Writing at the Huffington Post, Ahmed Rehab of CAIR reproduces a email circulated by the Tea Party opposing the Park51 development. As he points out, it demonstrates that the campaign against the “Ground Zero mosque” is “motivated by an ideological belief that ‘Islam is evil and must be stopped; America is Judeo-Christian'”.

The Tea Party email asserts that the principle of freedom of religion does not apply to Islam, as it is “a religion [that] can and does demand world domination by any means, including violence if necessary”. The email demands:

“Should the first amendment protect the practice of a religion which has a hostile political agenda wrapped in cleric’s robes? Should the U.S. Constitution protect a religion whose focus is converting the United States from a Democratic Republic into a Theocracy lead by religious cleric’s who are antithetical to what made this nation great and what keeps it great? …

“Should ‘We The People’ give haven to religions whose main purpose it to install a system of Theo-political colonization? Shall the American people welcome with open arms a religion having untold millions of members demanding the beheading of western infidels? Shall the People of America grant safe haven to those who cheerfully work for the day Israel, the United States and all other non-Islamic states are finally eradicated off the face of the earth?

“These bothersome questions are not ones of religious rights, but rather of the will of the people. Will the people tolerate everything? Will ‘blanket tolerance’ be the downfall of the Judaic/Christian basis of the American society?”

Via LoonWatch