Phony Bigots Posing As Patriots

[kpete]

Phony Bigots Posing As Patriots

by digby

I missed this NY Times article from last June, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/nyregion/11mosque.html but I think it's hugely important in terms of exposing the utter bullshit on the right about the alleged mosque being near Ground Zero --- and should instruct the timorous Dems that even if they cave on this, they are going to be faced with the "question" of what to do about the next mosque. Are they all going to say it's a local matter and none of their business?

Heated Opposition to a Proposed Mosque
By PAUL VITELLO
Published: June 10, 2010

In the last few months, Muslim groups have encountered unexpectedly intense opposition to their plans for opening mosques in Lower Manhattan, in Brooklyn and most recently in an empty convent on Staten Island.

Some opponents have cited traffic and parking concerns. But the objections have focused overwhelmingly on more intangible and volatile issues: fear of terrorism, distrust of Islam and a linkage of the two in opponents’ minds.

“Wouldn’t you agree that every terrorist, past and present, has come out of a mosque?” asked one woman who stood up Wednesday night during a civic association meeting on Staten Island to address representatives of a group that wants to convert a Roman Catholic convent into a mosque in the Midland Beach neighborhood.

more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/nyregion/11mosque.html

Does anyone still want to pretend that this is about anything but ignorance, fear and hate stoked by the cynical opportunists of the right wing noise machine?

more:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/phony-bigots-posing-as-patriots.html

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Updated to add:
Mosques around the country facing opposition
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100809/pl_yblog_upshot/mosques-around-the-country-facing-opposition

[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[no_hypocrisy]

2. More like "Bigots posing as phoney Patriots".

[justfred]

4. That is what I was thinking...

...there is nothing phony about their bigotry.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. in Germany in the 30s and 40s they used to say the same thing

the GOP are following in the footsteps of Nazism.

[hobbit709]

5. "every terrorist, past and present, has come out of a mosque?"

I didn't know McVey was Muslim, or the Klan.