The Distributist posts a link to his favorite new site, catholicmaine.com, with the following excerpt regarding the NYC Muslim community center:

Lost amid all the incendiary discussion about the Super Mosque being planned within a grenade’s toss from Ground Zero is the struggle to rebuild the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. The building stood for nearly 90 years, finding itself in the shadow of the Twin Towers, and eventually reduced to dust on 9/11.

I hypothesize that even the people trying to block the “Mosque” understand how weak their arguments are when the raw emotions are put aside. Otherwise they wouldn’t need to be so misleading. For example, the first sentence above has two glaring lies:

1. The proposed building is called a “Super Mosque?” by catholicmaine.com. Really? Super? Does it fly? It is a community center. It has a prayer space. Think of it as a YMCA with a chapel inside. Would you call such a YMCA a “Super Church?” Probably not.

2. The community center is a “grenade’s throw” from Ground Zero? Absolutely wrong, unless you are one hell of a grenade thrower. And who measures distance in grenade throws, anyways? I’ll tell you who: people that hate Muslims. People like The Distributist.