Help AP Writers Find a Substitute Phrase for ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ — Update: Rep. Grayson Offers Suggestions
**Written by Doug Powers
The Associated Press is now prohibiting its staff from using the words “Ground Zero mosque” in stories:
The Associated Press, one of world’s most powerful news organizations, issued a memo today advising staff to avoid the phrase “Ground Zero mosque.”
The Upshot reported Tuesday that the AP started using the phrase “Ground Zero mosque” in some headlines in late May. The New York Times, for one, has consciously avoided that phrasing.
The AP began using the phrase as the controversy over the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque in Lower Manhattan started bubbling up to the national level. Many news organizations, across platforms, routinely dub the project the “Ground Zero Mosque.”
The AP has always been clear in the text of stories that the project would be built two blocks from Ground Zero and not on the actual site. But AP headlines, at times, ran with the phrase adopted by opponents of the project and amplified by the media.
Now the news organization is taking steps to make sure that no longer occurs.
The AP memo is here. Give it a read and see if you think it’s simply a re-tread of a pro-mosque talking points memo (including a quote reminding AP staff that “the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaida has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims”). Fortunately for AP fact checkers, this mosque debate is taking place in between Sarah Palin book releases.
There’s no official line around the WTC site where “ground zero” ends, however I’m fairly certain that if the Associated Press office was two blocks away and hit by debris on 9/11, we’d be reading AP stories about “the horror we experienced at Ground Zero” to this day.
In any case, since “Ground Zero Mosque” is officially a no-no for the AP, here are a couple of suggestions for Associated Press writers to choose from to get us started. They could even use these on a rotating basis to avoid repetition. Feel free to add to this short list and I’ll try and put some of them up when I get home later:
-“The Hope & Change Experience”
-“House of worship in relative proximity to where Russell Simmons believes Christians bombed the WTC”
-“Project Bloomberg”
-“Site very far from WTC crater where faulty landing gear struck a now defunct Burlington Coat Factory turned peaceful multi-faith cultural center”
-“TAI Fridays”
Update: Naturally, nutmuffin Florida Rep. Alan Grayson has opined. After blaming 9/11 on Bush (of course), Grayson referred to the Ground Zero mosque as an “athletic center” and a “health club” — which is about as wildly exaggerated as calling Grayson a “lucid Congressman”:
Update II:
Doug Ross collected some of the best of your suggestions:
Here’s just a sampling of some great ideas:
15. Landing Gear Mosque
14. Project Bloomberg
13. 9/11 Victory Mosque
12. Daily Kosque
11. Caliphate-on-Hudson
10. The Gorelick & Clarke Building
9. Mosque formerly known as the Ground Zero Mosque
8. Hamosque
7. Crater’s Edge
6. Bullseye
5. The Mohammed Atta Memorial
4. Hormel House
3. The Debris Field Mosque
2. Burlington Terrorist Factory
1. New York Fire Training Academy
Awesome job! Hopefully we’ve managed to help out the AP.
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They should build it in the Greenwich village and call it Al-Gayda house.
…as long as we are being so fake about everything…
How about the Muslim Arts Museum of Mohammad Self-Portraits? (certain daycare in the rear)
It would fit right in with much of the crowd that sees no problem with this.
…or the Islamic Friendship and Women’s Center?
Will it double as a polling place for Democrat primaries with their own permanent Black Panther welcoming committee?
There are a few things that the atheist Allahpundit (over at HotAir) doesn’t realize.
One of them is… Barack Hussein Obama took Shahada
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“The Infidels figured out what ‘Cordoba House’ means, so we had to rename it…”
The Malcolm X “By any means necessary” Center for American Destruction.
Actual quote from “The Audacity of Hope” [pg. 261]:
The “We Won Mosque.”
A few minutes ago I was reading a article at HuffPo on the issue and Howard Deans opinion on it. A comment typed in all caps by some enraged spittle slinging liberal jumped out at me, stating: “THERE’S NO MOSQUE BEING BUILD ON OR NEAR GROUND ZERO.” It was followed by a reply that I loved. Simple, right to the point, and certain to leave many a libtard sputtering but….but…but.
“Since its not a Mosque then its not a freedom of religion issue! Right?”
LOL. Sweet. Gotta remember that one for future use.
Osama-Obama-Rama
SHARIA (Special Headquarters Assigned to the Radical Islamization of America) HOUSE
I think we should only refer to it from now on as the “Osama Bin Laden Victory over the Infidels Mosque”.
