I was more or less listening to Chris Matthews on TV yesterday evening while cooking dinner. One of the guests on Hardball was former New York governor George Pataki. The conversation centered around the "building of a mosque at ground zero." This whole issue is becoming very tiring, not to mention idiotic since the proposed mosque isn't a mosque, but a community center with a small mosque inside and it isn't at ground zero. The site in question is a long two blocks away. My new vegetable chopper was way more interesting than the debate on the tube until I heard these words flutter from Pataki's mouth:
"We (the righteously indignant I suppose) believe religious tolerance is an important part of our bill of rights and of our country but that doesn't mean that we have to tolerate building a center with questionable sources of funds, questionable leadership, so close to ground zero. It is the wrong thing to do at the wrong site."
Well, there is a "holy crap, are you kidding" moment for you.
I had to pull up the transcript from last night's show on-line this morning to make sure I heard Pataki correctly, and it appears that I did. He is alleging that the "ground zero mosque" could very well be funded by Islamic extremists and run by these same extremists, and that the mosque shouldn't exist at this holy site. So, one might ask, this terrorist gathering place would be okey-dokey with Pataki as long as it were located somewhere else in New York?
And, the leadership of whom Pataki seems so abysmally ignorant? That would be the imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf...the guy used by our State Department as an emissary to the Muslim world. And, who is funding Rauf? That would be Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia. The prince, through his Kingdom Holding Company, is a major contributor to the Cordoba Initiative (the mosque project). And, Kingdom Holding? Well, slap my ass and call me Spanky, Kingdom Holding is the second largest shareholder in Fox, the invent the news network, right behind Rupert Murdoch.
Using a Glenn Beck convoluted form of logic one could suggest then that it is the Fox News viewers who are funding that terrorist mosque at ground zero. So, take that Pataki and may it serve you well.
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