OUTSIDE RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, IN A QUAINT-ASS GERMAN TOWN, Germany — I hate to say I told you so, starting way back in May. But now that the anti-Muslim bile against the unobjectionable Islamic center called Cordoba House has reached mainstream saturation, look what’s showing up on the internet: Evan F. Kohlmann, who tracks militant [...]

The New York Times reports on a new video by some anti-Awlakists, for lack of a better phrase: [N]ine influential American Muslim scholars have come together in a YouTube video to repudiate the militants’ message. The nine represent a diversity of theological schools within Islam, and several of them have large followings among American Muslim [...]

You get the strong sense reading through the Anti-Defamation League’s objection to the Ground Zero Mosque Cordoba House that they know better than to object. They’re not cool with “appeals to bigotry on the basis of religion, and condemn those whose opposition to this proposed Islamic Center is a manifestation of such bigotry.” They say [...]

Via Yglesias, Robert Wright has a pitch-perfect piece about the tragedy of demonizing the Cordoba House/Ground-Zero-Mosque: No doubt Osama bin Laden, if apprised of the situation, would hope that Rauf will cave in to these demands and ritually denounce Hamas. Because the Muslims who are most vulnerable to bin Laden’s recruiting pitch are, it’s safe [...]

Yesterday, Sarah Palin tweeted: Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing As it turns out, near North Sixth Street and Kentucky Avenue in Waco, Texas, you can find the Greater Mount Carmel Church. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because the Mount [...]

If ever you want to see an effort at stripping American identity from American Muslims, this ad denouncing the Ground Zero Mosque is a perfect case in point. In its conflation of Muslims with al-Qaeda, it’s everything Usama bin Laden ever hoped for. The basic critique that the addled conspiracy theorists of al-Qaeda have proffered, [...]

Via Ben Smith, the Bergen Record‘s Mike Kelly lets the anti-Ground Zero mosque set display its canny and subtle understanding of Islam: At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly surrounded two Egyptian men who were speaking Arabic and were thought to be Muslims. “Go home,” several shouted from the crowd. “Get out,” others [...]

I get a lot of bullshit emails from rightwing organizations that make racist claims about Teh Muslimz. In fact, I get so many — Family Security Matters, I’m looking in your bigoted direction — that my eyes typically glaze over. Zach Roth shows why that reflex ought to be resisted. He’s got a story about [...]