Some names for the mosque near ground zero – 9/11/2001 site:
The Religion of Peace, Love, Tolerance, Understanding, Compassion, Mercy, Sensitivity, Respect, and 9/11/2001 Terrorist Attack Community Outreach Center.
The Word Trade Center Mount Mosque.
The “We Kicked Your Ass on 9/11/2001 and Now we are rubbing it in your faces, ha! ha! ha! Mosque.
The USA Is Stupid and This Mosque is a Testament to their foolishness in their over tolerance mosque.
The Islam is a Religion of Peace, Love, Tolerance, Understanding, and ignore all our violent Jihad activity Mosque.
How About “Islamic Jihad and Taqya Central-West East Coast Headquarters Mosque”
ITookTheRedPill,
That was a great selection to illustrate the demented mindset of el Presidente del Savior del Mundo, y Messiah, The One, Mister Hope and Change, and even the “Muslims” and their claims of Islamophobia and abuse.
Boo friggin’ hoo!!!
I am of mixed race. I am NOT a Muslim. Yet me, my Asian-Oriental wife and her family, black family members, etc., have all suffered as a result of members of the Reliigion of Peace, Love, Tolerance, and Understanding – Muslims.
After the numerous attacks by Muslims in this century alone throughout the world, their help given to Hitler’s Germany in rounding up Jews and others in WW II, their 1400 years of Religious related violence, wars, coereced conversions, butchering of millions of Hindus, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Zoroastrians, Sikhs, Confuscianists, etc. for the past 14 centuries, their repeated slaughters via Jiahid militant terrorist attacks in India, Israel, South America, Nothern Africa, South East Asia, the Phillipines, the Middle East, Europe, etc., their love of violence and hatred, their misogynistic treatement toward women – not just in Muslim nations, but throughout the world, including here in the USA, in Britain, in Australia, etc., their blatant abuse of children – teaching them hatred, strapping bombs onto them and sending them off to die while killing innocent men, women, and children, and more, I have absolutely NO interest in becoming a Muslim, nor can it be called “The Religion of Peace, Love, Tolerance, Understanding, etc..
With that said, while not a Muslim, not an Arab, not a North African, Middle Easterner, South Asian, etc., I have STILL been targeted for harasssment after 9/11/2001 as a direct result of the actions of the Muslim Jihadi blood and death cultsists of the “Religion of Peace, Love, Tolerance, Understanding, Mercy, Compassion … ” as have millions of other non-Muslims.
My father-in-law and mother-in-law, both Chinese, were also the targets of harassment as a direct result of Religion of Peace, Love, Tolerance, Understanding Islamic Jihadi Miltant blood and death cult activists.
My cousin’s son-in-law, a black man and life time active member of the United States Coast Guard was also frequently harassed as a result of the members of the Religion of Peace, Love, Tolerance, Understanding, Mercy, Compassion, Cute little puppies, cute little Kittens, cute little Bunnies, etc., Islamic Jihadi Militant blood and death cult members who read their Q’rans, Sharia law, etc., and who hate the West, Infidels, Jews, and so forth.
My wife and I and our children were also set apart and treated like suspected terrorists at the airport, frisked, scanned, wanded, etc., for all the world to see.
Again, we are a couple comprised of a mixed race individual – me, and a woman of Chinese decent, my wife. Neverthelesss, we are still treated badly while the government worries about not offending Muslims and Muslim sensibilities, and sensitivities.
You see, normal US citizens, including white haired old ladies with walkers, old men who can barely see through their eye glasses, with shaking hands, pregnant women, breast feeding mothers, black US servicement IN UNIFORM with their orders in hand, Asian couples, families comprised of a mother, a father, and small children, and so forth, have all been treated like crap as a result of Religion of Peace, Love, Tolerance, Understanding, Mercy, Compassion, etc., etc., Islamic Jihadi militant blood and death cult adherents.
They inconvenienced US!
We suffer becausee of THEIR actions!
They cause us to be humiliated, harassed, frisked, wanded, delayed, treated like prisoners in some prison for thugs – and don’t dare speak up, don’t dare express outrage or you’ll be arresed at the airport – all because of Muslim violent terrorist killers, yet the Muslims are the ones who get to meet directly with US government officials crying a river at how badly they fell. The government officials promise that the Muslims will be treated really good and that the government will work to prevent them from feeling put upon, yet we, the non-Muslims, US citizens who are NOT terrorists, and NOT sympathetic to their cause of violence, death, and destruction, dominance, misogyny, etc,. are not afforded the same respect!
