'Ground Zero Mosque'

Dutch Keynote Speaker At Anti-Mosque Rally: 'America, New York And Sharia Are Incompatible'

Jillian Rayfield | September 11, 2010, 10:33PM

If today's rally against the Park51 Islamic center was an exercise in contradictions about tolerance, then Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders was the perfect pick for keynote speaker. In his remarks Wilders repeatedly lauded America's record of tolerance while asserting that "openness can never be open-ended. A tolerant society is not a suicidal society."

"We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us," Wilder said. "New York is rooted in Dutch tolerance. New York is tolerant, not intolerant. What if New York was intolerant?" Then it "would not be New York, it would be Mecca."

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Park51

Anti-Mosque Rally All About How It's Not About Intolerance

Jillian Rayfield | September 11, 2010, 7:54PM

In downtown Manhattan today, about 1,500 people gathered to protest the planned Park51 Islamic center near Ground Zero. Speakers assured the crowd that it's not that they're intolerant, because this isn't about tolerance, exactly -- but so what if it is, because Islam is intolerant? Or something.

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