Political Aside

[snailprincess]

Let me be frank. If you think that the Cordoba center should not be allowed to be built near the site of the World Trade Center, you are an idiot and a bigot and you're willing to sell out one of the of the most fundamental rights we have to prevent a few other idiots and bigots from having their feelings hurt. If, like many commentators and

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[leech]

I wrote some angry e-mails to the spineless pigfuckers at the ADL.

[zixi]

Oh thank god I'm not the only person who was absolutely livid at the ADL for that one.

[bennj]

Honestly, how could the ADL do that? When someone first told me about it, I was sure it was a hoax.

[zixi]

I know!

What gets me is this part:
We categorically reject appeals to bigotry on the basis of religion, and condemn those whose opposition to this proposed Islamic Center is a manifestation of such bigotry.

Which they say right before explaining why the Center shouldn't build there, in a manner that sure as heck seems to be manifesting that bigotry.

This stance just goes against everything the ADL claims to stand for and makes me wary of supporting them.

[bennj]

The thing is, it sounds exactly like something AIPAC would say, which is why I just assumed that the person who told me screwed up which giant Jewish lobbying group said anti-Muslim things.

ADL should be much more tolerant than this. However, seeing their stance made me wonder if there's more to the questionable funding of the project than has been reported.

[zixi]

No kidding. *sigh*

The thing with the funding is that I keep seeing people who are against Cordoba House make reference to a questionable funding source but I haven't seen anywhere anything more concrete than "the funding source is questionable" which makes me really skeptical - I mean, you'd think arguing it concretely would prove the point better.