There’s a lot of 9th degree black belts in Stupid being earned these days. In particular, the legs that the New York mosque multi-use community center “controversy” has taken on is even amazing my cynical ass. It’s not the fact that this xenophobic nonsense exists, or even the component of Real Merkins butting in on a matter in the only other U.S. city they hate more than San Francisco. To be honest, I can’t put a finger on why I didn’t just come to expect this as the new normal.
Anyway, Black Reagan put in his two cents, and his own damn party scattered, including, well…:
The Senate’s top Democrat on Monday came out against plans to build a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, moving away from President Barack Obama on the controversial election-year issue.Locked in a tight race, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid became the highest profile Democrat to respond to Obama, who last week backed the right for the developers to build a mosque near ground zero. Since his comments Friday, the Democratic president and his aides have worked to explain the statement, which drew criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike.
“The First Amendment protects freedom of religion,” said Jim Manley, a Reid spokesman. “Senator Reid respects that, but thinks that the mosque should be built some place else.” (emphasis mine)
If I even have to explain that this is naked pandering, check your brain. That said, there’s no pandering without a target. Reid’s target is obviously those who, while maybe not outright bigoted, still think of this proposed building as offending their sense of P.C. That’s completely irrelevant, but whatever, that never stopped anybody.
Critics have said the location of the mosque is insensitive because the terrorists who struck were Islamic extremists. The plans call for a $100 million Islamic center two blocks from where almost 3,000 people perished when hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001.
The more obvious ends of this sentiment take it further, claiming the Cordoba House is some kind of victory lap, a monument to conquest. Let’s see, how best to respond to that one…
At least theirs has plans for a swimming pool.
