president is hardly out of touch with public opinion. While nearly two-thirds of the populace think it is “wrong” to build a mosque near ground zero, 61 of respondents still think the group has a “right” to do so.
Republicans’ decision to rally against the proposed mosque also reflects a larger shift within the party against Islam, note Ben Smith and Maggie Haberman. Under the leadership of George W. Bush — who, despite having led the march to war in Iraq, continued to court Muslims and called Islam a religion of peace — the right wing suppressed the bulk of its skepticism and mistrust regarding the religion. With Bush now largely out of the picture, however, many Republicans have openly sought to cultivate fear and hostility towards Islam and translate it into electoral advantage in November.
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Comment posted August 16, 2010 @ 7:36 pm
NOTE: (As of 8-15-10, WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS our nation is facing… Our so-called news cycle is dominated by a conservative idiot debate about a Mosque in NYC. I swear to the Almighty when the revolution finally comes TV/radio news people/pundits are high on the “off with their heads” list, lol.
It’s 7:12 pm PST and some maniac named Bill Cunningham (he’s cunning, he’s a ham) is spewing hate speech to the Conservative wacko masses. According to C. Ham, President Obama will eventually hand the USA over to Muslims/Shariah Law and the right wing nutcases are eating it up…
Hey C.Ham, look to Bush/Cheney if you need someone to blame for ruining the image of middle-aged White guys.
OK, you morons want to play? Let’s see who’s REALLY handing the nation over to foreign INTERESTS:
It all started with Newt Gingrich, the great shameless, hypocrite who was cheating on his sick wife while preaching morality at Bill Clinton. This Republican limp**** is AT IT AGAIN! This time the Grich is trying to tear down President Obama over the NYC Mosque issue. Muslim this, Islam that but what most conservative wackos don’t know is Newt Gingrich opened the door for the Saudi Royals and other foreign special interests to OWN news media in the USA. In the 90’s Newt oversaw hidden legislation that allowed Rupert Murdoch to buy FOX Spin… ahhhh I mean News.
12/1/2000 – CIA document Case# F-2001-00009: Buried by Bush/Cheney
“International Crime Threat Assessment” defines “Kleptocracy,
…rather than serve PUBLIC INTEREST, top leaders use nations resources solely to enrich themselves and their cronies. To cover up crimes the stage is set for social and political upheavals…”
Everyone has been thinking it but too afraid to say anything. Republicans put the American PEOPLE under the thumb of Big Oil. And when one thinks of Big Oil the Saudi Royals quickly come to mind.
The really disturbing part of what the George H.W. Bush lip readers witnessed, were his stories about how the Saudi’s have suckered Republicans into destroying America from within. They’ve been playing the right-wing extremists for FOOLS since 1994. It seems Prince Bandar and Prince Alwaleed bin Talai have USED Republican and Conservatives to upgrade their dawah programs.
First they set up schools, clubs, associations all over the world to convert any and all non-Caucasian locals. (example: Association of Latin American Muslims)
Then Saudi Royals invested in the Military Industrial Complex and are now among the leading arms dealers on the planet. (see yearly arms show in Abu Dhabi) Of course they’ve indirectly been involved with every economic disaster and terrorist act since Reagan/Bush came to power. The consequence is their profit margins have increased by 75%.
I know, I KNOW, it was just a coincidence most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi’s. Of course that **** George W. Bush decided our enemy was in Iraq because “…Poppy was personal friends with the Bin Laden’s”.
The Saudi’s want NEVER-ENDING WAR and they know the sucker Ho’s in the Republican Party will make their long term strategic plans possible. Our own Republicans and Conservatives have sold us out to foreign corporate interests.
NOTE: That’s why after 9/11 George W. told Americans to go shopping. Because of investments between the Saudi’s and China, Americans stopped being citizens and became nothing more than consumers. “BUY SOMETHING, o get out”
The Saudi’s have donated billions to promote Conservative spokespersons and Republican candidates over the last few decades. Read this following post on Saudi’s owning FOX News;
“We’ve researched the AM Radio Free Conservative/FOX News propaganda machine and it turns out spokespersons like O’Reilly, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc… are TRAITORS working for foreign special interests that want to “divide and conquer” the American PEOPLE. PROPAGANDA on a scale not seen since Mussolini convinced the Italian PEOPLE a police state would assure the trains run on time.
I’m sure the Saudi Royals (Kingdom Holding Co.) who are now majority stockholders in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp/FOX News are confident of their long range strategic planning.
IT’S TIME TO CALL OUT FOX NEWS AND FIGHT BACK AGAINST THESE CONSERVATIVE INSURGENTS before they allow the destruction of the USA.
NOTE: (did you see the video of the TRAITORS Ailes, O’Reilly, Hannity, Beck and the rest of FOX news puppets lining up t0 kiss the right shoulder of the Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talai? I got ill during the Saudi sword dance celebrating how they got the American, ignorant, right-wing fanatics to VOTE AGAINST THEIR OWN BEST INTERESTS!
…It’s even more sickening than all the hand holding/kissing Bush Jr. used to do at the ranch in Crawford TX. George W. Bush always resembled a smitten school girl ever time he was in the presence of Saudi Royals. All this going on while Bush, Cheney, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Beck, etc… were carrying out Osama bin Laden’s plan to make the USA the enemy of all Islam and break the bank with unnecessary WARS!
HA Republicans… nothing but #*~/’n obstructionists who allowed a bunch of vain, self-serving, power mad, greed stricken, silver spoon CON artists to ravage and expatriate most of our nation’s wealth and resources. The USA is in the middle of a fire sale where drug trafficers, Saudi Royals, India and communists China are buying up our most valuable assets… Thanks for NOTHING you Republican/Conservative wackos. See cyberbitchslap2.blogspot.com for more
Comment posted August 16, 2010 @ 9:22 pm
I find it interesting that right-wing wingnuts are acting like the very same people they vilify.
The debate over Isaac and Ishmael is OVER.
They want to curtail American freedoms, in the name of fighting terrorism. They smear peaceful muslims as the same as terrorists. They throw around “Nazi” like it's going out of style while all the while acting just like them. They stick their noses into what is a LOCAL issue, like one mosque will destroy the fabric of this country, while howling for repeal of the 13th, 14th, and 17th Amendments. “Terror babies” is a big thing with them, but they can't seem to bring themselves to the obvious conclusion that they breeding their own brand of what it is they vilify.
This is abject hypocrisy at it's worse, because it's so easily seen for what it is.
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