{"id":6889,"date":"2010-08-25T00:45:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:16:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:16:03","slug":"mrff-expresses-support-for-ground-zero-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/25\/mrff-expresses-support-for-ground-zero-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"MRFF Expresses Support for Ground Zero Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to an inquiry, Michael Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2010\/08\/19\/military-religious-freedom-head-blasts-ny-mosque-opponents\/\">expressed his support<\/a> for what has been dubbed the &#8220;Ground Zero Mosque&#8221; in New York City.\u00a0 Notably, he criticized those who oppose the mosque\/community center because&#8230;their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/08\/22\/protests-rhetoric-feed-jihadists\/\">criticism offends &#8220;jihadists.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 Interestingly, Weinstein did not reserve his invective purely for Christians:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This [opposition\u00a0to the mosque]\u00a0is the work of fundamentalist Christians and\u00a0ultra-extreme, rightwing Jews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, the man who <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/07\/michael-weinstein-christian-bigotry-can-lead-to-genocide\/\">believes Christians are planning to exterminate Jews<\/a> believes &#8220;rightwing Jews&#8221; are now helping them.\u00a0 The cognitive dissonance continues below.<\/p>\n<p>For those keeping track:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Weinstein <strong>Defends NY Mosque<\/strong>: &#8220;Weinstein is appalled at the bigotry and cowardice of those who would deny Muslims their First Amendment and \u201chuman rights\u201d to open a community center and a mosque in New York City.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Weinstein <strong>Defends USAFA Pagan circle<\/strong>: &#8220;The abhorrent placing of a&#8230;cross at the official worship site of the [USAFA] earth-centered religions is nothing short of a despicable, cold and calculated hate crime of the most serious magnitude.&#8221;\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/cross-found-at-usafa-pagan-circle\/\">previous story<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Weinstein <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Defends<\/span> <em>Attacks <\/em>Marine beach service<\/strong>:\u00a0 &#8220;Lt. 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Kaifesh, and his entire culpable USMC\/DoD chain of command, [have] magnificently advanc[ed] the cause of [al Qaeda&#8217;s] &#8220;U.S. as Crusaders&#8221; propaganda machine.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/freedom-group-seeks-ban-on-religious-exercise-in-the-us-military\/\">previous story<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The intellectual inconsistency of Weinstein&#8217;s &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; mantra is difficult to comprehend, until you realize his statements are entirely consistent&#8230;it is the mantra of &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; that has nothing to do with his aims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to an inquiry, Michael Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation expressed his support for what has been dubbed the &#8220;Ground Zero Mosque&#8221; in New York City.\u00a0 Notably, he criticized those who oppose the mosque\/community center because&#8230;their criticism offends &#8220;jihadists.&#8221;\u00a0 Interestingly, Weinstein did not reserve his invective purely for Christians: This [opposition\u00a0to the mosque]\u00a0is the work of fundamentalist [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[913,149,85,2,5218,804,7,904,76,10,171,65],"class_list":["post-6889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-ground-zero","tag-marines","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mosque","tag-mrff","tag-new-york-city","tag-pagan","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}