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Over at TPM, David Kurtz reports that a spokesperson for the man who would like to be the Democratic leader of the United States Senate has issued a statement in which he courageously calls on Muslims not to build a worship center anywhere that he might find inconvenient for his election:
The First Amendment protects freedom of religion. Sen. Reid respects that but thinks that the mosque should be built some place else.
Well, that clinches it for me. The Democrat’s Senate leader apparently believes religious freedom and tolerance are okay if they don’t interfere with his election, and he doesn’t seem to want to be a leader. Way to motivate the base, Harry.
If it were up to me, I’d suggest that the "hallowed grounds" everyone claims to be honoring be dedicated as a peace center open to worshipers of all religions and people who just think peace and tolerance are better ideas than endless religious wars. Build a mosque, a synagogue, a day-care center and whatever else you want inside it. Then if Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich didn’t want to go there, that would be fine.
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Reid is not exactly a profile in courage at any time but this is really over the top. I plan to contact my Senators and ask that they not to vote for him as leader. Might not do any good.
Point one: the mosque is NOT a ground zero, it’s a couple of blocks away and the neighborhood of the proposed site is supportive of the construction.
Why in hell is no one of the political stripe hammering on that point and stopping the media garbage?
Point two is that the U.S. populace has forgotten and is ignorant of what the founding fathers envisioned:
The Founding Fathers and Islam
Point three is that it wasn’t just U.S. christian citizens who died in the 9/11 attack on the WTC but citizens from all over the world and there were followers of Islam (muslims) among the dead.
This one fuckin sick society.
Hey Harry! I’m offended by Mormons coming to my door and trying to proselytize and convert me. Can I ban them?
If Reid is going to side with the bigots, we may as well just call him a bigot.
The senate majority “leader” sworn to uphold and protect the constitution…Please is this as good as it gets?
Speaking of holes in the ground…
“There’s a hole in the world
Like a great black pit
and the vermin of the world inhabit it
And its morals aren’t worth
what a pig could spit
And it goes by the name of…” Congress!
Apologies to Stephen Sondheim
Howdy Scarecrow -
fyi – this Center is part of the Cordoba Initiative – from their website:
Great post Scarecrow!
What a novel idea, build a place where we can cultivate multi-cultural, multi-faith understanding of one another. I am really disappointed in Harry Reid and his stance on this.
Just another example of his caving in to pressure, from of all people,
Sharron Angle.
The Repubs are willing to change the wording on the 14th Amendment, why not do the same for the 1st? Then we could, in chronological order take on the 2nd, oh wait….
If I were NV resident, I’d vote for Angle in the election. Why not? After all, clearly Angle is calling the shots and running Reid, who purports to be the “Senate Majority Leader” (but must not be). Let’s move on from having Angle as Senator-by-proxy. Might as well have Angle there being her usual idiotic stupid self but doing the dirty work herself.
Thanks for a great post and the comments that follow. Welcome home.
blessings,
Me too! Maybe Harry has a spot in Nevada picked out
Harry Reid has the courage of his lack of conviction. That can’t be said for just anyone. Reid is a principled man but he is also very private, which is why you will never see him show his principles in public. He is also a man of many talents. It is a little known fact but Reid is in the Spelunkers Hall of Fame. No one has done as much caving as him. In fact, Reid has shown throughout his career that he has never met a cave he didn’t like.
His position of leadership in the Democratic Party is richly deserved. You see Harry, you see the very soul of the modern Democratic Party. What you see in Harry is what you will get from the Democrats.
Harry Reid, I salute you. You give hope to jellyfish everywhere.
This doesn’t surprise me folks.When I heard that Reid was a guest of honor at Net -Roots nation convention I almost gagged……this is the guy who is going to fight for DADT ?…no really, don’t laugh folks.
To paraphrase Obama: I believe in the people’s right to vote for Reid, but I’m not commenting on the wisdom of voting for Reid.
Reid’s cowardice here is the perfect case-study encapsulating what the Democratic Party has become.
He proved that point when he let it slip how much like a white man Obama appeared to be sartorially and in his elocution.
Harry’s just vying for that sacred John Birch Society vote out there in Amerikkka.