Do you think Obama's election has something to do with it? It is not only about Muslims but about race and everything else. The whole rise of the tea-party is rooted in White Republican xenophobia and they went from lip syncing to standing up to "corrupt" Washington and trying to shed light on the deficits and taxes (something they did not do over 8 years of Bush's cronyism in which he exhausted Clinton's surplus for a massive debt and deficit) to transforming to "taking back my country" (coincidence this now we have the first Black president)? Basically the transformation of white racism and bigotry went from hiding behind legitimate issues surrounding the economy to finally unmasking their true xenophobic motivations and you can see this from the birther and Obama is not an American-born crap, to the Hispanic and 12th Amendment and immigration crap, and now to this charged atmosphere surrounding the ground-zero Mosque being built by private owners of the land with permit approved by local council which has given an excuse for the right-wing to bring out all the cloaked daggers they were waiting to ripe Islam and Muslims with in the national rhetoric. How can people who say a restaurant has the right to bar people on the basis of race because of "private ownership" and have voiced masked criticism of the Civil Rights Bill on this issue now cry about private owners of a land building on their privately owned land with building plan approved by the local council and the city? Pure hypocrisy or it is a limitation of their own assumptions about their position within this country where they assume the law should cater to them and no one else. After all, with exception namely those on the top using them like puppets, most of the adherents to the right-wing have as much as 7th grade education.
These bastards have to be fought and we need to fight them using the values and freedoms they say this country stands for that we ironically enough represent more now then their redneck, illiterate, incest-born heritage, ignorant, bigoted xenophobic existence. I for one am glad the builders of the ground zero Mosque have stuck to their plans through thick and thin and are going to show these bastards this is a battle about rights in this country and not emotions. Keep your emotions contained in your house and debate rights in the public atmosphere. Good job on them and the Imam Abdul-Rauf.
