Today on CNN's State of the Union, NY congressman Jerry Nadler says the right wing is blaming ALL Muslims for the terrorist act on 9/11, "they are ascribing collective guilt on all Muslims".
NADLER: [W]hat they are saying essentially is how can you put a mosque there when, after all, Muslims attacked us on 9/11, and this is ripping open a wound? Well, the fallacy is that Al Qaeda attacked us. Islam did not attack us. Islam, like Christianity, like Judaism, like other religions, has many different people, some of whom regard other adherents of the religion as heretics of one sort or another. It is only insensitive if you regard Islam as the culprit, as opposed to Al Qaeda as the culprit. We were not attacked by all Muslims. And there were Muslims who were killed there, there were Muslims who were killed there. There were Muslims who ran in as first responders to help. And we cannot take any position like that.
“[O]bjecting to this mosque would be as objectionable if you wouldn’t object to a church or a synagogue in the same place because that’s blaming all Islam and you can’t blame an entire religion,” Nadler explained. He then ticked through three prominent examples of GOP hypocrisy on the “Ground Zero mosque”:
1) Nadler: “One, there is a mosque in the Pentagon, which is also hallowed ground. No one objects to that.” [Link]
2) Nadler: “Second, the people who want to build this facility, which is partially a mosque and partially a community center, have a mosque a few blocks away from there, which no one has objected to.” [Link]
3) Nadler: “I would take the sincerity of many of the Republican critics of this…if they were supporting, as Peter is, but very few other Republicans are, the bill to give health care coverage to the 9/11 heroes and responders which all but 12 Republicans voted against in the House last week.” [Link]
This argument and hysteria has gotten so out of hand and so heated with rage and hatred from Americans who are not thinking with their brains, but with their hearts. They are WRONG in their arguments. It's turned into a political fight and that is WRONG. The right loves putting the blame on President Obama and even accusing him of planning this whole fight. If righties don't like being called insane then why do they act that way?? What they want to do is turn this country into White America. They cringe at the thought of minorities having the same rights as they have. States rights, let the states decide whether or not Muslims, blacks, Hispanics, Mexicans etc. shall have the same rights as white Americans. That's what the righties want. How embarrassing for our country!! Where is the Melting Pot this country was so proud to be called generations ago? What has happened to our nation?? Stop saying "give us our country back", nobody took your damn country!! You hateful bigots have turned your backs on our nation. You are the reason we have hate taking over!
