Cordoba House initially won broad bipartisan elite and media support.
Evidence
When the New York Times ran a front-page story on Cordoba House in December 2009, the overall tone was positive, even though it noted with some alarm what it might mean for a Muslim community center to be built so close to Ground Zero. Feisal was quoted saying that “we want to push back against the extremists.” A mother of a 9/11 victim publicly backed the Islamic center. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg supported the project, as did city officials. Even right-wing Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham seemed unperturbed: in an interview with Cordoba House co-founder Daisy Khan in December 2009, Ingraham supported the project. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 645
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- The Cordoba House proposal came from a state-co-opted ‘moderate’ Muslim establishment insider (similarity 0.80)
- The Cordoba House opposition was enabled by prior Obama-era homegrown terrorism hysteria. (similarity 0.80)
- Local politicians initially defended the Cordoba House center against right-wing attack. (similarity 0.79)
- Majority of Americans opposed the Cordoba House project (similarity 0.78)
- White-victimhood framing made a majority of Americans oppose the cordoba house project (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Cordoba House initially had cross-partisan establishment support
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