After challenging GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain over a string of anti-Muslim comments, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace decided where it's appropriate to peddle Islamophobia.
The specific topic under discussion was Cain's support of a Murfreesboro, TN group who attempted to prevent local Muslims from building a mosque near their town.
To his credit, Wallace actually leveled some fairly aggressive questions at Cain, who absurdly insisted that, even though his opposition to building places of worship is limited to Muslims, that somehow that position does not constitute discrimination. Partway through the conversation, however, Wallace slipped into the scapegoating mindset that has dominated Fox News' coverage of both the Murfreesboro mosque, and the Islamic cultural center being planned near the World Trade Center in New York, a project dubbed the “ground zero mosque” by Fox hosts.
After Cain claimed Muslims are “trying to infuse their position into the community and the people in the community don't like it,” Wallace questioned Cain's opposition to this particular mosque given that “this isn't Ground Zero in New York City. It's not hallowed ground.” Wallace then asked: “Don't Americans have a right of whatever religion, under the constitution, which you speak so much about, to free speech and freedom to worship?”
Apparently only Chris Wallace gets to decide where “free speech and freedom to worship” no longer applies.
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