Good Cop, Bad Cop: The Political Theatre of the Ground Zero Mosque Power Couple

Oh, talk about cool operators.

The role of Daisy Khan, wife of the Ground-Zero-Mosque-Honcho, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is to feed the flames surrounding the project in such a way as to demonize its opponents, drive away those among them who might shrink from the nonsensical conflation of anti-GZM sentiment and anti-Jewishness, and incite anti-Americanism here and abroad by tagging opposition to the mosque as American hatred of all Muslims.

So did Khan recently dig deep in her no doubt ample, multiculturalist, victimhood-minded bag of tricks to vilify and insult Americans by comparing the treatment of Muslims in the U.S. to discrimination against Jews, all the while cooing agreeably (another multiculturalist specialty) about how the GMZ – a White-Washed Sepulcher if ever there was one – would be a monument to “tolerance” and “mutual respect.”

“This is like a metastasized anti-Semitism,” she said. “It’s not even Islamophobia, it’s beyond Islamophobia – it’s hate of Muslims.”

At last we see the real Daisy, who prior to this venomous coming-out had been keeping her powder dry. Thus earlier this month she met secretly with 9/11 victims’ families in a botched effort to calm their fears about the project.

In attendance was retired firefighter Robert Reeg, who was injured on 9/11. He related that Khan and her fellow mosque supporters refused to reveal anything about the sources of the $100 million needed to finance it. “They kept talking about wanting to build bridges, but they weren’t answering any questions,” he commented. Another attendee described Khan as “very arrogant.”

Meanwhile, Khan’s husband Rauf tippy-taps seemingly innocuously on, striking ever a positive note, as if on a cloud (think, well, sparingly, of Astaire), in the interest of realizing his grandiose project.

In the view of the leader of 9/11 Families for a Strong America, Debra Burlingame, whose brother perished in those atrocities, “Rauf is a soft-spoken, smart-talking, warm and fuzzy imam – that’s the way he’d like to be perceived. But he is a fraud.”

This is the same Rauf who in part blamed the U.S. for the 9/11 attacks, refuses to condemn terrorist Hamas, may accept funds and take his marching orders from Saudi charities and or Gulf chieftains that also fund extremist madrassas worldwide, and has extensive links to the imperialistic Muslim Brotherhood.

Khan and Rauf are, in short, as the president of Family Security Matters, Carol Taber, describes Rauf in a rousing critique, representatives “of an ideology that is political as much as it is religious, an ideology that seeks to overthrow the U.S. government and replace it with a barbaric tyranny.”

This twosome is engaging in pure theater – pure theatrical negotiating tactics in the interest of evil, global political goals. In tandem they have likely, from the beginning, sought to entice to their cause those attune both to stridency and the semblance of sweet reason.

In the end, the Daisy-Feisal pas de deux should be seen as integral to a larger tableau, a death-by-a-thousand-blows to liberty and, ultimately, an incalculably horrific dance of death.