Glenn Beck, Park51 and the politics of hallowed ground

"Do not come any closer," God told Moses at the burning bush. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." Sometimes it seems like everyone in American politics is playing God. For the past few weeks, it's been the Islamophobic right, busy declaring that lower Manhattan (and maybe Midtown too!) is holy ground, upon which Muslim shoes must not tread. (Not that they wear shoes in the mosque.) Now, it's us on the left, outraged as we are at the appropriation of the Washington Mall -- and the footsteps of the canonized Martin Luther King -- by Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

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