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Fareed Zakaria Returns ADL Award Over Ground Zero Mosque

Posted by Haitham Sabbah on Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 2:53 pm.
Newsweek writer and CNN host Fareed Zakaria has returned an award he received in 2005 from the infamous Anti-Defamation League over the Jewish group's opposition towards the Ground Zero mosque. Zakaria explained his decision in his column saying: Does Foxman believe that bigotry is OK if people think they're victims? Does the anguish of Palestinians, then, entitle

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/08/we-muslims-know-the-ground-zero-mosque-is-meant-to-be-a-deliberate-provocation.html


"We Muslims know the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation"

I lost any respect I had had for Tarek Fatah when he savaged the great freedom fighter Wafa Sultan, but he is largely on the right side with this one, at least in characterizing the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero as a provocation (the article is otherwise full of tendentious falsehoods about the Qur'an and other matters, which I have not reproduced here): "Mischief in Manhattan: We Muslims know the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation," by Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah in the Ottawa Citizen, August 7 (thanks to Don):

[...] When we try to understand the reasoning behind building a mosque at the epicentre of the worst-ever attack on the U.S., we wonder why its proponents don't build a monument to those who died in the attack?

New York currently boasts at least 30 mosques [Daisy Khan said over 100] so it's not as if there is pressing need to find space for worshippers. The fact we Muslims know the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation to thumb our noses at the infidel....

So what gives Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the "Cordoba Initiative" and his cohorts the misplaced idea that they will increase tolerance for Muslims by brazenly displaying their own intolerance in this case?...

There are many questions that we would like to ask. Questions about where the funding is coming from? If this mosque is being funded by Saudi sources, then it is an even bigger slap in the face of Americans, as nine of the jihadis in the Twin Tower calamity were Saudis.

If Rauf is serious about building bridges, then he could have dedicated space in this so-called community centre to a church and synagogue, but he did not. We passed on this message to him through a mutual Saudi friend, but received no answer. He could have proposed a memorial to the 9/11 dead with a denouncement of the doctrine of armed jihad, but he chose not to....

Let's not forget that a mosque is an exclusive place of worship for Muslims and not an inviting community centre. Most Americans are wary of mosques due to the hard core rhetoric that is used in pulpits. And rightly so. As Muslims we are dismayed that our co-religionists have such little consideration for their fellow citizens and wish to rub salt in their wounds and pretend they are applying a balm to sooth the pain....

As for those teary-eyed, bleeding-heart liberals such as New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and much of the media, who are blind to the Islamist agenda in North America, we understand their goodwill.

Unfortunately for us, their stand is based on ignorance and guilt, and they will never in their lives have to face the tyranny of Islamism that targets, kills and maims Muslims worldwide, and is using liberalism itself to destroy liberal secular democratic societies from within.

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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/08/08/rosie-odonnells-staffer-ground-zero-mosque-opponents-nazis

Rosie O'Donnell's Staffer: Ground Zero Mosque Opponents Like Nazis
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By Tim Graham (Bio | Archive)
Sun, 08/08/2010 - 19:11 ET

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On Wednesday's edition of Rosie Radio on Sirius/XM satellite radio, Rosie O'Donnell's staffers sounded more radical than Rosie on the topic of the Ground Zero mosque proposal:

"GOOGLE PETE" MELE (staffer): I get very angry at [opposition to the mosque]...It is beyond un-American.

BOBBY PEARCE (staffer): Right. I agree.

MELE: ...This sort of persecution, blindly, of one group is what was going on in Germany in the 1930s...You can't say because [Muslims were behind the 9/11 attacks], we can't have them doing anything in our country.

DEIRDRE DOD (staffer): I don't think that's what [opponents of the mosque are] saying...They're saying [that they] want this as a sacred site...They're not saying, 'We hate [Muslims].'

Into this fracas came O'Donnell, with the peace offering that radical Islam and radical Christianity are very similar:

O'DONNELL: It's hard that people are associating [Islam] with terrorism. There are radical extremists in every religion, and it doesn't negate the teachings or the values of the religion, or the vast majority of people who follow the religion.

That's not to say that O'Donnell doesn't have a major problem with those radical Christians, as her Nazi roundup talk the next day showed.

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