Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:15:42 pm
Jon Stewart has been excellent on the "Ground Zero Mosque" parade of bigotry, and this may be his best bit yet. He destroys the moronic hypocrisy of claiming the Cordoba House might be a center for terrorists, but at the same time saying it would be fine if it were ...

Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:48:50 am
One of the most visible right wing politicians in the parade of bigotry surrounding the Cordoba House project is perennial opportunist Newt Gingrich. He's compared the developers to Nazis, and spouts rhetoric virtually indistinguishable from the anti-Muslim rants of deranged lunatic Pamela Geller. Correction: now he spouts that kind of sick ...

Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:42:57 am
Jeffrey Goldberg points out the speech given by Imam Feisal Rauf, who's been viciously maligned as a "radical Islamist" and worse, at a memorial service for Daniel Pearl. In 2003, Imam Rauf was invited to speak at a memorial service for Daniel Pearl, the journalist murdered by Islamist terrorists in ...

Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:08:42 am
Most of the media have uncritically adopted the term "Ground Zero Mosque," a dishonest, inflammatory phrase coined by bigots. It's a disgrace. Today the Associated Press finally issued a directive telling staff to stop enabling the Bigot Brigade. (Not in so many words, of course.) The Associated Press, one of world's ...

Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:16:27 pm
Talking Points Memo interviews hate monger Pamela Geller, and what comes through more than anything else is Geller's obsessive paranoid xenophobia. She sees all Muslims, even American citizens who live and work in the same city she does, and who were shocked and devastated on 9/11 just like she was, ...

Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:07:35 pm
Former Bush administration Solicitor General Ted Olson, whose wife Barbara was killed in the September 11 terror attacks, supports the Cordoba House project. Also speaking out on the mosque today on MSNBC, Ted Olson, a former Bush Solicitor General. After an interview about his role challenging Prop 8, Olson was ...

Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:18:49 am
The developers of Cordoba House (which is not a "Ground Zero Mega-Mosque") have rejected NY Gov. David Paterson's craven offer to help them capitulate to the tide of anti-Muslim bigotry: Mosque Developer Rejects Meeting With Paterson. The developers of an Islamic cultural center that would include a mosque near Ground ...

Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:52:07 am
As we've been pointing out at LGF since it began, the main fanatic driving the "Ground Zero Mosque" insanity is hateblogger Pamela Geller; Justin Elliott has a timeline of her poisonous invective and its effect on the issue: How the 'ground zero mosque' fear mongering began. May 6, 2010: After ...

Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:32:59 am
Daryl Lang has an excellent post with a dozen photographs of some of the other stuff about two blocks from the "hallowed ground" of the World Trade Center -- the same distance as the "Ground Zero Mosque:" 'Hallowed Ground'. What’s my point? A month ago, I wrote about my support ...

Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 6:28:39 pm
The latest claim circulating about Imam Feisal Rauf, started at Pajamas Media by Madeline Brooks, is that he attended a “Hizb-ut Tahrir Conference” in 2007, with a “feeling of celebration.” It's just the latest in a long string of false allegations, and Jeffrey Imm of R.E.A.L. completely destroys it here: NYC ...

Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 2:46:01 pm
President Obama was asked by reporters today if he had an opinion on the "wisdom" of building the Cordoba House two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center, and replied: “I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to ...

Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:44:52 am
Reacting to President Obama's statement on the Cordoba House project, Redstate.com CEO and CNN contributor Erick Erickson tweeted: "Paging the Church of Satan: Our founding principles demand Barack Obama support your rights to human sacrifice."

Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:46:31 pm
The LA Times has the complete text of President Obama's long-overdue statement on freedom of religion, the US Constitution, and the tide of prejudice that has risen up against the Cordoba House project and other mosques across the nation. The White House posted the full video: Celebrating Ramadan at the White ...

Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:08:15 am
I'm beginning to feel like I've stumbled through an inter-dimensional portal into a Bizarro version of America, in which every single right wing politician, pundit, and blogger has been taken over by ranting, raving, illogical hyper-partisan doppelgangers, twisting and spinning themselves into weird pretzel shapes trying to find ways to ...

Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:25:27 pm
More than 40 prominent American religious leaders have released a joint statement strongly supporting the Cordoba House project and condemning the fear-mongers: Top Religious Leaders Denounce Growing Anti-Muslim Sentiment; Express Support for NY Mosque, Community Center: As Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders and scholars committed to religious ...

Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:02:27 am
The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion has released a new poll of New York residents, showing that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's approval rating has dropped to 49%. The New York Post, busily inciting hatred against the Cordoba House project, links this drop to Bloomberg's stance against bigotry and for religious freedom ...

Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:15:48 am
Politico's Ben Smith has been collecting statements from possible Republican presidential candidates about the Park51 project (please stop calling it the "Ground Zero Mosque," people -- it's a deliberately misleading phrase coined by bigots), and it's a disturbing snapshot of the current state of the GOP. George W. Bush had many ...

Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:46:07 am
At Mediaite, Jon Bershad really gets a belly laugh out of Greg Gutfeld's new idea: Greg Gutfeld To Open A Gay Bar Next To Ground Zero Mosque To Cater To “Islamic Gay Men”. No, this is not a joke. In fact, it is instead one of the most brilliant pieces ...

Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:59:35 pm
I have a coding project today: I'm adding an often-requested feature to the LGF Blog that will let registered users choose to receive any new comments posted in a thread via email. This will make it easier to keep track of comments for any threads you're interested in, or any ...

Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:23:41 pm
Tea Party-endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate for New York, Carl Paladino, has released a campaign video attacking the Park51 project: "As governor, I will use the power of eminent domain to stop the mosque, and use the site as a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our ...

Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:48:20 am
The idea that the opposition to the Park51 Islamic community center in lower Manhattan is based on its proximity to the "sacred" Ground Zero is nothing more than a blatant lie. The proof is right in front of everyone, because the Bigot Brigade, empowered by their success in spreading populist hatred ...

Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:39:14 pm
Greenland glacier calves island four times the size of Manhattan. ScienceDaily (Aug. 7, 2010) — A University of Delaware researcher reports that an "ice island" four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was ...

Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:08:36 am
One of the main talking points used by opponents of the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is that the term "Cordoba House" was deliberately chosen by the Muslim developers to symbolize the Muslim conquest of Spain. Apparently we're supposed to believe that Imam Feisal Rauf can hardly suppress ...

Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:57:04 am
It's time for the Bigot Brigade to stop claiming they speak for all the 9/11 families when they rant against the "Ground Zero mosque" (which is neither a mosque nor at Ground Zero), because there are victim's families who see clearly that the opposition to Park51 is driven by sheer ...

Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:18:45 am
The Anti-Defamation League's Abe Foxman now says the ADL won't fight the Park51 project. The Anti-Defamation League will not fight the building of a controversial Islamic center and mosque planned near the site of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York, the group's leader told CNN Wednesday. The Jewish ...