White Supremacists Totally Oppose Cordoba House

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People who have nothing serious to say about an issue often resort to fallacious arguments. One common — and cheap — fallacy is known as “guilt by association.”

The righties are all in a tizzy this morning because of this:

Murdoch’s Post reports that a leader of Hamas is pro-Cordoba House, and the wingnut bloggers rush in to shout it from the rooftops. It’s proof — those supporting the “mosque” are in league with the terrrrrsts!

Two can play that game, however. Here are the first few graphs from Occidental Dissent’s post on the mosque:

The Ground Zero Mosque is without a doubt the most outrageous surrender to political correctness and multiculturalism that I have ever seen in my lifetime.

It is a 13-story monument to Islamic terrorism that will be built as a tribute to 9/11 victims on a national graveyard. The groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled to take place on September 11th. The Ground Zero Mosque will open its doors on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

The audacity of these people and their calculated symbolism is breathtaking. I’ve never seen a bigger slap across the face of White America.

Occidental Dissent is an openly white supremacist site. Ergo, by the same logic that compels wingnuts to report the non-news that some guy who belongs to Hamas thinks it’s a grand idea, those opposing the Cordoba House are in league with white supremacists.

This is much easier than actually making an argument of some kind.

Update: Paul Woodward points out that the story is, not surprisingly, wrong.