What's Harry Reid Got to do with It?

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What does Harry Reid have to do with it? Come to think of it, what does most everyone have to do with it? Muslims in New York want to create a mosque and a community center that happens to be near what has become known as “ground zero.” They have the space, they have the money, and they have the right. So what’s all the fuss about? Some of the people who were affected by the tragedy at the towers have expressed opposition because they think it is somehow inappropriate to build a mosque so close to ground zero, some going so far as to claim it is a slap in the face or even an attempt to start a terrorist center, and so on. This, of course, assumes all Muslims are terrorists or otherwise enemies, but that is obviously not true. Al Qaida, a small group of Saudi extremists attacked the towers, not Muslims in general. Furthermore, there has apparently been a smaller mosque at that location since long before the attack occurred. There is also said to be more than 100 mosques in New York City. And what you do not hear much about is the fact that not all of those affected by the disaster are opposed to having a mosque there. So why has this grown into such a monumental problem that it occupies the news most of the time every day now?

Republicans, that’s why. Once again the Republicans have taken what should have been basically a private matter between the builders and the city of New York and magnified it into something it is not. And once again the Democrats fell for it and have gone along with the gag. President Obama, who probably had no choice but to comment on the situation said simply that of course Muslims have the same rights as all other religions in the U.S. (what was he supposed to say, he doesn’t support the constitution), but then he foolishly later said he was commenting only on their right to build, not the wisdom of doing so (perhaps he had in mind the exaggerated claims of the MSM that “Obama strongly supports…”. Now having exposed himself to charges of being wishy-washy and trying to have it both ways, the Republicans are having a field day. And leave it to Republicans to turn it into a serious terrorist threat as well as an utter nonsensical dispute. Newt Gingrich, the world’s greatest pontificating, hypocritical, fake intellectual blowhard, suggested no mosques should be built in the U.S. until Christian religious buildings are built in Saudi Arabia, implying I guess, that we should model ourselves after that fine bastion of democracy. Other Republicans have said we wouldn’t allow the Japanese to build a place like that in Pearl Harbor, or allow Nazis to build something like that next of Auschwitz, and so on. Never mind that Nazis and wartime Japanese were our sworn enemies whereas Muslims are perfectly legitimate American citizens with all the attendant rights that go along with that exalted status.

What should have been an ordinary private transaction between some Muslims and the City of New York has been made into a serious national, and even international problem, mostly because of the unconscionable and purely politically driven lies and distortions of Republicans. About the only person that has kept his head about this was Mayor Bloomberg. The Governor of New York, Patterson, want to negotiate a different site, Obama belatedly wants to not have to say one way or the other what he thinks about it, and Harry Reid, who doesn’t live in New York, and has no legitimate reason for opposing it, or even commenting on it, has said he thinks it should be built elsewhere. I find it impossible to believe that Harry Reid is anti-Muslim, or that he truly cares where they build a mosque, but he has to out-extreme what’s-her-name Angle in order to prove to conservative voters in Nevada that he’s just as bigoted as they are. Someone said he lacks moral courage, I suspect that is only part of the problem, he knows what it takes to get re-elected. It is true, however, that once again Democrats have proven themselves incapable of exercising the courage of their convictions. They should have said the Muslims have the right to build a mosque on private property wherever they wish and then butted out entirely. It seems that right is right and wrong is wrong, except when it comes to politics. Democrats have proven time and time again they are apparently too dim-witted to understand the Republicans don’t want to merely retake power, they want to utterly destroy them. Not only that, Republicans seem to be willing to even destroy our country in their mad quest for power and dominance. And why not, now that their Corporate masters virtually control the world and have economies that dwarf those of most nations, who needs old-fashioned nation-states anyway?

LKBIQ:
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt

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