Rallies over mosque near ground zero get heated

[Turborama]

Source: AP

The proposed mosque near ground zero drew hundreds of fever-pitch demonstrators Sunday, with opponents carrying signs associating Islam with blood, supporters shouting, "Say no to racist fear!" and American flags waving on both sides.

Police separated the two groups but there were some nose-to-nose confrontations, including a man and a woman screaming at each other across a barricade under a steady rain.

Opponents of the plan to build a $100 million, 13-story Islamic center and mosque two blocks from the World Trade Center site appeared to outnumber supporters. Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" blared over loudspeakers as mosque opponents chanted, "No mosque, no way!"

Signs hoisted by hundreds of protesters standing behind police barricades read "SHARIA" — using dripping, blood-red letters to describe Islam's Shariah law. Around the corner, NYPD officers guarded a cordoned-off stretch of Park Place occupied by the old building that is to become the Islamic center.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100822/ap_on_re_us/us_nyc_mosque

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ETA Well done, Faux & Co. Just look at their faces and revel in the hate and fear that you've created.... Mission accomplished.


Related OP in GD: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8993276">Jon Stewart: "Is FOX News a Terrorist Command Center?" (Daily Show Video & Related Articles)

[tomhayes]

1. It's 2004 all over again

This time Muslims == gay marriage.

This country is doomed.

[T Wolf]

3. But what about 2012. They've used/attacked alternate sexuality people, dark-skinned people,

accented people, female people in their bi-annual election issue bullshit.

But they are running out of people to hate, at least as fresh meat for the mouth-breathers.

Who is left to use/attack in two years?

[SkyDaddy7]

8. WATCH THIS!

Tell me if it does not sound the GOP game plan?!?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwgNzi4tNL8

ON EDIT: Had no idea this same video is posted on home page...However, if you have not seen it watch it!

[Robbie88]

17. Wow... excellent find. n/t

[Turborama]

20. Thanks for that, man. And now there's this....

You might need headphones on to make out what he's actually saying but the title gives a clue: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x497821

[butterfly77]

24. I saw this the other day..

it was just perfect. I wasn't paying or attention after watching it what movie is it from?

[SkyDaddy7]

25. I am not sure what movie it is from...

All I know is how disgusting it is that the country is allowing the Right Wing in this country to take us down a similar path!

It just goes to show how POWERFUL Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire is!

This is why the country turned so negative against everything the democrats were trying to do despite the fact they wanted them to do it when they elected them!

Who knows where America is headed but it sure looks like it is it headed in the direction of a Corporate Controlled Christian Theocracy...Especially if the republicans manage to grab control of both Houses of Congress & the POTUS in 2012!

I am not in any way a "2012 Conspiracy Nut" but to me personally that would be the end of the world in my eyes if the GOP regains full control again using the tactics they are currently using!!

SCARY STUFF!!

[coti]

22. It's not just the US, it's all people.

People are too easily manipulated.

[daleo]

2. The rght wing still misuses "Born in the USA". n/t

[abq e streeter]

4. They're too stupid and shallow to actually listen to it and understand what it's really saying

of course, "the right wing misuses" is one of those phrases that you can put almost anything into the "fill in the blank " part, and it'll still turn out to be accurate.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. It just shows how little depth there is to their understanding... of anything.

If they're going to make the effort of taking to the streets, they should at least make the effort to understand why... :eyes:

I also remember seeing "United We Stand" signs during the Bush* campaigns. That was actually Ross Perot's party when he ran in 1992... :crazy:

[alp227]

9. I was laughing when I read about it.

:rofl: Seriously, that song is a frickin' left-wing song for crying out loud!

Other conservatives have embraced that song too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_the_U.S.A._%28song%29#Political_reactions

Hey, at least Glenn Beck understands the left-wing tilt of that song.

[coti]

23. They like the Colbert Report, too, apparently.

They don't think about things very much.

[PJPhreak]

5. There is a "Caravan" of these Haters...

Coming from the West Coast starting on 9/6 and planning on arriving in NY on 911,They will be decorating the Cars and Trucks in "Red White and Blue" Garb so as to be easily seen by other "Caravaners",Their hope is to get a Large group of autos/ridesharers to drive across the US to make some sort of statement as well as participate in their 9/11 Rally.

Well you Freeper/Haters....You will not be the only ones out on I-70/I-80...I will be Too.As well as a bunck of other "Liberals"

And Don't Try Some "Smokey and the Bandit" shit...I can Outdrive you,I have A Fast Car,I have a Great Camera (For getting plate Numbers of those who try to hurt me) and I Will be seen...By you,make NO mistake!

[deminks]

6. Professionally printed signs and shirts,

We learned this morning that Faux Noise is funding the Mosque.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8993692


I repeat Speaker Pelosi's question from last week. Who is funding the anti-mosque movement? A legitimate question IMHO.





A man holds a sign during a rally held to support a proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque near the World Trade Center site in New York August 22, 2010. Supporters and opponents of a proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque near the World Trade Center site rallied in downtown Manhattan on Sunday, kept blocks apart by a heavy police presence. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi …

[SpiralHawk]

7. Fox News owners are funding the mosque? How perfectly republicon.

No integrity.

[mike r]

10. "If the mosque gets built, "we will bombard it,""

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100822/ap_on_re_us/us_nyc_mosque

...Gila Barzvi, whose son, Guy, was killed in the towers, stood with mosque opponents, clutching a large photo of her son with both hands.

"This is sacred ground and it's where my son was buried," the native Israeli from Queens said. She said the mosque would be "like a knife in our hearts."

She was joined by a close friend, Kobi Mor, who flew from San Francisco to participate in the rally.

If the mosque gets built, "we will bombard it," Mor said. He would not elaborate but added that he believes the project "will never happen."

[Frisbee]

15. Cool, an Isreali terrorist...

protesting American values in America.

[John Kerry VonErich]

27. More along the lines of "fight fire with fire"

nt

[alp227]

11. Mosque protest initiated by bigots=front-page news maybe (check Monday's NYT though)

Tea Party protests (initiated by the FRONT GROUP FreedomWorks, not really grassroots)=front-page news

Anti-war protests=buried in the Metro section of the Washington Post

Source: http://mediamatters.org/research/200909150037

[pnorman]

21. 'freedomworks"

No offence intended, but I Google ALL such "allegations". Here it is: http://teaparty.freedomworks.org/video/no-mosque-at-ground-zero

THANKS

[felinetta]

12. Community Center! Community Center! Community Center! Get it right.

[Turborama]

16. I know, it seriously annoys me too but I can't alter the title from the source

I wish I could have but AP seem to be adament on calling a "mosque".

Apparently...



Someone did a really good Photoshop of an enormous gold statue of osama bin laden giving the finger outside a massive mosque actually at Ground Zero and posted it on DU, but I can't find it. Has anyone else seen it?

[awoke_in_2003]

13. Oops...

missed a certain word the first time I read it.

[jimlup]

14. It is ironic that they played Springstein's "Born in the USA"

Which has exactly the opposite message they were trying to portray.

Morains!

[Jefferson23]

18. The opponents of the Center are indeed ugly, hideous even.

If Bruce Springsteen had a nickel for every time a RW asshole misused his song....

[western mass]

26. Klan rallies...

not just for white people anymore.