“If, as backers claim, the purpose of this Cordoba mosque and community center were healing, reconciliation and harmony, it has failed in its purpose. It has already had the opposite effect, enraging and dividing the city and country.

Why would backers of the project press ahead when its purpose is impossible to attain, unless the real purpose were to impose on the people of New York a mosque they do not want there?

…It has gone global, as Hamas has now weighed in on the side of building the mosque near Ground Zero.

“We have to build the mosque, as you are allowed to build the church, and Israelis are building their holy places,” said Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of Hamas and the organization’s chief in Gaza.

“First of all,” Zahar continued, “we have to address that we are different as people, as a nation totally different. We already are living under the tradition of Islam. … Islam is controlling every source of our life as regard to marriage, divorce, our commercial relationships. …”

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Naturally, people like Jon Stewart, Keith Olbermann or Anderson Cooper mock and belittle the legitimate concerns of American citizens about this mosque – and Islam. Their way of responding is not to discuss the points of a debate but to insult, ridicule and mock anyone they disagree with.