William Kristol ties them all in together for us here...
"Despite criticism from Republicans and others, President Barack Obama said Wednesday he has 'no regrets' over the comments he made about the right of Muslims to build an Islamic center near the former site of the World Trade Center in New York."
In alluding to "Non, je ne regrette rien" ("No, I regret nothing"), the French song famously performed by the great Édith Piaf, is President Obama subtly indicating that the battle for the mosque is over?
After all, it's well known Piaf dedicated her 1960 recording of the song to the French Foreign Legion--and that, in 1961, when the Legion's 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment had backed the failed coup attempt by the French military, the Legionnaires left their barracks singing "Non, je ne regrette rien." It's a song of lost causes. Sounds like "no regrets" is Obama's gentle way of preparing his allies for the fact that the Ground Zero mosque has become a lost cause."
In alluding to "Non, je ne regrette rien" ("No, I regret nothing"), the French song famously performed by the great Édith Piaf, is President Obama subtly indicating that the battle for the mosque is over?
After all, it's well known Piaf dedicated her 1960 recording of the song to the French Foreign Legion--and that, in 1961, when the Legion's 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment had backed the failed coup attempt by the French military, the Legionnaires left their barracks singing "Non, je ne regrette rien." It's a song of lost causes. Sounds like "no regrets" is Obama's gentle way of preparing his allies for the fact that the Ground Zero mosque has become a lost cause."
And just how close is this nightmare of an idea from being over? In a seperate article, Kristol quotes Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid, former editor of the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat and a director for Al-Arabiya TV as saying recently...
"I cannot imagine that Muslims want a mosque on this particular site, because it will be turned into an arena for promoters of hatred, and a symbol of those who committed the crime. At the same time, there are no practicing Muslims in the district who need a place of worship, because it is indeed a commercial district....The last thing Muslims want today is to build just a religious center out of defiance to the others, or a symbolic mosque that people visit as a museum next to a cemetery....[T]he battle against the 11 September terrorists is a Muslim battle...and this battle still is ablaze in more than 20 Muslim countries. Some Muslims will consider that building a mosque on this site immortalizes and commemorates what was done by the terrorists who committed their crime in the name of Islam. I do not think that the majority of Muslims want to build a symbol or a worship place that tomorrow might become a place about which the terrorists and their Muslim followers boast, and which will become a shrine for Islam haters whose aim is to turn the public opinion against Islam"
So as we can see, even fair minded Muslims are calling for the mosque not to be built. Contrast that to the, *ahem*, "bridge builders" who continue pushing for the construction of the Victory Mosque and refuse to even meet with the Governor of New York to discuss the possiblity of moving it to another location due to the uproar they are causing.
Meanwhile, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has decided that her party's prospects in the upcoming mid-term elections isn't quite abysmal enough and is calling for investigations of those who are opposed the Hamasque. That way, they can positively guarantee the outrage of the American people and the mosque doesn't get built and the Democrats lose both the House and the Senate. One is left wondering where the Dem's ever found such a modern day kamikazee squadron to advise them on policy matters.
