Fox and the right-wing media have led the opposition to Park51, often using inflammatory, anti-Muslim rhetoric, and comparing Muslims to Nazis, among other things. Recent anti-Park51 protestors have echoed the right-wing media's rhetoric and imagery, invoking Nazis and anti-Muslim smears.
Sekulow compares
Islamic center to "monument to kamikaze pilots" at Pearl
Harbor. On the August 4 edition of Fox
News' Happening Now, co-host Jon
Scott said, "The mayor says it would show what a great
and tolerant country America is if you allow the building
of a mosque in this site. Do you have an answer for that?" Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, responded, "That argument
is like saying this: It would be appropriate and show tolerance to allow a
monument to kamikaze pilots at the site of the Arizona at Pearl Harbor."
Sekulow later described the Islamic center as "a 15-story monument to what
happened on 9-11."
Buchanan compares
Park51 to Nazis marching through Skokie, IL.
On the August 4 edition of
MSNBC's Morning Joe, contributor
Pat Buchanan compared the Park51 center to the Nazi march through Skokie, IL, claiming that it was a "provocation" and
said the center is "deliberately insensitive." Buchanan said "I don't know why
the Islamic leaders don't see this isn't bringing us together and it's not
helping, and take a unilateral step and pull back."
Limbaugh compares
Islamic center to the Klan building a memorial in Gettysburg. On the August 3 edition
of his radio show, Limbaugh asked a caller, "What would happen, do you think, if
the Ku Klux Klan established a memorial at Gettysburg?" Limbaugh later said, "They
wouldn't get to first base. Nobody would put up with the Klan building a
memorial anywhere, much less Gettysburg."
Gingrich compares
Islamic center to Nazis erecting sign near Holocaust museum, Japanese site near
Pearl Harbor. On the August 16
edition of Fox News' Fox &
Friends, Newt Gingrich said,
"Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in
Washington. We
would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque
next to the World
Trade Center."
McGuirk: You
wouldn't build "a sushi stand at the Pearl
Harbor memorial." On the May 20 edition of Fox
News' Hannity, radio host Amy
Walter said, "You would never build something like a German cultural center
outside of Auschwitz. You wouldn't do that,
even 50 years later. It's wrong. It's in poor taste. You just don't do
that." Imus in the
Morning producer Bernard McGuirk replied, "Or a sushi stand at the
Pearl Harbor memorial." [Transcript from
Nexis.]
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