re: #1054 Cato the Elder

Anyone who has read my posts over the last month or so knows two things: I am completely and utterly against the lies, propaganda, chicanery, and demagoguery inherent in the campaign to stop this mosque.

And I still reserve the right to question funding and unknown backers of the same mosque.

One of these things is not like the other.

The fact that the full-throated baying of the “anti-jihadist” hounds extends far beyond Manhattan to include any mosque being built anywhere in the United States tells me everything I need to know about the Poison Dwarf and his Harpy.

The fact that I don’t know with whom someone involved in the Manhattan mosque project may or may not be in bed, financially or otherwise, tells me merely that I don’t know that.

One is a frontal assault on the First Amendment; the other is a case for possible suspicion and clarification. That I do not necessarily believe that everything they say in English matches with what they say in Arabic does not mean I’m suddenly an anti-constitutionalist.

I hope that makes my position clear.

Perfectly clear. Your position also passes my “constitutional smell test”. You can replace ‘Park51’ with “Import/Export business” or really any other business with a foreign connection and what you said still seems reasonable. Of course we need to know about who’s backing the thing. I’d be the first one opposed if we found out it was being used to launder money for the Mexican cartels.

I’m 100% for due diligence on this project. But that’s because I’m for 100% due diligence on any $100 million project, and especially those with foreign backing.

Religion shouldn’t be the reason this project gets rejected, but it shouldn’t be accepted as a carte blanche for the developers either. Everything in moderation.