Mark my words, this mosque will NEVER be built.
It would unleash a level of civil disobedience unseen
in this country for many many years.
A majority even in liberal New York are against it.
A sizable majority of Americans outside of New York are
against it.
I saw way more than a month ago, that this opposition
was real, deep, and penetrated millions of us like a toxic stain
that we’d better get rid of fast, lest it poison us.
I saw that what ‘started’ as a “local” issue, IMMEDIATELY
began developing into a national issue, and that that issue was going to take its place among all other items in
the Obama agenda needing to be challenged, rolled back, defunded, and otherwise not complied with.
The REAL issue now is to send out the message that we don’t want this Islamic Emporium/Learning and Recruiting Center built ANYWHERE in New York.
What is happening right now is a free-floating dialogue
played out in the public media: Both Rauf and his wife
“Daisy” have made it clear that backing down is not an option ——”too much is at stake”. This kind of rhetoric
only underscores the fact that LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! , one of the guiding principles of less controversial forms of Real Estate, is all-important to them. They CANNOT lose the gloating symbolism they had their hearts set on, namely to build Cordoba House THERE, at Ground Zero, and THERE ONLY. They are making no friends among NON-Muslims with this kind of attitude; instead it looks like they’re playing
to an existing population of American Muslims ready to be further radicalized. As such the only “bridge-building” Rauf has done successfully is to build a bridge from him
to his natural constituency, which are precisely those disgruntled Muslims who just 8 years ago were seen doing a
a victory dance on 9-11.
We are taking part, on behalf of our candidate, in a large
protest at Ground Zero tomorrow, and a far bigger one is
scheduled of course, for 9-11.
Thanks for the post. I’d be there if I could.