The Cordoba House - Not the Best Time for Liberals

The amount of certainty, dismissiveness and arrogance Liberals have shown in the not quite debate, more of a mutual stoning Iran style, that ensued following the Cordoba House project become common knowledge is unbecoming a group the claims to represent the small person.

First, liberals assume that if you don't agree with them, i.e. the Cordoba House should be built where planned, you are intolerant to religion, watch Fox TV constantly and otherwise a Neanderthal. Liberal have never addressed the real questions the project raises, the suspicions it causes, the discrepancy in its announcements and otherwise lack of information.

Asking questions is not opposition, raising issues is not intolerance. A large section of the population wanted more clarification; they are entitled to such. They do not deserve despise, rejection and accusation.

Here is a list of some clarification and discrepancies the Cordoba House was supposed to make or resolved. Neither liberals nor the project initiators have done either.

1. Imam Rauf said about 9/11: "... United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened." That is the identical argument to the one blaming the raped woman for dressing provocatively. Nowadays, such views are not considered moderate. They be relatively moderate if others are way more extreme, but relative is not badge of honor.

2. The name Cordoba is associated Islams/Moors empire in the middle ages. (Despite the ridiculous counter arguments made in TNR. The main mosque in the city of Cordoba Spain is a magnificent structure call the Mezquita. It is a church now.) Why was this name chosen?

3. If Cordoba is a benign name why was it change secretly to Park51?

4. Liberals didn't even skip a beat switching to Partk51 without any explanations. Suddenly one morning, the word Cordoba was erased from history and Park51 appeared very much like in the "good old days" of the Soviet Union. Why do liberal think that it's an acceptable behavior?

5. The Cordoba House is huge, 13 floors and will cost at least $100 million. (Projects budgeted at $100 million end up costing $200 million.) Where is the money come from?

6. If the House is supposed to be a bridge to the West, a interfaith place of meeting, a universal center, why does it have only a mosque and not church for instance? Real bridges allow everybody to walk on them in both directions. This project doesn't seem bidirectional at all. May it will be a house for people who agree with imam Rauf?

7. Why didn't liberals start the a priori difficult campaign by revealing all needed information, some of it is still missing, instead of attacking the hesitators?

8. Why did people such as Jonathan Chait and Fareed Zakaria deem the ADL an intolerant organization just because the ADL didn't agree with them? Their behavior is very Palin-like. In the culture the the Cordoba House claims to promote disagreement doesn't equate with blasphemy, virtual expulsion from civilized society and ridicule.