Newspaper: President Obama's Mosquerade

Investor's Business Daily puts the Ground Zero mosque controversy into proper perspective in an editorial, pointing out how tone-deaf Barack Obama is to the sensitivities of the American people.

Mahmoud al-Zahar and Feisal Abdul Rauf may want to build everywhere, but the American people are saying not just anywhere. The American people who put you in the White House are just saying not this mosque, not near Ground Zero, and not now.

If you can't understand why, Mr. President, we have a problem. In fact, the mosque is a mere 600 feet from Ground Zero, so close that the landing gear from one of the 9/11 planes crashed into a building on the proposed site.

The mosque at Ground Zero is not about outreach. Evidently President Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are not aware of why the name Cordoba House was picked. It is named after the bloody Muslim conquest of Cordoba, Spain, in 711. It will be seen as another Islamic victory.

Is this mosque going to be a bastion of religious tolerance? Its Imam Rauf is a man who has said he has no use for religious dialogue and believes 9/11 was America's fault.

In a "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sept. 30, 2001, he said: "I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened, but United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened."

President Obama's Mosquerade - IBD - Investors.com