My column today is about “The Tolerant Pose” of proponents of the Ground Zero mosque — folk like President Obama who lecture us on their “unshakable commitment” to the abstraction of “religious freedom” while ignoring the concrete reality of sharia and Islamic intolerance.

At this point, I have to thank the GZ mosque sponsors, who are now calling themselves “Park 51″ — their former handle, the “Cordoba House” or “Cordoba Initiative,” having proved too revealing of their supremacist political agenda. On cue, they have provided us with another window through which to see who they really are.

As discussed here last evening, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published a report that the mosque sponsors had abandoned their plans to build at Ground Zero, and, as Dan foretold, that report turned out to be wrong. The report, however, set the sponsors on a spate of tweeting. It included the following:

PARK51: On a side note, if Haaretz likes publishing fables, perhaps they could go back to the Yiddish ones with parables #welikethosebetter.

Remarkably, just prior to that one, the sponsors tweeted, “Our mission is one of peace, understanding, tolerance and faith.” Yup. [Thanks to Robert Spencer.]