Comments on: A Proposed Mosque at Ground Zero Prompts Unfounded Debate

By: In Review: OWS, The Ground Zero Occupation « Jeffrey C. Goldfarb's Deliberately Considered

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:14:49 +0000

[…] to take a look and to support the occupation at Zuccotti Park, passing by the site of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque as […]

By: A Specter is Haunting the Powers That Be: Thinking about Korea while Looking at Wall Street « Jeffrey C. Goldfarb's Deliberately Considered

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:21:12 +0000

[…] to the American imagination about who we are and what we stand for. This led to an outrageous flight from factual truth in the case of “The Ground Zero Mosque.” In the case of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it is empowering those who want Americans to look […]

By: Sadri

Sadri — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:42:00 +0000

Kudos to Professor Goldfarb. The fact that someone like Feisal Abdlu Rauf could be the target of vile accusations and hate speech tells volumes about the siege mentality and and the fascistic zeitgeist that has descended on America since the events of 9/11. You could not find a more moderate, a less fundamentalist Muslim if you searched for one. I confess that the accusations were so harsh and pervasive that even I had been affected until I got to listen to this man in a Council for Foreign Relations event in Chicago.

Fox News, as Jeff rightly observes, is a major platform for propagating this kind of hatred. Voices of reason, such as that of Meyer Bloomberg are lost in the heat of rabble risers. The center Abdlul Rauf has in mind, as David Horowitz, one of the leaders of the movement to propagate hatred of Muslims (Islamophobe is too mild a description for him and people like Daniel Pipes) has judged may never come to be. But history will judge those who prevented it as id does all racists and hate mongers.