[kristinn]

Ten Christian humanitarians were slaughtered recently by Muslims in Afghanistan. Where is the article in the New York Times warning that such anti-Christian acts risk encouraging anti-Muslim rhetoric?

But, according to the experts it's all our fault that because we don't want an Islamic Victory mosque at Ground Zero that terrorists will want to attack us again.

[Carley]

Oh, so that is why they attacked us on 9/11.

[Politicalmom]

So what “consequences” are there for the millions of Islamists screaming “Death to America” and burning our flag?

*Crickets*

[RC2]

The same thing happened with Japan and Germany during WWII. As long as they were attacking the US and its interests, the dislike and distrust of Islam will continue and grow. It will grow until something breaks. It’s up to Islam how far it will go.

Remember, once Japan and Germany were beaten, Americans left them alone. I will not accept the belief by some people that it is Americas fault.

[Bertha Fanation]

So we better vote in the Victory Mosque or they’ll get mad at us and kill us.

[antidemoncrat]

If we are not hostile toward the radical Muslims that killed 3000+ of our citizens, we’ve already lost the war on terrorism. If the Muslims are sincere about tolerance, let them prove it by letting us build a Christian church 2 blocks from Mecca.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Yes, it does bolster extremists and that is one of the reasons the Mosque is planned for GZ. Also, anti mosque statements will be broadcast in Saudi, Dubai, etc. to show people that “we really don’t really believe in their freedom”. This aggressive act is win, win, win for the people funding it.

My question is, how is Obama getting ahead in all of this? Given the 52,000sqft mosque in Murfreesboro too, I would bet that Obama had some sort of conversation with the king of Saudi but what I don’t get is what is he getting in return? I wouldn’t put it past him to have offered his support for the Mosques in return for nothing but who knows?

[NurdlyPeon]

As soon as I saw the words “New York Times”......What did they do, make, I mean take a ‘pole’? Oh, sorry, this was an ‘expert’. Pffffft!

[Pox]

The standard propaganda tangent as usual, it's simply our own fault these peace loving muslims hate us and want to destroy us.

If we only reached out and started a mutual dialogue, we wouldn't be helping those bent on destroying us in their recruiting efforts, blah blah blah.

Really, how many cowards are there in this country who believe this complete nonsense?

[cranked]

These “experts” are full of $hit and what they are saying amounts to more BS excuses........you can remove every grievance these ISLAMIC extremists, radicals, and terrorist have about the US today and they would wake up tomorrow and find something new to excuse their extremist, radical, and terrorist actions and deeds. Anti-Islam protests are meaningless to the greater reasons and motivations as to why ISLAMIC extremists, radicals, and terrorists do what they do. Therefore, as I initially asserted, these alleged “experts” are full of $hit! Oh, and frak you libtard idiot-ridden New York Slimes for even printing this BS (!) story. =.=

[TribalPrincess2U]

Duh!

[Ptarmigan]

I think the opposite. It makes the Islamists less emboldened. Evil has to be confronted and dealt with.

[Man50D]

“I know people in this debate don’t intend it, but there are consequences for these kinds of remarks,” said Brian Fishman, who studies terrorism for the New America Foundation here.

There are also consequences for murdering 3,000 people on American soil.

[Apercu]

The only thing Islam understands is violent massive force -it is what they fear and respect. They are like the bully on the block.Again history repeats itself.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Typical liberal appeasement claptrap.

Defending ourselves offends the ROP, thus it is our fault they hate us. And that they attacked us in the first place.

Remember, this is the same bunch that blamed us for 9/11 after it happened.

What no politician has the b*lls to say loudly to the national press is the obvious. This mosque was planned and designed to put a finger in our eye and a stick in our a$$. This is its entire purpose.

And if we give in to them, the irony is that they will hate us even more. Because not only are we infidels that deserve death, we are cowardly infidels and thus deserve it even more.

No one respects weakness. Love can’t be earned, but respect can.

[Will88]

Muqtedar Khan, an associate professor of political science at the University of Delaware, said he was not sure the Islamic center dispute alone would radicalize anyone. But he said it was “demoralizing” for Muslims like him who defend the United States as an open and tolerant society.

Oh, these wonderful Moslems defending the US as an open and tolerant society, something we all know the Moslems are very knowledgeable about, coming from societies with such long histories of openness and tolerance. These insufferable liars and hypocrites really do become too much at times. I doubt there are other people anywhere on earth who can twist reality inside out the way these posers do at every opportunity.

But now this character is 'demorzlized' at trying to defend this horrible nation to other open and tolerant Moslems. What a tragedy. What to do, what to do?

[EternalVigilance]

by bolstering their claims that the United States is hostile to Islam.

America is hostile to Islam, because Islam is hostile to America. Keep attacking us and you'll eventually see exactly how hostile.

So far our leaders have been playing patty-cake. But the people of this country will only put up with that so long.

Ask Japan what happens when you awaken the sleeping giant.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Say the Nytimese: Some counterterrorism experts say the anti-Muslim sentiment that has saturated the airwaves and blogs in the debate over plans for an Islamic center near ground zero in Lower Manhattan is playing into the hands of extremists by bolstering their claims that the United States is hostile to Islam.

If the mosque (Rush has called it Hamosque) Muslim supporters kinda, sort of want Sharia and they want Islam influence in government THAT MAKES THEM ISLAMISTS! And if American Muslims sit quietly THAT MAKES THEM ISLAMISTS!

What says a country that's 99+ percent Muslim about Islamists?

09 Aug 2010 "Turkey's staunchly secular military named a new head of the armed forces and army chief on Monday"

"[Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister] is disliked in the military because of his Islamist past. The military sees itself as the guardian of secularism in Turkey, and has staged three coups between 1960 and 1980.

"It forced an Islamist-led government to resign as recently as 1997 but reforms undertaken to bolster Turkey's bid for EU membership have curbed its powers."

The Turks ought to know.

[rfreedom4u]

So if we protest it enrages them.

If we don’t protest they continue to spew their vile “faith” about us infidels.

We’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

I for one will go down fighting.

[IronJack]

Oh, yeah. We should tiptoe around the delicate sensibilities of the mooooooooooslims, lest we outrage them and they do something nasty, like hijack a few planes and fly them into buildings.

If they're getting the feeling that the United States is hostile to islime, maybe it's because the United States is hostile to islime. All of the United States, that is, except whatever liberal outback the New York Times occupies.

[wac3rd]

The New York Times is a suicidal, Marxist rag.