Mosque Madness: Islam Is Not the Enemy - Eric Margolis - Huffingtonpost

NEW YORK -- At a time when the US is mired in two lost wars, running a $1.4 billion deficit, and trapped in economic stagnation, a bitter but trivial public controversy over a Muslim social center in downtown New York seems absurd.

But that's what we now have, and it's an ugly harbinger of the oncoming wave of religious bigotry and xenophobia that will mark this fall's elections. --- We applaud two courageous men, President Barack Obama and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, for defending the Muslim center even at considerable political risk.

What we are seeing is an eruption of cultivated anti-Muslim hatred that has been building up for the past nine years since 9/11. Openly attacking Muslims has become the last acceptable public prejudice. --- So President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg (my mayor, I am proud to say) did exactly the right thing by reminding their misled countrymen of our basic right of religious freedom and tolerance. ... More, - Mosque Madness: Islam Is Not the Enemy - Eric Margolis

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