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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Obama’s Albatross
Site Housing Islamic Teachings
“Radical Islam Victory Tower”?
Rush Limbaugh calls it the ‘Hamosque’…
GaZM
I’m sure they can work that with those that are for, and those that are no’s
Mohammad’s Happy House.
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911 SHARIA VICTORY MOSQUE works for me.
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And the much maligned President George Bush 43 gave freedom and removed genocide to millions of Muslims–courtesy of the U.S. Military.
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We don’t owe the Muslims anything more than we have already done. We paid in blood to save them.
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Rocketman
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Keep the name Cordoba (it is appropriate as the newest and most western conquered territory) and rename New York Dar-al-dhimmi.
Imam Obama’s Mosque?
I like my term…
Caliphate-On-Hudson
Graveyard Dance Club
Sadly, this is coming closer to reality.
Man-Caused-Disaster Site Place of Worship
How about “Mosqateerland?”
You could write an entire post on this excerpt. When can I debate the idiot who wrote this?
1) The US has more Muslim blood on its hands? What’s the body count if we eliminate the “non-innocent.” How come bad guys are in our total? We’re d@@@@d good at killing the non-innocent ones. Or does the AP consider them all innocent?
2) Innocent non-Muslims? How many innocent Muslims has Al Quiada killed? Why are they excluded. Killing your own doesn’t count. If that’s true, then the U.S. black and white murder rates would be near zero.
3) How many innocent Muslims did the US deliberately intend to kill? What happened to those who did?
4) How many innocent Muslims did Al Quiada deliberatley intend to kill? What happened to those who did?
I do not have another name for the mosque but I do have another name for AP staff…. enemy collaborators.
1. Obamamosque.
2. The Mosque formerly known as the Ground Zero Mosque.
How bout the “Armageddon Mosque” of New York.
It was a Burlington Coat Factory Outlet… How about Burqas-R-Us?
The Crater’s Edge mosque.
I have lots of names for it but none of them are allowed here. I guess if a particular group of religious fanatics want to commit suicide by building this radioactive bomb magnet in NYC with the mayor’s permission then so be it. Let the fireworks begin.
I would like to officially launch the Flyoverman fan club…
awesome post F-man!
it should be seen by the jerks at AP ASAP…
The WeStoneGays Mosque
How about the Mosque that was never built?
“mohammedan House of In Yo’ Face”
“Tahleebahn West”
“Joe Momma Mosque”
“Mohamed Atta Memorial Mosque, Cultural Center, and Fellowship Hall”
“The mohammedan Flying Circus and Coffee House”
ECS
“Infidel.” Dhimmitude is NOT an option!
I wonder if they’d still want the existing building if I hung my mezuzah on the door?
Hormel House
Burlington Terrorist Factory
AlohaGuy–LOL
Spamalot!
Mosque-hole-tear Club.
Call it Mohammad’s Ear. Because if its ever built it will have more listening devices installed in the walls, floors, ceilings, and elevators than even the KGB installed in the American Embassy in Moscow some years ago.
Hamasque…
My personal favorite!
Osama Towers.
Hey, it’s their right, and they don’t mean anything bad by it.
Cordoba Tower of Terror
Hope and Change Central
The Associated Press Mosque
New York Fire Training Academy
Bloomberg Moral Equivilance Center
The Fake Mosque
The Sheik Yerbouti Center for Cultural Awareness and Dialogue.
No wait, that would be the gay bar next door…
Camp Stake-in-the-Heart
The Killing Fields.
Oh wait,it has been used already after the Dems cut and ran in another war.
Being retired Navy, I’m fond of:
CINCJIHADLANT
Bullseye
Either
9/11 Victory Mosque
or
Salt In The Wound Mosque
http://tastyinfidelicacies.blogspot.com/2010/08/salt-in-wound.html
That Muslim church next to Greg Gutfeld’s gay bar.
On a much more serious note, when Barack Hussein Obama
publicly confessed the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, he “took Shahada“.
What is the significance of that? …
The Gorelick and Clarke Building
The New ‘Get What You Voted For’ City Government Building
CINCJIHADLANT
Oops, didn’t mean to double-post. Must be some timelag today.
Visit IslamiCity.com and you’ll see how conversions to Islam are scrolled as follows (“Br.” is for “Brother”, “Sr.” is for “Sister”)
The confessions of Obama’s own mouth reveal him to be a Muslim, not a Christian.
The Spite and Malice Mosque
Call it what they called Obama’s book when they published it in the world’s most populous Muslim nation…
Assault Hope: From Jakarta to the White House
Maybe we’ll get lucky and we can call it “Gone in 60 Seconds”.
Let’s call it what it is, folks: the Mohammed Atta Memorial.
Imagine yourself standing in the pit of the National 9/11 Memorial, looking up, and seeing the “Cordoba House”, with it’s pseudo-WTC design and exterior that suggests smoke rising and a Crescent moon-shaped hole at the approximate location of where a plane hit the first WTC tower.
Then imagine hearing the sound of the Adhan being broadcast from loudspeakers at the Cordoba Victory Mosque that seeks a Muslim Caliphate in this country within the decade.
The web site of the Cordoba Initiative has recently been scrubbed.
