Sew hatred . . . and reap violence.
That is the lesson from the ginned up furor over the misnamed GZM, which is neither at ground zero nor a mosque in the sense most Americans think of a mosque as a particular kind of building with minarets and calls to prayer five times a day that peal out into the neighborhood.
Now a Muslim cab driver in New York has been stabbed in the neck (fortunately it was not fatal) by a young man who got into his cab as a supposed rider. This was clearly a hate crime. According to reports, after getting an affirmation that the driver was muslin, he said "Consider this a check point" and then attacked him with a knife, cutting his throat.
The driver was able to drive, so he locked the back doors and attempted to drive to a police station with the man still inside. But he managed to crawl out a window. He has since be captured and is jail without bond, accused of a hate crime.
Now, what do you have to say, Newt? You are as responsible as anyone else, because of your ginning up the furor with the most vile bit of lies that got trumpeted through the FoxNews megaphone.
Maybe, just maybe, this will bring thinking people to their senses to realize what is happening -- all as crass political pyrotechnics.
All praises to Mayor Blumberg, who has redoubled his support for the Islamic Center as he denounced this hate crime.
Ralph
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There's a huge flaw in your logic Ralph. "Thinking people"?
ReplyDeleteAll the thinking people have already come to their senses. The fools who follow Boortz, Rush, Beck, Palin, Bachman - they are determined not to think about anything that questions their hatreds and prejudices.
The question is, are there more of them than us out there?
And kudos are definitely due to Blumberg. But where is Obama? He should be out there speaking out. Heck, George Bush was more forceful in addressing the need not to demonize Muslims than Obama has been. At times of crisis, leaders lead. Once more, when it really counts, and we need a president to step up, he's missing in action.
richard
I disagree with you on this one, Richard. I think there are a lot of New Yorkers who are capable of thinking but have been influenced by the sentiment of those families of 9/11 victims who wanted the mosque moved. People like Gov. Paterson, Howard Dean, and even Obama -- even though they wanted it to be a voluntary move, not mandated.
ReplyDeleteIt's people like this that are still capable of seeing through this ginned up controversy and realizing it is a political wedge being manipulated by partisan hacks.
I agree that I wish Obama had taken as strong a stand as Bloomberg -- but, let's face it, for better or worse, Obama's instinct is to compromise.
At least he did stand up for their right to build it there.
Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center, defends his church's plans to hold a mass burning of Korans on 9/11 to send a message to the Islamic world that their religion is not wanted here.
ReplyDeleteGood going guys. You just helped recruit another 1000 or so jihadists, justified in thinking that the United States is out to destroy their religion.