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They didn't "try and put themselves in that spotlight," right-wing interests shined this absurd and despicable spotlight on them

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You wanna be cynical? Maybe the right waited a year, so that the folks behind the thing would have sunk a ton of cash into this site before the protest so they couldn't just pull out and go somewhere else. The right gives 'em a year to get comfortable with the idea and then pulls the rug out from under them.

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]One more mosque in lower Manhattan would not turn America into the EU. Not even close.

But keep dreamin'. I'm sure OBL is having the same dream, AU.

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Again, watch the video.

And it's not " one more mosque " <- See Niki ? He said MOSQUE! It's not a gorram YMMA ! ( young men's muslim association ), or any such nonsense.

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Almost 3,000 innocent people died on 9/11, and you want to compare that to " being fooled " by a radio broadcast ?

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This Imam is now taking his anti-American views abroad and telling Islamic countries that America is racist and intolerant. And our US taxpayer dollars are funding his betrayal of his country. And the State Dept., which approved this tour of lies and misconceptions, is not yet denouncing what he is saying.

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Exactly, and I believe him. But no political statements on this site please, for humanity's sake. Even ones that I otherwise support being disseminated and broadcast, like Rauf's bridge-building message. I think it's quite like if this guy Rauf and the Cordoba initiative decided to hand out fliers about Cordoba's history of Islamic greatness and tolerance - at the funerals of Western suicide bomber victims. It's tasteless and insensitive to use such venues as a platform. Yet there's an argument that such a venue is exactly where Rauf's message of reconciliation and understanding needs to be heard the most - isn't there?

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I'm saying there's a big spotlight on ground zero, and it's tacky for groups with a political message and agenda to try and put themselves in that spotlight.

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A year ago there was no spotlight! Laura Ingraham interviewed the Imam's wife on Fox News and she applauded what they were doing--she interviewed the wife, it was a human interest story, nothing more. And her husband was a respected Muslim moderate who had long since said everything the right is in an uproar about now.

The building has been in the news for a year and nothing about this "controversy" until a week ago.

They didn't "try and put themselves in that spotlight," right-wing interests shined this absurd and despicable spotlight on them for nothing but political gain. You got this whole thing backwards. It's the right, in the last two weeks that decided they could make political hay with this story so they did. Where were they a year ago? Why wasn't this an issue a year ago, when Glenn Beck was chatting with the Imam himself? Couldn't have anything to do with the 2010 elections coming up--no, no, not at all.

You wanna be cynical? Maybe the right waited a year, so that the folks behind the thing would have sunk a ton of cash into this site before the protest so they couldn't just pull out and go somewhere else. The right gives 'em a year to get comfortable with the idea and then pulls the rug out from under them.

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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What's the big "victory" that's allegedly being symbolized here?

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What do you KNOW about the history of Cordoba, that you haven't heard or read here?

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But no, of course reality revolves around the feelings and whimsical prejudices of those among us who would blame 1.66 billion people for the psychotic acts of 13.

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