Friday, 3 of September of 2010
If you’re a proponent of the Ground Zero mosque, I want you to listen to the newly discovered audio below of the Imam behind the proposed mosque and I want you to defend it.
Defend his suggestion that the United States is worse than Al Qaeda. Defend his use of the N word.
Defend it. I dare you.
More at Memeorandum.
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There’s a new argument emerging among supporters of the Ground Zero mosque. Distressed by President Obama’s waffling on the issue, they’re calling on former President George W. Bush to announce his support for the project, because in this case Bush understands better than Obama the connection between the war on terror and the larger question of America’s relationship with Islam. It’s an extraordinary change of position for commentators who long argued that Bush had done grievous harm to America’s image in the Muslim world and that Obama represented a fresh start for the United States. Nevertheless, they are now seeing a different side of the former president.
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“It’s time for W. to weigh in,” writes the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd. Bush, Dowd explains, understands that “you can’t have an effective war against the terrorists if it is a war on Islam.” Dowd finds it “odd” that Obama seems less sure on that matter. But to set things back on the right course, she says, “W. needs to get his bullhorn back out” — a reference to Bush’s famous “the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!” speech at Ground Zero on September 14, 2001.
But WAIT, there’s more…
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson is also looking for an assist from Bush. “I…would love to hear from former President Bush on this issue,” Robinson wrote Tuesday in a Post chat session. “He held Ramadan iftar dinners in the White House as part of a much broader effort to show that our fight against the al-Qaeda murderers who attacked us on 9/11 was not a crusade against Islam. He was absolutely right on this point, and it would be helpful to hear his views.”
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And Peter Beinart, a former editor of the New Republic, is also feeling some nostalgia for the former president. “Words I never thought I’d write: I pine for George W. Bush,” Beinart wrote Tuesday in The Daily Beast. “Whatever his flaws, the man respected religion, all religion.” Beinart longs for the days when Bush “used to say that the ‘war on terror’ was a struggle on behalf of Muslims, decent folks who wanted nothing more than to live free like you and me…”
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Bush himself has declined to comment on the mosque affair.
Good for him.
Maureen Dowd, Eugene Robinson and Peter Beinart can go FUCK themselves.
Read the views of a zillion other bloggers on this at Memeorandum.
From last night’s edition of the O’Reilly Factor. Charles Krauthammer dissects Obama’s attempt to have it both ways on the Ground Zero mosque in the brilliant fashion which can only be delivered by the K man.
Quote at 3:52… “He’s not a leader.” Watch it all…
The reaction from 9/11 Families For America is perfectly understandable. I’m fortunate in that I didn’t lose a loved one on 9/11, yet I was equally stunned by President Obama’s position on the subject of the so called Ground Zero mosque. 9/11 Families released a statement yesterday…
New York, NY, Aug. 14 — Barack Obama has abandoned America at the place where America’s heart was broken nine years ago, and where her true values were on display for all to see. Since that dark day, Americans have been asked to bear the burden of defending those values, again and again and again. Now this president declares that the victims of 9/11 and their families must bear another burden. We must stand silent at the last place in America where 9/11 is still remembered with reverence or risk being called religious bigots.
SNIP
We are stunned by the president’s willingness to disregard what Americans should be proud of: our enduring generosity to others on 9/11–a day when human decency triumphed over human depravity.No one who has lived this history and felt the sting of our country’s loss that day can truly believe that putting our families through more wrenching heartache can be an act of peace. On that day, when 3,000 of our fellow human beings were killed in barbaric act of raw religious intolerance unlike this country had ever seen, Americans did not turn outward with hatred or violence, we turned to each other, armed with nothing more than American flags and countless acts of kindness. In a breathtakingly inappropriate setting, the president has chosen to declare our memories of 9/11 obsolete and the sanctity of Ground Zero finished.
Of course Obama, with his finger eternally poised in the political wind, is already walking back his position…
Speaking to reporters today, President Obama drew a sharp line under his comments last night, insisting that his defense of the right to build a mosque does not mean he supports the project.
“I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding,” he said.
Oh, OK.
What’s that old saying about trying to put toothpaste back in the tube?
More at Memeorandum.
You may remember New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg from his insightful comments back in May, when he suggested the Times Square bombing attempt was probably done by someone who was opposed to ObamaCare.
Of course, we found out later it was Islamic terrorist wannabe, Faisal Shahzad.
Now that there are plans to build a giant mosque just steps from the site of the 9/11 attacks, Bloomberg the useful idiot is sharing his intelligence once more, by defending the idea.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says it would be un-American to investigate a mosque that is planned for construction near where the World Trade Center once stood.
