NPR Liberal Juan Williams Opposes Ground Zero Mosque
From Weasel Zippers:
(Weekly Standard)- During Fox News Sunday’s online “Panel Plus” segment, Juan Williams made the case against building the 13-story Islamic center a couple blocks from Ground Zero. Although the imam who owns the land has a right to do what he wants with his own property, Williams said, as a matter of decency the imam shouldn’t build the mosque.
Williams said that the proposed mosque and the imam’s actions are “a thumb in the eye to so many people who lost their lives and went through the trauma there. It’s not promoting dialogue or understanding. In fact, it’s polarizing. So it’s not achieving his stated goal. And for that reason, I just think he’s wrong to do it.”
Williams’s comments on the Ground Zero Mosque come a couple days after the Anti-Defamation League declared that “building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain – unnecessarily – and that is not right.
4 comments:
Damien: Juan Williams has been called every name in the book. You know there is great group pressure in the African-American community not to integrate or assimilate, not to acknowledge their great Americaness, but instead their victimhood. Juan has always risen above this sort of indignity and once again, pinpoints with calm honesty, the simple truth that it is disrespectful and antagonistic of the Mooslems even to have suggested this, that they have no respect for America or Americans in doing so. The insult is audacious.
Juan William's shine blinds me at times. His integrity and gentle manner is something to strive for, but in the meantime, Mooslems are pigs! They are a pigheaded people, which in their disgust for the animal, is the ultimate irony. They display all the personal and physical characteristics of that rapacious animal.
American Rose,
Are you part African-American?
I'm asking cuz I was wondering if, when you speak of the African-American community, if it's a personal thing for you.
No. My mother is a Caucasian Latin American, as are the majority of Latin Americans, ... though, I grant you, the perception is otherwise?
My father's line, which first set foot on these shores in 1642, is Welsh, though a few of my paternal grandmothers had Irish maiden names.
Gotcha. Thanks.
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