How right-wingrrrrrrrrs were tricked about the mosque thingy

[captain_kook]

Here's a timeline of how it all happened:
•Dec. 8, 2009: The New York Times publishes a lengthy front-page
look at the Cordoba project. "We want to push back
against the extremists," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the
lead organizer, is quoted as saying.

Two Jewish leaders
and two city officials, including the mayor's office,
say they support the idea, as does the mother of a man
killed on 9/11.

An FBI spokesman says the imam has
worked with the bureau.

Besides a few third-tier right
-wing blogs, including Pamela Geller's Atlas Shrugs
site, no one much notices the Times story.
 
 
•Dec. 21, 2009: Conservative media personality Laura
Ingraham interviews Abdul Rauf's wife, Daisy Khan,
while guest-hosting "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox. In
hindsight, the segment is remarkable for its
cordiality. "I can't find many people who really have a
problem with it," Ingraham says of the Cordoba project,
adding at the end of the interview, "I like what you're
trying to do."
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/q7WbTv_gsx4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/q7WbTv_gsx4</a>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7WbTv_gsx4
This segment also includes onscreen the first use that
we've seen of the misnomer "ground zero mosque.") After
the segment — and despite the front-page Times story —
there were no news articles on the mosque for five and
a half months, according to a search of the Nexis
newspaper archive.



•May 6, 2010: After a unanimous vote by a New York City
community board committee to approve the project, the
AP runs a story. It quotes relatives of 9/11 victims
(called by the reporter), who offer differing opinions.


The New York Post, meanwhile, runs a story under the
inaccurate headline, "Panel Approves 'WTC' Mosque."




Geller is less subtle, titling her post that day,
"Monster Mosque Pushes Ahead in Shadow of World Trade
Center Islamic Death and Destruction."



She writes on
her Atlas Shrugs blog, "This is Islamic domination and
expansionism. The location is no accident. Just as Al-
Aqsa was built on top of the Temple in Jerusalem." (To
get an idea of where Geller is coming from, she once
suggested that Malcolm X was Obama's real father.
Seriously.)
 
 
keeeep goin:

[captain_kook]

•May 7, 2010: Geller's group, Stop Islamization of
America (SIOA), launches "Campaign Offensive: Stop the
911 Mosque!" (SIOA 's associate director is Robert
Spencer, who makes his living writing and speaking
about the evils of Islam.)
 
 
 
Geller posts the names and
contact information for the mayor and members of the
community board, encouraging people to write. The board
chair later reports getting "hundreds and hundreds" of
calls and e-mails from around the world.
 
 
•May 8, 2010: Geller announces SIOA's first protest
against what she calls the "911 monster mosque" for May
29. She and Spencer and several other members of the
professional anti-Islam industry will attend. (She also
says that the protest will mark the dark day of "May
29, 1453, [when] the Ottoman forces led by the Sultan
Mehmet II broke through the Byzantine defenses against
the Muslim siege of Constantinople."
 
 
The outrage-peddling New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser argues
in a note at the end of her column a couple of days
later that "there are better places to put a mosque."
 
 
•May 13, 2010: Peyser follows up with an entire column
devoted to "Mosque Madness at Ground Zero." This is a
significant moment in the development of the "ground
zero mosque" narrative: It's the first newspaper
article that frames the project as inherently wrong and
suspect, in the way that Geller has been framing it for
months.
 
 
Peyser in fact quotes Geller at length and
promotes the anti-mosque protest of Stop Islamization
of America, which Peyser describes as a "human-rights
group."
 
 
 
Peyser also reports — falsely — that Cordoba
House's opening date will be Sept. 11, 2011.
 
 
 
Lots of opinion makers on the right read the Post, so
it's not surprising that, starting that very day, the
mosque story spread through the conservative — and then
mainstream — media like fire through dry grass.
 
 
 
Geller appeared on Sean Hannity's radio show.
 
 
 
The Washington Examiner ran an outraged column about honoring the 9/11
dead.
 
 
So did Investor's Business Daily.
 
 
Smelling blood, the Post assigned news reporters to cover the ins and
outs of the Cordoba House development daily.
 
 
 
Fox News, the Post's television sibling, went all out.
 
 
 
Within a month, Rudy Giuliani had called the mosque a
"desecration."
 
 
 
Within another month, Sarah Palin had
tweeted her famous "peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate"
tweet.
 
 
Peter King and Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty
followed suit — with political reporters and television
news programs dutifully covering "both sides" of the
controversy.
 
 
 
Geller had succeeded beyond her wildest dreams.
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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/16/ground_zero_mosque_origins/index.html
 
 
SUCK-rrrrrrrrrs

[hoosier_daddy]

oh, no doubt...this is a nothing story.  two blocks away is not within a sensitivity zone.  the hijackers who attacked on 9/11 were not true muslims acting on behalf of muhammad or allah any more than timothy mcveigh was a true christian acting on behalf of christians or david koresh when he and his goons shot the 4 ATF guys serving a legal warrant....

[wralst]

Well of course they were tricked!

They LIKE being tricked.

They are suckers for anyone selling them stuff they long to hear.

[Baretta19]

SUCK-rrrrrrrrrs
 
Thats very obvious, the original name of the project was The Mosque at Ground Zero, the name was changed to the Cordoba project AFTER all the controversy
 
But please continue to show your support for spitting in the face of 70% of AMERICANS, it will go a long way in Nov. bang bang bang, more nails in the coffin

[captain_kook]

Of course that was never true.
 
That's why you believe it entirely.
 
 

[Thomasj_tx]

Re you aware what Cordoba represents to muslims?

[captain_kook]

Re you aware what Cordoba represents to muslims?
 
I am.
 
In the 8th Century Muslims drove the Visigoths - who persecuted Muslims, Jews, and non-Catholic Christians - out of Spain and re-established a government at Cordoba that did the opposite.
 
 

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[hoosier_daddy]

do you know how little anybody cares?

[Thomasj_tx]

do you know how little anybody cares?

The vast majority of Americans care a lot, like 70 - 80%.
 
And to muslims, Cordoba is a symbol of conquest over the infidels.  WOnder why they decided to change the name of the porject from the Cordoba project.

[captain_kook]

The vast majority of Americans care a lot, like 70 - 80%.

 
the vast majority of people who answer automated phone polls are idiots

[stretch351c]

Not surprised people like you back the mosque kook, your buddies in Hamas came out in favor of it as well.