REAL SENSITIVE GUY – AT 8:11 A.M. ET:  The chap behind the Ground Zero mosque is going public.  I'm not sure he's doing himself much good.  From Andrew Malcolm at the L.A. Times's Top of the Ticket blog:

Just three days before the ninth anniversary of the deadly 9/11 attacks, the controversial Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf behind the proposed mosque and community center near New York's "ground zero" said Wednesday night he had no intention of seeking an alternative site, despite overwhelming public opinion opposition to his plan.

He said his resistance to such a suggestion was a matter of national security because to move the site would inflame radical Muslims abroad and endanger Americans and American interests. 

I think the term "blackmail" comes to mind.

At another point during the revealing CNN interview, however, the Imam said that "nothing is off the table."

Speaking exclusively with Soledad O'Brien on "Larry King Live," the imam said the proposed mosque site two blocks from "ground zero" could not be considered sacred ground because of the seamy nature of much of the surrounding neighborhood. "You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground," the imam declared.

Does this man understand anything?  Just read that last sentence.  Apparently, the sacrifice of nearly 3,000 people would have meaning only in a better neighborhood.

He spouts on about peace and harmony, but will not move the site of the mosque, which would increase peace and harmony.

Hypocrite.

September 9, 2010