Modern day Republicans learnt one thing from the NaZis. Tactics.

When the American right were being taught second world war history in their youth, they did not learn anything about the horrors of the period they learnt how to modernise the NAZI tactics of spreading fear and hate.

Lunatic right wing bloggers have started a campaign against a "mega mosque to be built on the ground zero". There is no such plan. The bloggers on the right doing the most to spread this are doing it only for their personal and political gain at the expense of slandering a religion and enraging Americans. It should be of no surprise that Fox News will be getting in on selling the bigotry. Fox have invited Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs and "Executive Director" of "Stop the Islamification of America" (whose equivalent group is very closely related to the Neo Nazi British National Party).

Geller has already been on Sean Hannity's radio show spreading her lies.

Here is a quote from one of the extreme right blogs spreading her lies.



Never mind how disgusted people should be for the suggestion that the victims of 9/11 should be modelled as pigs. People should feel disgusted that that quote is from a now mainstream Republican blog. What would the reaction be if this was written about the building of a synagogue?

Yet you have a national news network, that is syndicated in many Countries across the World selling this crap.

So what is the truth?

No mosque is being proposed for Ground Zero. It is a complete and utter lie designed to spread hate.

What is actually proposed? A cultural outreach building to counter misunderstanding and fear about Islam that will have within it a mosque.

From the developers site:



Where is it? Not on Ground Zero.



Slandering a religion and creating the politics of fear did not work out well in the 1930's. The difference between then and now was that the far right did not have a 24 hour news network to back them.

I really do worry about America. An election defeat should have given the right an opportunity to look at their principles and beliefs and offer something to the American people. Instead they are promoting the only beauty queen to have never called for world peace as President who is busy endorsing convicted war criminals for Congress. Appealing to the very worst of peoples fears and bigotry should never again be acceptable.

would be too much even for the most uncritical true believer. But sometimes I wonder. Right now they seem to believe anything that they are told.

to line up for their yellow stars. You know, then they will be able to tell legals from nons :rofl:

have discovered Islamaphobia because they are convinced that the President is a "scary muslim". If it was not for the oil they would have no interest in the Middle East, except of course that the religious states there are the model of how they would like the West to really live.

supporting their accusations instead of calling them out for the lunacy that they are you can understand why they just continue to lie and lie.

It becomes worse though when this is directed towards a religion for narrow political advantage.

These tactics should never ever be acceptable.

Comparing a President to a Nazi for wanting to introduce a simple subsidy system for healthcare is stupid.

Comparing the tactics of those demonising a whole religion to the extent of whipping up violence against that religion is essential.