The Ground Zero Debate: Exaggerating the Jihadist Threat (MSM and Rats showing major desperation)

Time ^ | 8/17/2010 | Mark Lennihan

[tobyhill]

Should Muslims be allowed to build a mosque at Ground Zero? Merely posing the question is an act of deliberate distortion. As its defenders point out, the Community Center at Park51 will occupy not a solitary inch of the 16-block site on which the Twin Towers stood. Once built, the center will indeed house a mosque, "open and accessible to all" — but also a swimming pool, basketball court, auditorium, library, day care, restaurant and cooking school. The center is being built by a private organization on land it legally owns. Twenty-nine out of 30 Lower Manhattan community board members have voted to approve it. By every legal standard, the case for allowing Park51 to be built is, in the words of conservative UCLA constitutional law professor Eugene Volokh, "open and shut."

But it isn't going away. President Obama's statement on Aug. 13 endorsing "the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan" has unleashed another storm of partisan bloviation. Obama is "pandering to radical Islam," says Newt Gingrich; John Boehner finds Obama's comments "deeply troubling." On this issue, the President's critics have public opinion on their side: nearly 70% of Americans in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll say they oppose a Ground Zero mosque.

[sauropod]

Sorry. I refuse to click on “time.com”.

[MNJohnnie]

I wonder what this Democrat political operative pretending to be a Journalists would say if instead of a mosque at Ground Zero, this was about the Aryan Nation wanting to move their HQ to the hotel where Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated

[edcoil]

“open and accessible to all”

muslims.

Why would non muslims go to a muslim facility?

[marstegreg]

After their repeated and constant assault on Christianity, standing up so vehememtly for Islam is repulsive to me. How dare they call those who are against this mosque hypocrates when pushing this Mosque is the epitomy of hypocracy (given their treatment of Christians). Shame on them!

[a fool in paradise]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stengel

Richard Stengel is an American editor. He is Time magazine’s 16th managing editor.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Where is the 100 million dollars to build it comeing from?

Americans?

[tobyhill]

That's ok. I'll take one for the team. The MSM and Rats can't play the race card on this one so they'll just claim that 70% of Americans are exaggerating the terrorism issues with these mosque despite the fact if built the Jihadist will declare victory.

[MrB]

Rush, I think, did what more GOPers need to do.

Not only declare the truth that this is a

VICTORY MOSQUE BUILT ON CONQUERED GROUND

but ask the left why they so vehemently support it being done.

[a fool in paradise]

When they decide to play the call to prayer on a loud speaker, they will proclaim their victory over America five times a day.

Treason (aid and comfort to an enemy in a time of war) is not protected free speech.

We deserve to know who is funding this mosque. There are intolerant muslim nations that prohibit the free exercise of any faith that is not Islam. There are muslims around the world who do cheer the 9-11 jihadists' actions and would like to do a victory dance on the soil of "New Mecca", er Cordoba USA.

[SECURE AMERICA]

The islamoterrorists should not be allowed to build anything anywhere in our Country islam is not a religion it is an oppessive and destructive and murderous ideology...

[maggief]

“America is going to be the big loser in this fiasco. The only way to avoid it would have been for Bloomberg to to oppose the idea of building so close to Ground Zero for safety considerations.”

Like Crist, Bloomberg is a client of Maoist Anita Dunn.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2572138/posts

(NYDN) Democrats: We were blindsided by President Obama’s Ground Zero mosque comments
NYDailyNews ^ | August 17, 2010 | Kenneth R. Bazinet

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2572153/posts

Dunn acts as Obama attack dog on mosque, says GOP ’solidifying its reputation for intolerance’
Daily Caller ^ | August 17, 2010 | Jon Ward

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2572138/posts?page=34#34

Reported on WOR radio this morning that Mayor Bloomers was given advance notice. No one else.

http://www.skdknick.com/

Anita Dunn
Managing Director

Anita Dunn, most recently Senior Advisor and Chief Communications Officer to the successful Presidential campaign of President Barack Obama, has been a top political strategist and communications advisor for nearly three decades.

http://www.skdknick.com/our-work/Bloomberg.aspx

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Mike Bloomberg for Mayor

[Spok]

Siding with the ‘bama against 70% of the American people. The MSM does it again! The mosque at ground zero is the Jihadi’s version of “I’ll hold the football for you, Charlie Brown, so you can kick it.”

[Gorzaloon]

"Once built, the center will indeed house a mosque, "open and accessible to all" — but also a swimming pool, basketball court, auditorium, library, day care, restaurant and cooking school

..Female mutilation clinic, an Armory, and a goat-staffed brothel."

[SECURE AMERICA]

Why would non muslims go to a muslim facility?

Why would any civilized human being?

[ozzymandus]

Lefties are now insisting “It’s not a mosque, it’s a community center.” As usual, the first reflex of the left is to lie.

[avacado]

"The center is being built by a private organization on land it legally owns."

Does the write have the facts straight? My understanding is that they do not own the land and have only put down an option to buy the land.

[Nosterrex]

The MSM is nothing more than a propaganda arm of the statists in Washington. There is no pretense of objectivity. Do you suppose that if Westboro Baptist Church wanted to open a community center near Ground Zero that the MSM would be supporting them? The MSM and Bloomberg are cowards. They are scared to death of Muslims, and they should be.