Keith Olbermann is angry at Sarah Palin’s new name for the Ground Zero mosque, n.k.a. the 9/11 mosque. Olbermann tweets:
RT @SarahPalinUSA Will Obama express US lingering pain& ask Muslims for tolerance by discouraging 9/11 mosque /Madam:Stop politicizing 9/11
I wonder, by what definition could we call this the “9/11 mosque?” Maybe if the organizers of the project chose this site specifically because it was damaged during 9/11? Would that count? USA Today from May 10 (emphasis mine):
But the growing number of congregants at the only other nearby mosque, open only one day a week, created a need for an additional space for Muslim prayer in the neighborhood, said Daisy Khan, the executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement and a board member of the Cordoba Initiative, the two organizations sponsoring the project.
The history associated with the building, a former Burlington Coat Factory store that closed after being damaged on 9/11, was a reason to pick it for the project, she said.
“We want to create a platform by which the voices of the mainstream and silent majority of Muslims will be amplified. A center of this scale and magnitude will do that,” Khan said. “We feel it’s an obligation as Muslims and Americans to be part of the rebuilding of downtown Manhattan.”
Sounds like a 9/11 mosque to me.