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August 30, 2010

Anti-mosque sentiment rages far from Ground Zero

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Terrorism raises it's ugly head in the US. Obviously, protests about the Mosque placed in Lower Manhattan has inspired American terrorism.
Anti-mosque sentiment rages far from Ground Zero - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com:
"Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Nashville suburb....
The arsonists undoubtedly will be happy to tell you how much they hate Terrorism. And how there's a War on Christianity underway in the U.S. The harm from these actions are not merely the physical damage they cause, but also the well-grounded fear it imposes on a minority of the American population. If you launch a nationwide, anti-Islamic campaign in Lower Manhattan based on the toxic premise that Muslims generally are responsible for 9/11 -- and spend a decade expanding American wars on one Muslim country after the next -- this is the inevitable, and obviously dangerous, outcome."
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