Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser: he could not hate the Ground Zero mosque so, did he not love Muslims more.

Mr. President this is not about religious freedom. It is about the importance of the World Trade Center site to the psyche of the American People. It is about a blatant attack on our sovereignty by people whose ideology ultimately demands the elimination of our way of life. While Imam Faisal Rauf may not share their violent tendencies he does seem to share a belief that Islamic structures are a political statement and even Ground Zero should be looked upon through the lens of political Islam and not a solely American one.

As a Muslim desperate to reform his faith, your remarks take us backwards from the day that my faith will come into modernity. I do not stand to eliminate Imam Rauf's religious freedom; I stand to make sure that my children's religious freedom will be determined by the liberty guaranteed in the American Constitution and not by clerics or leaders who are apologists for shar'iah law and will tell me what religious freedom is..

These are the people who going to reform Islam, not the "hear no evil, see no evil" types like Rauf who condone Islamic terrorism by refusing to condemn it.

The Park51 tweeting is obnoxious and deceitful. This is the "dialogue" they're trying to promote? They can't build their Islamic center somewhere that wasn't the site of a building destroyed by Muslim terrorists in the name of Islam? These people have the mentality of a seven-year-old who marches around swinging his arms and says it's his sister's fault for getting hit because she was in the way.

UPDATE: Via Glenn, Bill Whittle and Jim Treacher weigh in. Whittle makes some great historical points.

UPDATE: The Park51 tweeter has apparently been sacked.

Update: We are in the process of introducing a new team and are issuing apologies for any prior tweets that may have caused offense.

So, maybe there's hope some adults over there will take charge and move the Islamic center somewhere nearby that doesn't piss off 68% of Americans.

UPDATE: Stealing a bit from Allahpundit seems appropriate here, so I have two exit questions:

1) Where are all these lefties so concerned about free expression when a Southern state does anything vaguely resembling honoring their Confederate heritage?

2) What did they, and the Cordoba people, think of "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day," an actual free speech protest against violence directed at people exercising their rights?

UPDATE: Ace has a big roundup of mosque-ings from all over.