They're all such victims.
[Debra Burlingame] criticized those, mostly led by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who are defending the project under freedom of religion, saying, "That's a Western concept."
"This is a different model," she said, arguing that in the United States people "for generations had been raised on this concept of separation of church and state, and that you don't trash someone because of their religion ... but that's not what we're dealing with here."
"I think the challenge for us is enlisting the Muslims who have already bought into the American program and not adjusting" to Muslim culture, she added. For Burlingame, the issue is not political — she said she objects to the content as well as the form of efforts by Bloomberg and others to push back because the goal is "to shut you up."
Yes, how dare we apply a "western concept" of the Bill of Rights to New York City.
But it was former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee who seemed to fit the issue most clearly into a recognizable political category of culture war.
"Is it just that we can offend Americans and Christians, but not foreigners and Muslims?" he asked.
First off, some Americans are Muslims. Secondly, who's offending Christians? This is part of the far right's "Christians aren't welcome in America" garbage. Yes, we all await the day that a Christian is finally elected to office in America. Huckabee simply assumes the GOP base is dumb, and that they'll fall for this nonsense. And they are, and they will.
