Ethics

OMG! Muslims Build Mosques!

By Ed Brayton

The Worldnutdaily has its typically hysterical overreaction to the fact that a Muslim mosque has opened just a few blocks from where the World Trade Center was before 9/11. Never mind that the head of the mosque is a guy who works with the FBI teaching Islamic culture to their agents and has helped the United States in reaching out to the Muslim world to repair the damage done by Abu Ghraib and other atrocities. He's a Muslim and Muslims are terrorists, dontcha know, so get that outrage machine cranked up.

The funny thing is that they can't even find some mildly respected right winger to inveigh against this so they have to quote anonymous commenters on unnamed blogs instead, saying things like this:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).