Posted on 08/12/2010 8:18:43 AM PDT by detritus
The controversy over a prospective mosque and community center in lower Manhattan reached fever pitch late last month, starting when former vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin called on "Peaceful Muslims" to "pls refudiate" the project via her Twitter feed. She was soon joined by Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's call to prevent the building of any mosques near Ground Zero "so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia" -- thereby embracing Riyadh's medieval notions of religious freedom....
What's particularly tragic about all this is that the people behind the so-called Ground Zero mosque, the Cordoba Initiative, are precisely the moderate Muslims that everyone recognizes are an important bulwark against extremism...
To me, the most interesting question is: Why now, nearly a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has anti-Muslim sentiment on the right gotten so virulent? There are clearly a couple factors at work -- primary season, the election of Barack Hussein Obama, the recent failed attacks in Chicago and Times Square -- but perhaps the most decisive is the absence of the most powerful voice for tolerance among American conservatives.
That's right, I'm talking about George W. Bush. Much as Muslims around the world may have despised his foreign policy and his interrogation and detention policies, the former president spoke out repeatedly and eloquently against attacks on Muslims, and visited an Islamic center several days after 9/11 to send the message that Muslims were not the enemy. He may not have much standing in the Islamic community today, but he still retains a broad following on the right.
But with Dubya now offstage, there are no conservatives left of stature who can push back against the insanity. Here's hoping Bush speaks out.
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I'm not sure he's interested in establishing any sort of post-Presidential legacy. It would be interesting, if only to watch some liberal heads explode....
If they were “Moderate Muslims” they wouldn’t be trying to build a mosque near ground zero and they wouldn’t name it after a former Muslim conquest of the west.
The only thing that keeps these people from extinction is oil.
Let them build it. It will be a bomb magnet. We need one of those in New York.
When you have to base your argument on a lie, you automatically lose the debate.
It is clear by this statement that this author knows utterly nothing at all about this topic and is merely regurgitating his PC ideological dogma.
Cut it out. He had his chance and failed.
Remember this???
“Bush Praises Islam at White House Ramadan Dinner”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1722085/posts
Mass protest at Ground Zero on 9/11. Wonder where our modern day Michelle Antoinette will hide out this year?
She has yet to spend one minute there on 9/11.
C’mon, their heads are exploding already!
The are running twice the unemployment (and thats understating it) of the Bush years.
They love to use the line of the mess we inherited...they inherited half the unemployment of today.
This speaks loudly by itself.
Has anyone heard anything from our President as to how he feels about this mosque? I don’t believe I have. I don’t think that any past President would allow this mosque to go forward. I guess when you have a muslim for a President, he will support them all day long without regard for what the people of this country want. He’s going to push the people of this country to far one of these days and all hell is going to break lose.
Why now, nearly a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has anti-Muslim sentiment on the right gotten so virulent?
His answer is that George W. Bush has not spoken out. But he almost ignores the nearly constant provocation by Muslims here and and abroad, the unmitigated gall with which they operate in our country and abroad, their demands, their reluctance to accept the American Rule of Law and insistence on pushing Shariah, their subjugation and objectification of women, the honor killings on American and Canadian soil and elsewhere, their disrespect for the victims of 9/11 and their cheering of those deaths, their loyalty to foreign countries that happen to be Muslim, the tendency of their young people and their recruits to Islamic terror... I could go on, but you get the point. American anti-Muslim sentiment is a result of the actions and attitudes of Muslims. And opposition to the mosque at Ground Zero is a natural and self-preserving response to the Muslims' constant pressure on the American people and their society. I, too, wish he would speak out. Bu I don't know what George Bush could do to change the the rest of it.
how, considering the 1st amendment and limits on federal authority in these local matters, would the President stop the building of a mosque in NY?
It simply would be unconstitutional. However ridiculous this mosque is, the government has no right to stop it’s construction anymore than they could prevent a Church from being built or arrest people for being Catholic.
But with Dubya now offstage, there are no conservatives left of stature//////
Dubya a conservative?
I guess he might appear that way to a leftist America hater.
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Bush is holding hands with the Saudis. Don’t look for him to do anything about a project they are partially funding.
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