I don’t want to hear their whining, crying, and belly aching any lonter. They are given special care, treated with kid gloves. They are afforded better concern and respect than the rest of us.
If you fear strange men and their actions on the aircraft, shut up! Don’t say a word!
If you speak up, you get the air line crew in trouble, the air line in trouble and sued, and you get yourself and other passengers who express their concerns and fears in trouble, accused of Islamophobia, bigotry, racism, xenophobia, and more, and you risk getting sued and made into public enemy number one.
The US Air incident from two years ago is NOT the only example of this, but it does fine as an example.
After 9/11 there were NO confirmed incidents of violence or vandalism against Muslims by anyone who wasn’t a Muslim in the USA, yet there were numerous disproven accusations of such. Every time we turn around there is another Muslim organization crying about how Muslims are misunderstood or being treated unfairly, but when you hear the claims and find out what really happened you discover that there was nothing done to garner outrage. It was just another case of Victicrat, Religion of Perpetual Outrage nonsense once again.
After 9/11 U.S. citizens actually stepped forward and volunteered to keep an eye on Muslim families, their neighborhoods, their mosques, businesses, etc., in order to protect them from the expected backlash against Muslims from the mean, nasty, bigoted, racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic US citizenry.
That backlash NEVER happened. Instead the US citizens befriended the Muslims and repeated the mantra “Islam is a Religion of Peace, Love, Tolerance, and Understanding!”
The only incident of a murder post 9/11 at all related to Islam was the murder of a turban wearing Sikh gas station owner by a crazed individual out west. However there have been numerous violent attacks throughout the USA perpetrated by Muslims while screaming Allah Akbhar and other nonsense, such as the Mohammad sniping spree throughout the country, with a large concentration of sniping murders in the Washington, D.C, Virginia, Maryland area, the attack on the Jewish Community Center in Washington State, the attempted homicide by SUV vehicle driven onto the grass through the campus student meeting area at the University of North Carolina by a nutty Muslim, the attack at Fort Hood, the “honor” killings of wives and daughters by Muslim men, and more, all done here in the USA by Muslims directly related to, and due to their Muslim beliefs.
So, I don’t want to hear their crying, their “woe is me” baloney!
We are the ones who are inconvenienced, mistreated, abused, disrespected, pushed around, delayed, and indoctrinated with nonsense post 9/11, not Muslims. They are the ones who are praised and who our government and president bend over backward to appease, satisfy, and pleasure.
Again, thanks for your fitting excerpt from the Messiah’s, Barack Hussein Obama’s (Peace Be Unto Him! Praise His Holy Name. All Honor, Worship, and Love be showered at His Holy Feet /sarcasm = off) book.
Option 1: “Nowhere Near Ground Zero Mosque”
Option 2: “9/11 Endzone Dance Mosque”
Option 3: An unpronounceable glyph that resembles an upraised middle finger.
On August 20th, 2010 at 3:04 am, William said:
I couldn’t have said it better.
As to the name of the mosque, how about the Barack Hussein Obama mosque?
‘Future Lure/Catalyst/Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Americans’ Hatred, Bigotry and Islamophobia’
http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/why-build-the-mosque-at-ground-zero/
“Mmmm Bacon” mosque
“Please Blow It Up” mosque
“Ass To The Wind” mosque
“Kaa’baa Daa’baa Doo’doo” mosque
The AP can always be counted on, when the truth fails them, to try to weasel word the liberals way out.
I like Ground Zero Mosque — It has meaning, it is true, and that is the problem.
The 9\10 Memorial
Don’t worry about Grayson…he won’t be around much longer. He’s trailing any of the Republican challengers by 10 points.
You know, if someone were to spread pig’s blood at the site, I’m pretty sure they’d be hesitant to build there. It’s kind of like holy water is to vampires.
I like Rush’s name the best, the “Hamasque” after Hamas.
Thanks for the update – you just made my day.
Suggestions:
X Mosque
Hell No Mosque
PC Mosque
Friends of Obama Mosque
How about calling the Grou…er, sorry, “that thing being built in NYC by a faithful anti-terrorist guy who, oh-by-the-way just happens to be Muslim”, anywho, how ’bout callin’ it “Allah’s Middle Finger to the American Infidels”?
Sounds about right to me.
The F U Amedica Mosk.
I love how people say well its not on Ground Zero, its two blocks away. However, the building across the street (100 Church) had debris from the WTC on its roof (I worked in that building at the time.) The building one black away was damaged (90 Church Street the US Post Office.) The buidling diagonally across, was pretty much destroyed, and remains closed today (Futterman Hall.)
