Exposing right wing depravity and hypocrisy is probably too easy (shooting fish in a barrel) but I still give Justin Elliot and Jonathan Chait credit for pointing this out. Former Bush appointee and convicted felon Bernie Kerik is complaining about a Muslim Community Center in lower Manhattan, which is near the site of the WTC bombings.
Meanwhile, Kerik himself kept an apartment in this area -- one that was used to house "weary police and rescue workers" at the WTC site to hold extramarital affairs. So who exactly is defiling the sacred site known as Ground Zero?
Never mind that he's blogging and tweeting from jail. This is just nuts.
He tweeted a link to a Frank Gaffney video that says
If we let them defile ground zero with a beachhead for sharia we will validate their sense of victory on 9/11 and encourage future attacks on America. No mosque at Ground Zero.
Beachhead for sharia? As opposed to a beachhead for kashrut (aka Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn) or a beachhead for Christian law (Roy Moore's courtroom, the Texas Board of Education)? Gaffney and Kerik and their ilk are saying that if non-Christian community groups exercise their First Amendment rights then the terrorists win. Um, I think the opposite of that would be true!
We need to block all mosques and instead encourage brothels to honor the fallen victims of 9/11.