"He And His Palestinian Wife."

Grover Norquist has been a conservative voice of sanity on Islam and terrorism in the past, and today is no different:

"The support for criticizing a mosque is half a mile wide and an inch deep," conservative activist Grover Norquist warned. "And at the end of the process, the only people who will remember it are the people who feel threatened by this -- not just Muslims, but Sikhs, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Mormons."

Although there may be short-term political gain now from criticizing the mosque project, he said, the subsequent backlash and perception of religious intolerance may last a long time.

Democrats would do well to listen to Norquist as well. With that in mind, though, it's worth pointing out how the conspiracy theorists who have fueled the hysteria over the so-called Ground Zero Mosque see Norquist:

Grover Norquist's ties to Islamic supremacists and jihadists have been known for years. He and his Palestinian wife, Samah Alrayyes -- who was director of communications for his Islamic Free Market Institute until they married in 2005 -- are very active in "Muslim outreach." Just six weeks after 9/11, The New Republic ran an exposé explaining how Norquist arranged for George W. Bush to meet with fifteen Islamic supremacists at the White House on September 26, 2001 -- to show how Muslims rejected terrorism.

That's Malcolm X enthusiast Pamela Geller, who concludes, "If not for useful tools like Norquist, Islamic supremacists could never gain such a foothold, an absolute intellectual dominance at the senior levels of our most critical government agencies; nor would elections be won by stealth jihadists as they infiltrate our government."