So to say its not in the one square block that housed the WTC is true. To say that it is removed from the site because it is two street blocks (not avenue blocks) away, is intellectually dishonest!
Hey William, visit more often K? Good read.
And yes, I’ve seen elderly men (in wheelchairs) wearing their Pearl Harbor/WW2 Vet vests&caps being wanded for inter-island flights in the Hawaiian Islands.
Actually, I believe the terrorists could use someone like that to get a pass onto a flight when in fact, they have a bomb strapped to their wheelchair. They are that clever. We need to check them just as much as anyone else. They check me at airports all the time and I am a little old white haired lady. I don’t mind. I think that being a minority might make someone more sensative to being wanded when in fact, the wanding is done randomly.
That’s because his muslim friends refer to it as the fitna center and he mistook what they said.
John Deaux, that’s classic.
I think anyone that has seen video of the WTC towers falling knows that debris (non-organic and organic) was distributed for several blocks in all directions.
On a related topic, I’M LAUGHING MY (_!_) OFF THAT ALLAH IS PUNISHING THOSE FINE MUSLIMS IN THE SWAT VALLEY OF PAKISTAN WITH THESE FLOODS. And why in the world would we spend one more dime trying to help these murdering thugs. Every dead taliban is a peace loving non bomb throwing muslim.
Maybe so but better profiling just might make that happen less. It was a pitiful sight. And very disrespectful.
I’m with you cheapseat!
And here in BHO’s America, God is humbling me/us daily.
Allahak Bar!
I am thinking of calling it after one of my favorite carrier battle groups Joint Task Force.
We will call it Jihad Training Force Site 1
GSP
Of course calling it Jar-Jar Binks Bar and Sharia Whore House has a nice ring too.
GSP
The “I Quess We Forgot” Mosque
Kiss off AmediKa Mosque
We Don’t Care What You Think Mosque
Hamas R Us Mosque
Jihadi Love Mosque
If President Eisenhower were in office today, he’d declare war on Musims and deport them. We’ve had enough of these lying, PC protected criminals hiding behind their “religion”.
Well if you think about it – a WWII vet in a wheelchair could still kick Obama’s ass.
Aloha, Aloha Guy!
That is a clever comment.
I have made a similar statement, save I employed the use of my wife in the scenario, namely, that Mister Puniverse, the Skinniest President in the World in History, Mister Weakling, Mister Condescending, Mister Underwhelming, Mister Overrated, Mister Secrecy, The Lord of the Universe, The Savior of Mankind, The Messiah, Barack Hussein Obama (Peace be unto Him. Praise His Holy Name. Prostrate at his Holy Feet in worship, adoration, obedience, and total submission. Let every head bow in reverence at the utterance of his name, and let every living thing keep his name in their hearts, on their tongue, and on their lips at all times) wouldn’t last 30 seconds with my wife, who is 5’1 3/4 ” tall and mother of four children.
Mister Puniverse is a clear example of the unqualified rising to the level of incompetence, while also illustrating the words attributed to P.T. Barnum, (alledgely) “There’s a sucker born every minute” as this applies to those who see Obama as the Greatest, and those who voted for Him.
Allelua!
Praise the Lord (Barack Hussein Obama) and pass the peanut butter.
Mahalo!
Maui No ka oi
This guy was a junior Senator that spent most of his 2 years as Senator campaigning for President. He never ran anything. No one in the Senate gave much thought to anything he had to say. Now he acts like he is the smartest person in the world and has the answer for everything.
He really doesn’t have a clue what he is doing but sure acts like he does. That is the really scary part. People follow this fool because he acts worldly.
He says he put the car in “D” to drive it our of the ditch. Well, he put it n “D’, cranked it hard left, and is driving us right over the cliff.
We need to put the car back in “R” before we plunge over the edge.
Indeed. Anyone who votes “D” for “Drive” is voting for this…
Speaking of the Associated (with Terrorists) Press, check out their damage control propaganda today:
They seem to overlook the simple fact that Barack Hussein Obama took Shahada.
With his own mouth, Barack Hussein Obama has publicly confessed the Muslim confession of faith, but there is no record of Barack Hussein Obama ever having publicly confessed the Christian confession of faith.
Barack Hussein Obama has never publicly confessed “Jesus Christ is Lord”.
But he has confessed the words that Muslims recognize as the Muslim confession of faith.
Yes, by Obama’s own confession, he is a Muslim.
Face the facts, Associated Press, and stop spreading false rumors.
The Associated Press is spinning faster than an Iranian centerfuge…