Another Exercise in Right Wing Malignant Lunacy
This one from the idiots at American Thinker, concerning the famous "Ground Zero Mosque" which, after the fashion of the Holy Roman Empire, is neither a mosque nor at ground zero. I'm linking to this post, despite my general distaste at giving these people any hits, because it's so stupid that many people might think I made it up. Well, here goes:
Well, let me just interrupt here. What we are seeing here is not a six-pointed (Jewish) star, but an eight-pointed star, a very traditional Muslim symbol, as anyone remotely familiar with Islamic art would know. In order to make this into a six-pointed star, you have to ignore the top and bottom of the pattern, something made easier by the misleading cropping of the picture. Can it be that these American Thinkers really can't add up to eight? Or are they just evil, racist liars? Perhaps we can figure that one out by examining their further comments:
"But the entire facade shows these shapes dissolving, as if shattered and falling down. Kind of like a window shattered by rocks and fragmenting into pieces.
New York City has the largest Jewish population in the world. Throughout the Arab and Muslim world, "Wall Street" -- the financial district on lower Manhattan -- connotes "Jewish bankers."
Yes, the entire intent of the facade of this building is to make some kind of virtually un-perceivable reference to a Nazi atrocity against Jews. Muslims have nothing better to do with their time or their money than to make their holy buildings into attacks on other people. This is so stupid and racist that it is almost beyond belief that grown people could engage in such behavior, yet it is lies such as this that form the entire stock in trade of American conservatism today.
"The newly unveiled "official" architectural renderings of the Ground Zero Mosque, now being rebranded and sanitized as the "Park 51 Community Center" reveal a disturbing, insidious message.
Look closely at the pattern of the facade. It is quite easy to discern the Star of David (two triangles with points up and down), the pre-eminent symbol of Judaism here:"
Well, let me just interrupt here. What we are seeing here is not a six-pointed (Jewish) star, but an eight-pointed star, a very traditional Muslim symbol, as anyone remotely familiar with Islamic art would know. In order to make this into a six-pointed star, you have to ignore the top and bottom of the pattern, something made easier by the misleading cropping of the picture. Can it be that these American Thinkers really can't add up to eight? Or are they just evil, racist liars? Perhaps we can figure that one out by examining their further comments:
"But the entire facade shows these shapes dissolving, as if shattered and falling down. Kind of like a window shattered by rocks and fragmenting into pieces.
New York City has the largest Jewish population in the world. Throughout the Arab and Muslim world, "Wall Street" -- the financial district on lower Manhattan -- connotes "Jewish bankers."
Kristallnacht, anyone?"
Yes, the entire intent of the facade of this building is to make some kind of virtually un-perceivable reference to a Nazi atrocity against Jews. Muslims have nothing better to do with their time or their money than to make their holy buildings into attacks on other people. This is so stupid and racist that it is almost beyond belief that grown people could engage in such behavior, yet it is lies such as this that form the entire stock in trade of American conservatism today.
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