Build The Ground Zero Mosque
I get a lot of bullshit emails from rightwing organizations that make racist claims about Teh Muslimz. In fact, I get so many — Family Security Matters, I’m looking in your bigoted direction — that my...
View ArticleScenes From A Mob
Via Ben Smith, the Bergen Record‘s Mike Kelly lets the anti-Ground Zero mosque set display its canny and subtle understanding of Islam: At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly surrounded two...
View ArticleThe Anti-Ground Zero Mosque Crowd Is Objectively Pro-Usama bin Laden
If ever you want to see an effort at stripping American identity from American Muslims, this ad denouncing the Ground Zero Mosque is a perfect case in point. In its conflation of Muslims with al-Qaeda,...
View ArticleMuslims Are Under No Obligation To ‘Reject’ Ground Zero Mosque
Yesterday, Sarah Palin tweeted: Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing As it turns out, near North...
View ArticleNeedlessly Limiting Your Pool of Allies
Via Yglesias, Robert Wright has a pitch-perfect piece about the tragedy of demonizing the Cordoba House/Ground-Zero-Mosque: No doubt Osama bin Laden, if apprised of the situation, would hope that Rauf...
View ArticleSeriously, Anti-Defamation League?
You get the strong sense reading through the Anti-Defamation League’s objection to the Ground Zero Mosque Cordoba House that they know better than to object. They’re not cool with “appeals to bigotry...
View ArticleAn Anti-Awlakist Video And Cordoba House
The New York Times reports on a new video by some anti-Awlakists, for lack of a better phrase: [N]ine influential American Muslim scholars have come together in a YouTube video to repudiate the...
View Articleal-Qaeda, Cordoba House & Bigotry As A Strategic Issue
OUTSIDE RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, IN A QUAINT-ASS GERMAN TOWN, Germany — I hate to say I told you so, starting way back in May. But now that the anti-Muslim bile against the unobjectionable Islamic center...
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