'The people behind the mosque project were "the same people who took down the twin towers"'

[uppityperson]

Fear and ignorance combined with the backing of those who want War and Hate to continue give us this sort of insanity. Logic doesn't prevail, Facts don't prevail, WTF is WRONG with people?

Continue to speak out, to educate, please.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11054868

...Opponents want the centre to be moved further from the site where more than 2,700 people were killed in the September 11 terror attacks. Steve Ayling, a 40-year-old plumber from Brooklyn, told AP: "They should put it in the Middle East." The people behind the mosque project were "the same people who took down the twin towers", he said.

But Dr Ali Akram, a 39-year-old doctor also from Brooklyn, said that scores of Muslims died in the twin towers. Opponents of the centre were "un-American," he said. "They teach their children about the freedom of religion in America - but they don't practice what they preach."

The plan by a New York developer to build the centre and mosque about two blocks from the former World Trade Center site has been attacked by prominent Republican politicians and conservative pundits.

President Barack Obama has come under fire over his defence of the developer's right to build a mosque a few blocks from Ground Zero.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8998496&mesg_id=8998496
Anti-Mosque Mob Turns On Black Union Carpenter

t's really getting out of control. Little Green Footballs has a video of a black man walking through the crowd at an anti-mosque rally. They automatically assume he is a Muslim and confront him, with one guy trying to fight him. One of the organizers steps in, but you can hear a man in the crowd saying,"This will be on CNN, I bet he voted for Obama." Guy turned out to be a carpenter who works down there.

[gratuitous]

1. Somebody's going to get killed before this is over

And the talking chuckleheads will cluck their tongues and wonder where anyone got such outlandish ideas.

[Jefferson23]

2. That is a concern I share too. n/t

[uppityperson]

3. It is getting rather scary in places. Waiting for Sikhs to get pulled aside, anyone who looks

of any skin color beyond or "middle-eastern" to get hassled or worse. It is like after 9/11 when people showed their true bigotry or tolerance.

[sarge43]

5. New York minute -- somebody's going to emergency; somebody's going to jail.

And it won't be the bigots who started this shit.

[rfranklin]

4. Rupert Murdoch and his stockholders?

Holy Imam!

[HopeHoops]

6. Funny, but I thought the ones who took down the twin towers went up in smoke with everyone else.

:shrug:

Speaking of which:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCZap4o777g

[uppityperson]

7. kick for evening crew