Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:44:16 pm
The craziness goes on and on. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are whining furiously at being appropriately labeled "anti-Muslim" by the Washington Post. After months of irresponsible hate mongering toward the Cordoba House, they're complaining that they are being put in danger; "gall" doesn't even begin to describe them. Man ...

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 10:18:55 am
On his radio show this morning, Glenn Beck made excuses for the Birther movement by saying that Barack Obama is "a Christian that Christians don't recognize," and therefore it's perfectly understandable that they would think he's a Muslim. Beck, of course, is a converted Mormon who promotes Christian supremacism with the ...

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 12:14:35 pm
How crazy is the right wing's anti-Muslim rhetoric getting? This crazy. Note that Ron McNeil is saying these things in a public school, and assuming that every student listening is a Christian. PANAMA CITY — A Congressional candidate told local high school and middle school students Tuesday that Islam’s plan is to ...

Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:32:31 am
Nancy Pelosi is calling for an investigation into who's funding the Bigot Brigade. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said she supports an investigation of groups opposing the building of a mosque near ground zero in New York. Pelosi told San Francisco’s KCBS radio that “there is no question there is ...

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 ...

Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:12:28 pm
In 2006, LGF readers voted to give the Anti-Idiotarian Award to former UN ambassador John Bolton, largely because of his passionate support of the US and Israel in the frequently hostile environment of the United Nations. I feel slightly sad to announce that today, as the proprietor of LGF, I'm revoking ...

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 ...

Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:24:26 pm
Pamela Geller has taken the rambling xenophobic post she put on her blog earlier, and added even more scary adjectives for this paid press release through PRNewswire: SIOA Condemns Obama's Blessing of Ground Zero Mega-Mosque; Bolton, Wilders, Gingrich to Speak... -- NEW YORK, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NEW YORK, Aug. ...

Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:39:49 pm
Hatemonger Pamela Geller comes right out and says President Obama supported the 9/11 attacks. President Obama came out Friday evening in favor of the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at the hallowed ground of the 9/11 attack. Obama told the ummah (at an Iftar dinner on the third night of Ramadan) that he ...

Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:10:01 am
Finally! A Republican politician who isn't diving into the Muslim-hating gutter: Crist backs Obama on controversial Islamic center. Oh, wait ... that's right. Crist was purged from the Republican Party as a RINO. Panama City, Florida (CNN) – In a boost for President Obama on a red-hot controversy, Florida Gov. Charlie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:03:51 am
The State Department responds to the ridiculous complaints by Republican populists that Imam Feisal Rauf shouldn't be sent overseas to represent and promote America. The State Department says its choice of Mr. Rauf to represent the US in a forthcoming trip to Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, reflects ...

Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:17:36 pm
Hatemonger Pamela Geller has apparently founded an "umbrella" group called the American Freedom Defense Initiative for her anti-Muslim activities, with an attorney named David Yerushalmi, and they are going to be allowed to put their misleading anti-Cordoba billboard on MTA buses in New York. Geller and Yerushalmi are using the ...

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 ...

Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:07:24 pm
Attorney David Boies faces off with the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, and shows him up for the ignorant bigot he is: 'No Evidence of Harm' from Same Sex Marriage. Video (Hat tip: Thanos.)

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 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 11:13:28 am
Today's the day Elena Kagan will probably be confirmed to the Supreme Court, and the loons' heads are exploding all over the Internet. The most absurd and bigoted piece I've found yet is at Andrew Breitbart's "Big Peace" website, where anti-Muslim fanatic Christine Brim has a ludicrous article accusing Kagan of ...

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 ...