Cordoba "Mosque": Fareed Zakaria responds to ADL

Fareed Zakaria takes a stand against the explicit bigotry that has informed much of the opposition to the planned Islamic cultural center two blocks away from the site of the World Trade Center.

He criticizes the ADL for siding with the anti-Muslim activists and rationalizing a behavior that would, for any other target, easily have been recognized as bigotry. He then states he can no longer keep the award that the ADL had given him in 2005, because of the position they had taken here.

From CNN's "Fareed Zakaria: GPS". Probably the single most informative program on CNN - so obviously it's scheduled for Sunday at Noon, when the people most in need of informing are asleep or at church.

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[RonTylerDVM]

Today on the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, Fareed Zarcharia on his CNN show GPS, had the nerve to say we have wasted the past decade post 9/11. I am disappointed CNN continues to give this guy a platform to spew his hate for Americans. I say, shame on him and shame on CNN.

[amibidhrohi2006]

@RonTylerDVM 9/11's the day Americans turned into idiotic lemmings. People look at that "coming together" with fondness. That coming together made Americans chronically paranoid and thoughtless a condition that had Americans not questioning the Bush admin in the lead-up to the Iraq war, where America inflicted 9/11 times 300 on a people who never attacked the US. Look at America today. All it's concerned with is political bickering and fear of terrorism. Bin Laden got exactly what he wanted.

[amibidhrohi2006]

@RonTylerDVM Zakariya sees this situation from a global perspective. The World supported America's war against the Taliban. But everything since then, including the Iraq war and Abu Ghraib and Gitmo and government use of torture and the rise of anti-Muslim hatred, America lost its position of respect in the eyes of most people in the World. And not just in the Mid-East. Zakariya is right. And he isn't telling this to an American audience out of "hatred". In what sense is he wrong?

[amibidhrohi2006]

@RonTylerDVM Zakariya sees this situation from a global perspective. The World supported America's war against the Taliban. But everything since then, including the Iraq war and Abu Ghraib and Gitmo and government use of torture and the rise of anti-Muslim hatred, America lost its position of respect in the eyes of most people in the World. And not just in the Mid-East. Zakariya is right. And he isn't telling this to an American audience out of "hatred". In what sense is he wrong?

[amibidhrohi2006]

@RonTylerDVM Zakariya sees this situation from a global perspective. The World supported America's war against the Taliban. But everything since then, including the Iraq war and Abu Ghraib and Gitmo and government use of torture and the rise of anti-Muslim hatred, America lost its position of respect in the eyes of most people in the World. And not just in the Mid-East. Zakariya is right. And he isn't telling this to an American audience out of "hatred". In what sense is he wrong?

[amibidhrohi2006]

@Abdullah30

If God sends Mother Theresa to hell and Bin Laden to heaven, he'd be a bad God. There are Muslim murderers and non-Muslims who devote their lives to doing good, and vice versa.

Look at how the West cares for their poor, offering them care for their health for free. Those kafirs are so kind that Muslims flock to these Western countries rather than suffer under their Muslim governments.

Religion has NOTHING to do with good or bad.

[terajasoos]

i agree with farid 110%----he has taken a vey courageous and honorable step

[hinduempire]

zkaria is a man of obama, he is a great liar, never trust zakaria

[hinduempire]

zakaria, pls shut up, you are a biased muzzie, rauf is a taqiah master. no mosques on pearl harbour, ground zero

[xtremerace]

@amibidhrohi2006

A muslim cannot make judgement about a non-Muslim going to hell be him christian, Jew since God is the ultimate judge. In Islam you are judged by the circumstances you live in. A poor person will have an easier time than a rich person. A person that did not receive enough evidence about Islam will be judged accordingly. Basically even a non-Muslim could go to heaven if they lead a modest life.