Repost from May 21, 2010As explained a multitude of times on this blog and other forums, the pattern of demonization and dehumanizing of Muslims is clear:    The usual garbage is that Muslims – all Muslims – are fanatical, all imams preach violence, all mosques are “hotbeds of radicalization” – therefore all Muslims are dangerous fanatics that are responsible for any act of violence committed by Muslims – including in the remote regions of Planet Earth.  This is absolute hate-mongering and it has NO place in a free society, which requires tolerance of all persons.Despite the many things that Americans screw-up in the world, there is one thing that Americans do right – and that is dealing with hate-mongers  of all strips, including the American Brown Shirts in the nutcase Tea Party with its nutcake members known as Tea Baggers.Well one of the nutcakes fell off the wall this week with sick comments about Cordoba House, a 13 story Islamic cultural enter describe as a center to help bring about peace and healing to the city. The problem that nutcake Mark Williams and other Islamophobes have with the Islamic center is that it’s two blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood.Williams, the Tea Party Express leader, went into a Islamophobic rant on his blog, calling the Cordoba Center a “monument ‘for the worship of the terrorists’ monkey-god.’ ” This cultural center would be used to “propagandize for the extermination of all things not approved by their cult” and “for terrorists and the animals who use it as a terrorist ideology.”After being rightfully blasted by those of us that live in the sane and rational world, Williams was unrepentant for his hate speech: “In the course of the article I described the ‘god’ worshiped by terrorists as ‘a monkey god’.  I was wrong and that was offensive…I owe an apology to millions of Hindus who worship Lord Hanuman, an actual Monkey God.”“Monkey god” is most defiantly racist – as “monkeys and apes” are often used by racists to degrade black people and other people of color.  “Monkey” and images of monkeys were used against President Obama by this same kind of racist Tea Party ilk.

Keith Olbermann, yes, gotta love him! Thumbs up – on how Williams corrected his own hate babble – which sounds a bit like Wilderspraatje (Wilders’ babble) – or even the ranting madness of other self-hating Dutchmen, like  Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh.What was inspiring – and reflective of how Americans stood up in the Civil Rights movement – was to see New York’s politicians out on the site of the Cordoba House, condemning Williams and his Islamophobic sickness:Borough President Scott Stringer said, “his spewing of racial hatred reminds me…of Adolph Hitler. We reject him. We reject his bigotry.Listen to the hopeful message - “bigotry has no place in the Lower Manhattan” and “bigotry has no place in the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.” “The only way we have rebuilt is by coming together…”The Hitler-like comments – reminiscent of self-hating Dutchman, Pim Fortuyn, toward Dutch Muslims, have no place in a torn place like Lower Manhattan, which seeks reconciliation and peace after the September 11 attacks.  Two blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood is the most ideal place for this Islamic center. It will stand in defiance of hate, both from the September 11th hijackers and the likes of Mark Williams and the Tea Party nutcakes.Yes – Europe watch how we deal with hateful, anti-freedom, anti-democratic bigots like Mark Williams – and take notes. We go after them – and make them slither back under the rocks that they slithered out of. This is what needs to happen with all “anti-Islam political parties” in the Netherlands and Europe- including the anti-Semitic and anti-Roma parties- they need to be chased back under the filthy rocks these slimballs slithered out of.!Cordoba House:  Hope From the Ashes of Tragedy – updated