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In “Psycho Talk” tonight, Bill O'Reilly weighs in on the lower Manhattan Islamic center brouhaha.
To his credit, he thinks all the hype is ridiculous. Fantastic.
But when he tries to explain why, well, the wheels fall off the wagon.
This whole controversy
is absurd. If you just strip away all your ideology, it‘s not about freedom of religion.
There are more than 100 mosques in New York City.
More than 100. OK? There isn‘t a Muslim within a mile.
Who‘s going to go to this thing?
OK? I mean, it‘s just crazy.
So I don‘t get it. Is he saying that there are already so many mosques around there,
that this isn‘t an issue and the rest of the networks should shut up about it?
Or is he saying there are no Muslims within a mile of Ground Zero?
It he‘s saying his network is full of it because they already have all those mosques there,
then great. We agree. If he‘s saying no Muslims live within a mile of the planned Islamic center,
well, let‘s take a look at lower Manhattan and find out.
You see the World Trade Center site. Then a couple of blocks away
you have the site for the community center.
Then a few blocks north
of that, look at that, there‘s a mosque.
A few more blocks,
another mosque.
I‘m going to climb out on a limb here and say that there are Muslims in the vicinity
of Ground Zero.
But O‘Reilly seems to think that there's some kind of Muslim free zone within a mile
radius of the community center.
Did you know that there are more than 600,000 Muslims in New York City?
They‘re part of this community,
so much so that there were dozens of Muslim-Americans
who were killed at Ground Zero
on 9/11.
So, suggesting that there are no Muslims within a mile of the proposed
Islamic community center is nothing but “Psycho Talk.”