Their stated mission used to include the following:
“Eight hundred years ago” was 1210. What were things like in Cordoba in 1210? It was part of the Almohad Dynasty, a Muslim dynasty which conquered all of northern Africa as far as Libya, together with Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia, now southern Spain and Portugal).
The Cordoba Initiative’s stated mission is “to achieve a tipping point in Muslim-West relations within the next decade, bringing back” the conditions of Cordoba during the period of Muslim domination, when they “coexisted” with Christians and Jews who lived in a condition of Dhimmitude.
On August 19th, 2010 at 5:03 pm, BuckeyeSam said:
1. Obamamosque.
Saw a news reader say that is how it is labelled on the newswires last night.
+1
A large part of Obama’s time in the Illinois State Senate was spent voting “present”.
But in his first year of elected office, as the Member of the Illinois Senate from the 13th district, Barack Hussein Obama was the sole sponsor of SENATE RESOLUTION 90_SR0110, which concluded with the following:
Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain was not “Tone Deaf”, it was Pitch-Perfect…
…to the Cordoba Initiative.
May I suggest — Mohammed’s House of Ill Repute.
The Bunker
When Pigs Fly Mosque…
Remember the “Scare Force One” victory fly-over?
How about “THE ATTA MEMORIAL HOUSE OF OBAMA/BLOOMBERG DHIMMITUDE”?
not quite off topic but from the Los Angeles Slimes:
Islam – working its way by force into our culture inch by inch.
*How about “The Site Formerly Known as The Ground Zero Mosque Site That Will Never Get Built Site”; Works for most Americans.
*And in regards to the polling showing 25% believe P-BO to be a muslim; Was there ever any question about it?
Allah 51
How about the “Man-Caused Disaster Memorial”
or, simply,
Public Restroom (men only)
Personally, I think Obama’s religion is Narcissism. He worships himself. Anything he says, does, thinks, or believes stems from that.
How about:
Pork Chops ‘R’ Us
Bacon World
Ham Heaven
I think I’m hungry… A Wendy’s Baconator sounds reeeeeeally good right now.
Zabijacka mosque
Despite the fact that it is only 500 feet or so from where the towers stood, the landing gear from one of the hijacked planes smashed into the roof of the building and caused major damage. Therefore, the site of the would-be GZM (G-d forbid) IS part of Ground Zero proper and therefore should be off limits completely.
QED.
The Audacity of Islam mosque
The Death to the Infidels Mosque
I am with you on that. That statement about Muslim blood on our hands is awful. Who wrote that? They need to go live in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan with their bloods.
Taqqiyah Mosque
Landing Gear Center. Everybody(parts) welcome
Jew Mosque
Bin Laden Cultural Center
Zawahiri Community Center
Islamic Celebration Mosque
Can we change the street name too?
How about Hijacker Way?
The 9/11 Mosque at 19 Highjacker Way and Wahabi Ave.
I’d like to know how much more it’s going to take before they get the idea that we will never submit.
Interfaith Mosque- Jews and Christians use back door
I KILL YOU!
VA
Victory over America
I have done my part toward not allowing Islam to grow in my world. I stopped being friends with a person I found out was Muslim, I reguarly deride the beliefs of Muslims to anyone, including Muslims, who talk about Islam, and I refused a match-makers attempt at setting me up with a woman who was a Muslim and told her I would not accept Islam in my life nor would I allow any daughter of mine to be raised as a muslim, as such an outcome would encourage her to marry a muslim man, hence ensuring her life would be lived as a second-class citizen to his demands.
It is the worst thing one can do to not speak out and treat Islam as some acceptable form of religious worship.
Suggested name for the mosque:
Obama’s Orgasm
or
Obama’s Childhood Dream
Lower Mosquehattan
Sorry, I need to correct the second name I suggested for the mosque:
Obama’s Childhood Wet Dream
The Mosque which shall not be named
Two words: F ‘ ING COLLABORATORS
We know who you are.
“The Holy Place” adjacent to the holey place.
Every time the Democrat[ic Soclialist]s restrict us from accessing our own oil, (whether that be in the Gulf, in oil shale, or in ANWR), we are sending money to Communist and Islamic countries to buy oil that we could have acquired ourselves.
For 40 years, every time we pay at the gas pump, we have been funding the Islamic Revival
Drill Here! Drill Now!
“Bulls-eye Mosque”…. and you can take that any way you want.
To those who would argue that the site isn’t close enough to ground zero to qualify as “close”, I say “bunk”. I’m confident that they purchased the closest site that was available. Could they have located further away? No doubt — there would be thousands of sites available. Could they have located any closer? Highly unlikely. This was not an accident or a coincidence. Wake the heck up, Islamofascist enablers.
The Evil Mosque-iteer Community Recruitment Center
As always, “building a bridge” to Hades in the name of their Dark Lord.
Sphincter Central Tower and Nambla Center
(We all know why camels are referred to as ships of the desert, right?)
Jim Treacher suggests “Debris Field Mosque”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Trade_Center,_NY_-_2001-09-11_-_Debris_Impact_Areas.svg
I’ve been referring to it as “Mecca West.”
The Hiemetown Dam
The Hope and Change Boodle Mosque.
How about: “Jihad Martyrs Memorial Mosque”?