The anti-Muslim vitriol ... in America? :(

It is deplorable that Islam and Muslims are sought to be held responsible for the acts of a few who preach hate and practise terrorism in the name of saving the religion. There were Muslims among those killed in the 9/11 attacks. The hostility to the proposed centre, to which the 2008 vice-presidential candidate's tweet has added political overtones, reveals that considerable sections of American public opinion continue to believe that Muslims must collectively be punished for the attacks. Despite the celebrated U.S. constitutional guarantees on the freedom to worship, there have been instances of communities blocking the construction of religious buildings, usually non-Christian ones, for ‘civic' reasons. The final go-ahead for the building project has to come from the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which could turn it down on the ground that the existing building is a historical landmark. It would be a great pity if the most liberal-minded of American cities joins the list of places that suffer from Islamophobia.

An editorial all the way from my favorite newspaper in India.

It is awful how the situation has been shaped into a raging anti-Islam propaganda .... with simultaneous chants of how this is a Christian nation.  It is hard to believe that New Gingrich was once a university history professor when he says the following:

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.  ...
They ignore the fact that more than 100 mosques already exist in New York City. Meanwhile, there are no churches or synagogues in all of Saudi Arabia.

WTF!  Hey, Professor Newt, using the same remarkable logic, here is another statement you should issue:

McDonald's does not have beef-hamburgers on the menu in India.  Until this is reversed, we shall not allow any Indian restaurant here in America.

What might Atticus Finch say about the likes of Gingrich and Sarah "refudiate" Palin who are on this path of bigotry?

They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep.

Or, perhaps I should quote to Gingrich one of the famous lines from a dark period in America's recent history:

"Have You No Sense of Decency?"