Of all the defense of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, Sen. Al Franken's is predictably the funniest, responding to absurd fearmongering with an appropriate level of mockery:
U.S. Sen. Al Franken gave a quip-filled speech at the Democratic County Chairmen’s Association breakfast Wednesday, attacking Republicans for opposing the building of a mosque blocks from Ground Zero in New York City. [...] Franken said conservative opposition to the mosque is “one of the most disgraceful things that I’ve heard.”
“I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it. It’s a community center. They’re going to have a gym. They’re going to have point guards. Muslim point guards,” Franken said, to laughter and applause.
In fairness to Park 51's opponents, though, the East Coast has traditionally had much to fear from New York-raised Muslim centers, if not point guards. They're fighting them now so they don't have to fight them later.
