Imam Rauf may not appear to the untrained eye to be an Islamist, but by making Ground Zero an Islamic rather than an American issue, and by failing to firmly condemn terrorist groups like Hamas, he shows his true allegiance.
Islamists in “moderate” disguise are still Islamists. In their own more subtle ways, the WTC mosque organizers end up serving the same aims of the separatist and supremacist wings of political Islam. In this epic struggle of the 21st century, we cannot afford to ignore the continuum between nonviolent political Islam and the militancy it ultimately fuels among the jihadists.
That last sentence is what most of Washington (and obviously the msm) - repubs & dems alike - just don’t get.
So, I’ll repeat it :
...we cannot afford to ignore the continuum between nonviolent political Islam and the militancy it ultimately fuels among the jihadists.