The Ground Zero Mosque debate is silly. The opponents argue that having any Mosque in NYC at all is giving the ‘terrorists’ a chance to recruit American hating suicide bombers.
Let’s remember that after 9/11 Alan Greenspan, who likes to quote Ayn Rand and mouth free market platitudes, dropped interest rates so low in America that Fed policy now equates with Islamic Sharia Law - that effectively outlaws usury.
The message here is that Greenspan, and one can assume the politicians surrounding him and coming after him - that prostrated themselves before Osama with ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policies) are not ignorant of their actions. Clearly, they have done nothing in the interim to raise interest rates and return to a system of fiat currency and fractional reserve banking; the cornerstone of America’s economy since 1971 after Nixon shut the gold window. Millions unable to live on pension incomes, getting shattered by falling wages, losing their home or job have to come around to the Fed's new found trust in Sharia Law if they have any hope of surviving this downturn.
Criticism of America’s Sharia Law compliant Fed policies have come from Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas M. Hoenig
But I don’t think Hoenig ‘gets it.’
America is trying to escape the yoke of usury and predatory lending and it will do so once all of America’s savings and capital have been spirited out of the country via 0% interest rates - leaving behind absolutely nothing to build an economy around except the gold in Fort Knox.
Again, having gold as your unit of exchange is something the ancients living in Jerusalem on both sides of the aisle would be very comfortable with indeed.