Our old friend Howard is back to his usual… stuff today: Did you know that the word islam is a cognate of the Hebrew word shalom, meaning “peace”? Don’t berate yourself if you didn’t, because it isn’t true. This is…
#Cordoba House
Either/or vs both/and (JRub strikes again)
If someone wrote and stood by a sentence like this one: Or is it just the Jewish element that has so paralyzed the liberal intelligentsia? …we’d all call for that someone’s head – wouldn’t we? Wouldn’t it be the basis…
Posted in Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Dan Senor, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamism, Islamophobia, NeoConservatism, Roger Cohen, Terror
Andy-McCarthyism
Andy McCarthy was inspired to put up three posts at The Corner today. Two focused on the usual guilt by association maneuvers and one-sided ideological attacks on Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and the, ahem, Lower Manhattan cultural center controversy. We’ve…
Posted in Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, Law & Justice, National Review, Supreme Court
Who “they” is
This ad from the Republican Trust PAC – over 100,000 views on YouTube – has been rejected by NBC and CBS for airing. Note the, um, not especially subtle symbolism used in the “starter” image: Though NBC spokesperson Jennifer Riley…
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Cordoba Initiative, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, National Republican Trust PAC, Terror
Reasons too obvious for reasoning
Here’s how Allahpundit sums up recent opinion polling among New York City residents on the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” project showing among other things that respondents claim a more positive opinion of Muslims than they do of the project: It’s…
Fight Them All Together II: On Allahpundit’s questions
Citing the New York Post in a post at HotAir, Allahpundit discusses apparent links between Cordoba Initiative founder Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and the “Gaza flotilla.” As AP is creditably careful to note, the linkage at this point remains tenuous: …
Posted in Politics, Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Islamism, Jihadism, Park Place Cultural Center
Some perspective, please…
“Memory Foundations” – from Studio Daniel Liebeskind’s master site plan for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site
Posted in Art, Politics, Religion Tagged with: Cordoba House, Freedom Tower, Ground Zero Mosque, Terror, World Trade Center
Imam McCarthy’s newest fatwa
At NRO/The Corner, reliable anti-Islamist Andy McCarthy calls for opposition to Cordoba House today, recalling the protests that he believes helped stop plans to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan. That dissent was enough to forestall the trial, but it…
In my own name only…
Why this building, there? Leaving aside some melodrama – “insane,” “looming horror,” “surrender” – that question sums up the reaction to Cordoba House, a.k.a. “The Ground Zero Mosque,” a project of the the Cordoba Initiative (CI) that last week added…
Posted in International Relations, Religion, War Tagged with: Bin Laden, collective guilt, Cordoba House, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Islamophobia, Rick Barber, Rod Dreher, War