Bloomberg was asked Monday about GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio’s demands last week that Democratic rival Andrew Cuomo investigate the mosque being developed near the Sept. 11 attack site.
The mayor has defended the mosque plans before. On Monday, he said investigating or vetting religious organizations goes against what the nation stands for.
Lazio has refused to say whether he opposes the mosque being built near the site. He said he is concerned that not enough is known about the funding sources.
HT to Dan Riehl.
Plans for the mosque to move forward face their “likely only” challenge in New York City tomorrow.
There is no “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza.
Welcome to reality, brought to you by Charles Krauthammer.
BONUS: Guess who was involved in the creation of this international astroturf.
Hat Tip to Smitty at The Other McCain.
I’m just wondering. What do humanitarians and peace activists do with knives, clubs and molotov cocktails?
UPDATE: PowerLine has a collection of photos showing more “peace activism.”
Because facts are stubborn things…
The Turkish organizers of the Gaza Strip-bound flotilla that was boarded this morning by Israeli commandos knew well in advance that their vessels would never reach Israeli waters. That’s because the organizers belong to a nonprofit that was banned by the Israeli government in July 2008 for its ties to terrorism finance.
The Turkish IHH (Islan Haklary Ve Hurriyetleri Vakfi in Turkish) was founded in 1992, and reportedly popped up on the CIA’s radar in 1996 for its radical Islamist leanings. Like many other Islamist charities, the IHH has a record of providing relief to areas where disaster has struck in the Muslim world.
However, the organization is not a force for good. The Turkish nonprofit belongs to a Saudi-based umbrella organization known to finance terrorism called the Union of Good (Ittilaf al-Kheir in Arabic). Notably, the Union is chaired by Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, who is known best for his religious ruling that encourages suicide attacks against Israeli civilians. According to one report, Qardawi personally transferred millions of dollars to the Union in an effort to provide financial support to Hamas. Read it all.
The Flotilla Attack Was a Terrorist Operation Against Jews
The critics are right: the flotilla attack today was indeed heinous and unforgivable. It is a moral outrage, and must be condemned by all civilized people. Indeed, it was an act of planned terrorism. We must stand as one and condemn it.
Alas, this is unlikely to happen. When one party is represented by ‘oppressed third world people of color,’ we’re not likely to get anywhere. And when it’s a premeditated assault by Islamists on Jews, turn the lights out.
The five points below, presented very briefly, are the essential facts of this incident. When dealing with people who have decided a priori that Israel is the bad guy and is therefore guilty in any conflict in which it is a party, no progress can be made. But most people have no strong opinion about the Israeli-Arab conflict. Reaching them is a moral imperative. This little guide for the perplexed should help people connect the dots and realize that — as usual — Israel has done nothing wrong and is being treated like, as Alan Dershowitz has aptly put it, the ‘Jew among nations,’ even when dealing with genocidal terrorists. Read the 5 Points.
‘Peace convoy’? This was an Islamist Terror Ambush
As the international community rushes to condemn Israel for the violence on board one of the ships in the Gaza flotilla, which left a reported 10 people dead and dozens injured, it is now obvious that the real purpose of this ‘armada of hate’ was not merely the further delegitimisation of Israel but something far worse.
Gaza’s markets are full of produce, thousands of tons of supplies are travelling into Gaza every week through the Israeli-controlled border crossings, and there is no starvation or humanitarian crisis. It was always obvious that the flotilla was not the humanitarian exercise it was said to be. Read it all.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Via HotAirPundit.
One of these men lives in reality, the other does not. Can you tell which is which?
As HotAirPundit notes in his post, the image of Steve Hayes shaking his head towards the end, tells you everything you need to know.
Hat tip to ZIP.
Liberal commentator Alan Colmes appeared on Megyn Kelly’s FOX News program yesterday and claimed that there’s no such thing as radical Islam.
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl couldn’t be reached for comment because in 2002, an Islamic radical used a knife to cut Daniel Pearl’s head off, while he was completely awake without any type of anesthesia.
Meanwhile, liberal media outlets continue to insist that recent attempted terror attacks on the US have absolutely nothing to do with radical Islam. After all, things like that don’t happen in liberal places like Massachusetts.
Left Bank of the Charles breaks it down: You might be a terrorist if…
Attorney General Eric Holder can’t even say the words, neither can Obama.
It’s not that hard to figure out who’s attacking America, you just have to live in reality.
Our leaders apparently, do not.
UPDATE: Gateway Pundit links. Thanks!