Ron Paul apparently thinks that the current controversy over the Ground Zero Mosque is just an opportunity for the “Neo-Cons” to stir us all up into yet another xenophobic, completely unfounded hate-frenzy against Muslims. It’s also an opportunity for Ron Paul to, once again, demonstrate that he is a moron of earthshaking proportions,
Is the controversy over building a mosque near ground zero a grand distraction or a grand opportunity? Or is it, once again, grandiose demagoguery?
It has been said, “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” Are we not overly preoccupied with this controversy, now being used in various ways by grandstanding politicians? It looks to me like the politicians are “fiddling while the economy burns.”
The debate should have provided the conservative defenders of property rights with a perfect example of how the right to own property also protects the 1st Amendment rights of assembly and religion by supporting the building of the mosque.
Instead, we hear lip service given to the property rights position while demanding that the need to be “sensitive” requires an all-out assault on the building of a mosque, several blocks from “ground zero.”
Just think of what might (not) have happened if the whole issue had been ignored and the national debate stuck with war, peace, and prosperity. There certainly would have been a lot less emotionalism on both sides. The fact that so much attention has been given the mosque debate, raises the question of just why and driven by whom?
In my opinion it has come from the neo-conservatives who demand continual war in the Middle East and Central Asia and are compelled to constantly justify it.
They never miss a chance to use hatred toward Muslims to rally support for the ill conceived preventative wars. A select quote from soldiers from in Afghanistan and Iraq expressing concern over the mosque is pure propaganda and an affront to their bravery and sacrifice.
What amazes me is that there are actually people who think this mouth-breather should be President.
Has he never heard of the Hagia Sophia? Or how about the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus? The Grand Mosque of Cordoba? All of these were at one time churches, but were converted into mosques by Muslim conquerors. The same goes for Lal Kot, a centre of Hindu worship in India that was razed and the Qutub Minar built on top of it. These are just a few examples of the thousands that can be given where Muslims destroyed or co-opted sites from their enemies, and built or turned them into mosques so as to demonstrate the “superiority” of Islam over all other systems.
Which is exactly what that Ground Zero Mosque is all about.
The fact that Ron Paul either has no clue about this, or else is just trying to use it to score cheap political points, shows that he belongs nowhere near the Presidency of the United States of America.
