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Bill Press Keeps Ground Zero Mosque Debate in Proper Perspective

By Doug Powers • August 17, 2010 11:19 AM

**Written by Doug Powers

Bill Press: “Sometimes you have to stand up and say, this is wrong — the wrong place… It’s a slap to the American people… There are some places where cheap political tricks should not be allowed.”

Oh wait, that’s not Bill Press talking about the Ground Zero mosque — the above is what Press said about Glenn Beck’s rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Here’s what Press said about the Ground Zero mosque:

“Let me tell you something, first of all, we’re not talking ground zero, we’re talking two blocks from ground zero, there are apartment buildings there, there’s a catholic church there, a pizza parlor there. there are hotels there. There might even be a porn shop there. This is not a sacred site, this is all about religion and the opponents, there’s only one reason to oppose this mosque, and that is to paint Islam as an evil religion and to paint all Muslims and equate them with a 19 terrorist who’s flew into that building. it is wrong. it is un-American and the people against it ought to be ashamed of playing a cheap political trick.”

Condemning an entire group of people for the actions of a few is wrong. Got that?

Okay, with that bit of wisdom in mind, let’s go back to a Tea Party/Glenn Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Press went a step further:

“In a slap at both President Lincoln and Dr. King, not to mention the American people, the National Park Service has given Glenn Beck permission to hold a Tea Party rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28 – 47 years to the day after Martin Luther King gave his magnificent ‘I Have A Dream’ speech”… If you ask me, that’s like granting al Qaeda permission to hold a rally on September 11 – at Ground Zero.”

Tea Partiers are like Al Qaeda even though the only thing the Tea Party has in common with 9/11 is that it’s trying to prevent another one. In this case, Press is not condemning an entire group of people for the actions of a few, but rather demonizing an entire group of people for the actions of none of them.

The Tea Party is comparable to the Islamic terrorists who murdered thousands on 9/11, but it’s un-American to criticize a mosque near Ground Zero because to do so is to blame an entire group for the actions of a few? This is hilariously misguided and insane even for Bill Press.

Press has also adopted an angle that’s being parroted by others in the media: We shouldn’t be having a moral freakout over a mosque when there are strip clubs, an adult/lingerie store and an off-track betting parlor also nearby.

That would be a logical rebuttal to Ground Zero mosque critics, provided the Twin Towers had been taken down by six pole dancers, three pairs of edible underwear and a bookie.

**Written by Doug Powers

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#101

On August 18th, 2010 at 9:33 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf – Co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Cordoba Initiative. He is also founder of the ASMA Society (American Society for Muslim Advancement) and Imam of Masjid Al-Farah, a New York mosque twelve blocks from Ground Zero. A leader in the effort to build religious pluralism and integrate Islam into modern America, he has dedicated his life to building bridges between Muslims and the West.

He’s already Imam of a mosque 12 blocks from Ground Zero.

So why is he working so hard to build a mosque 2 blocks from Ground Zero, that would be tall enough to look down into the pit (and presumably down into the future 9/11 memorial there).

Imagine yourself standing in the future 9/11 memorial, looking up, and seeing a 13-story mosque, designed to look like the WTC with smoke rising up along it’s sides, and a crescent and star in the approximate proportional location to where an aircraft struck the WTC…
#102

On August 18th, 2010 at 10:00 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

The Shariah Project – Shariah (Islamic holy law) requires a nation to care for its citizens’ welfare, provide religious freedom, offer educational opportunities, protect minorities, and allow citizens to participate in their own governance. The Shariah Project will enumerate the societal – as opposed to religious – obligations that Shariah requires of a nation governed according to Islamic principles. The Project will strengthen the capacity of moderate Muslims to employ the vocabulary and principles of Islam to reduce conflict and promote democratic values in Islamic societies.

Ask the Imam directly:
Do you envision America being an Islamic society?
Operating under Shariah law?
#103

On August 18th, 2010 at 1:09 pm, flmom said:

granite said:

Thanks for the vindication. Though for what it’s worth, it would make more sense for the plural to be pooves, as in hoof_hooves.
#104

On August 19th, 2010 at 11:27 am, cheapseat said:

Islam is the enemy. We are not being attacked by a country, but by a militaristic religion bent on world domination and conquest. To those who say I’m wrong, SHOW ME THE DAMNED MODERATE MUSLIMS TURNING IN THE BOMB THROWERS. All over the world, especially in the middle east, muslims are INDISCRIMINATELY murdering other people. They will kill you if you aren’t a muslim and attempt to seek any other religious indoctrination in these countries which have the MODERATE label like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc. Until those moderate muslims start getting into the fight against the bomb throwers, I say all muslims are the enemy, and we should play tit for tat with bombers. You bomb NY, we bomb Mecca, you bomb Washington, we bomb Medina. This is a war against Islam as long as Islam is who is killing Americans. When it becomes a war against a country, we will fight that country. Until then don’t hide behind that religious dodge while bombing everyone who doesn’t agree with your religion. When Islam starts protecting the rights of nonmuslims to practice their religion in the middle east, I’ll start thinking of Islam as a religion and not a military.
#105

On August 19th, 2010 at 3:39 pm, DBNinKY said:

Bill Press is jealous: for while Glenn Beck was hired away from CNN, Press was fired by CNN for tanking Crossfire’s ratings!