Gingrich reframed the center as comparable to Nazi and Japanese memorials

Evidence

Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There is no reason to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 654

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• SEED: Essay angle: the rhetorical logic of false equivalence in elite denunciation — how comparing mainstream Muslims to Nazis and imperial Japan functions as a delegitimizing move.