Former Bush Adviser Mark McKinnon Rips GOP’s Stance On Mosque: ‘We’re Reinforcing Al Qaeda’s Message

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

Former Bush Adviser Mark McKinnon Rips GOP’s Stance On Mosque: ‘We’re Reinforcing Al Qaeda’s Message’

On Morning Joe earlier today, a pair of leading Republicans — host Joe Scarborough and former Bush strategist Mark McKinnon — blasted the GOP for its xenophobic and unconstitutional stance against American Muslims’ right to build a new Islamic center in lower Manhattan.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has claimed that the new Islamic center project “would be like putting a Nazi sign next to the Holocaust Museum.” Referencing that quote, Scarborough expressed angry disdain at Gingrich’s intolerance. “I don’t know where to begin,” Scarborough said. “To suggest that someone trying to build a tolerance center for moderate Muslims in New York is the equivalent of killing six million Jews is stunning to me.”

McKinnon then chimed in, arguing that the debate surrounding the Cordoba House project is contrary to his party’s principles. “We may get our membership revoked,” McKinnon joked. “Screw ‘em,” Scarborough responded. McKinnon then said that the GOP’s stance is “reinforcing al Qaeda’s message”:

McKINNON: Usually Republicans are forthright in defending the Constitution. And here we are, reinforcing al Qaeda’s message that we’re at war with Muslims. So we’ve got this issue; then we’ve got the 14th Amendment issue, where Republicans are saying you’re not welcome here, when we were the architects of the 14th Amendment. So, I see a bad pattern where we’re headed as a Republican Party.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/16/mckinnon-al-qaedas-message/

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[OHdem10]

1. But did you see Baranacle's descriptions fo Bloggers:

very ugly. ..............sitting in their parent's basements
in their soiled underwear.

Well it appears to be '" let's marginalize the bloggers" time.
Add this to Will Marshall's commentary on Netroots.

Mark McKinnon has always spoken out against the haters in the GOP.

[CLANG]

2. Coming from such a serious unbiased journalist...

:eyes: :puke: :mad:

[krkaufman]

3. Well, given that the Nazis were Christians ...

... would a better Gingrich analogy be to say it's like putting a church or cross symbol next to the Holocaust Museum?