Anti-Defamation League Comes Out Against Ground Zero Mosque

Talking Points Memo ^ | July 30, 2010 | Rachel Slajda

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The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish organization whose programs "counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry," has released a statement excoriating plans to build an Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero.

"Proponents of the Islamic Center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Islam. The bigotry some have expressed in attacking them is unfair, and wrong," the statement reads.

"But ultimately this is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right. In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain unnecessarily and that is not right," it says.

The ADL recommends the city "would be better served if an alternative location could be found."

Conservatives, including Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani, have been frothing over the plans for the mosque, calling it an insult to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Feline nicknames!

[Tennessee Nana]

Anti-Defamation League Comes Out Against Ground Zero Mosque
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Thank God...

[Dick Bachert]

The COUNTRY would be better served if the bloody thing — and any like it — was NEVER BUILT.

As it is, the US is being served up to the muzzies on a silver platter by the PC morons.

[Cacique]

Are we in the Twilight Zone?

[Frantzie]

Abe Foxman have a lucid moment? He is against Geert Wilders.

[wardaddy]

broke clock

[ZULU]

“Proponents of the Islamic Center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Islam. The bigotry some have expressed in attacking them is unfair, and wrong,” the statement reads. “

Typical posturing of professional liberal leftists who feel a deep seated moral need to exculpate any of thier mental anguish at the prospect of having to actually defend themselves against a brutal, violent, intolerant creed, even if only verbally.

[livius]

I’m stunned, frankly. They’re so liberal that usually trumps anything else.

[Islaminaction]

It is the same problem across the West. Far too many gutless “leaders”.

[anniegetyourgun]

Perhaps they’re waking up to reality.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

It’s about time.

[caww]

Dr....I understand the name of the mosque is the same as the town they built their first mosque in in Spain after the Muslims conquered them. So this is all about claiming ground zero as a victory for Islam via 9/11...and I understand that is how Muslims see it though their press releases sing a different and deceptive song.

[TorahTrueJew]

Darn! The ADL is against it?!? That means I have to be for it now!

(as in I am automatically against whatever the ADL is for...)

[Dr. Eckleburg]

.I understand the name of the mosque is the same as the town they built their first mosque in in Spain after the Muslims conquered them. So this is all about claiming ground zero as a victory for Islam via 9/11...and I understand that is how Muslims see it though their press releases sing a different and deceptive song.

Amazing, isn't it? Who exactly is winning this war on terror? And with whose help?

[caww]

well this administration no longer calls it the war on terror..so that speaks volumes. Change the name, change the meanings and the mindsets do seem to go with the flow...it’s catchy in all areas of deception, political, religious and otherwise. Remember Clinton didn’t have sex either!

[Realman30]

Sound like typical liberal wordspeak to me: "It's not a bad idea, but neither is it's not a good idea."

[A_Former_Democrat]

Wow July 30 2010

Such a rush to judgment by the ADL /s

[left that other site]

“Proponents of the Islamic Center may have every right to build at this site, and may even have chosen the site to send a positive message about Islam. The bigotry some have expressed in attacking them is unfair, and wrong,” the statement reads. “

I wonder if Abe feels the same way about the Dome of the Rock?

You know, that thing on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem?