Another Milepost On The Road To Oblivion

When people like CNN's Jack Cafferty are asking questions like this:

Are Muslims buying themselves unnecessary problems by insisting on building a mosque near Ground Zero in New York?

...then we as a people have forgotten almost everything about civil rights and freedoms.  How many times, how many ways can we tell a minority group of Americans "don't rock the boat or you'll sink"?  I understand there's a long journey for any minority group in America to get to acceptable status, but even then "acceptable" status always has to be fought for...by rocking the boat.

You're too close to the front of the bus. You're too close to the front of the lunch counter. You're too close to that water fountain and that bathroom. You're too close to Ground Zero.

Don't go borrowing trouble.

Yeah, American history is full of advancing civil rights by accepting separate but equal status and not "buying unnecessary problems".

[UPDATE]: From Waffles in the comments:

There not saying "You cannot build the mosque at all"

You're stretching badly.

Really.  Nobody, huh.

GUPTA: Thank you. I want to be clear on your viewpoint here because you've made quite a bit of waves lately. You don't want any mosques built in the United States, is that correct? You want a moratorium?

FISCHER: I think the reality Dr. Gupta is, that when we look at Islam, we're looking at a totalitarian ideology that is anti-Christian, anti-Semitic. The values that are at the core of Islam are contrary to every single solitary western and American value. I think communities ought to have the liberty to reject building permits.

Each one of these mosques is either a potential or actual recruitment center for Jihadism or training center for Jihadism.

GUPTA: You said quite a bit there already. Let me just start with one thing, freedom of religion. You've been asked this question before; it's one of this country's founding principles.

The First Amendment says, Congress shall make no law respecting (ph) an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

How can you say that that potentially applies to all religions except Islam?

FISCHER: Well, the reality, Dr. Gupta, is that no one could claim First Amendment religious protections if their ideology and their activities are subversive.

All you've got do is ask the Christian militia, the Hutaree how much First Amendment protections they had when they set out to attack federal officers. They have Bible verses plastered all over their Web site. Everything they did, they did in the name of Jesus Christ. They are right now pondering the limits of the First Amendment from the inside of a jail cell, which is where they should be.

But of course, Fischer sees this as evidence that Islam is subversive, not Christianity, because of course Hutaree didn't represent Christianity, but 9/11 represented every single Muslim.  These assholes don't give a damn about the Constitution.  They just hate Muslims, period.