The argument that people’s feelings are still raw after the 9/11 attacks only makes sense if the group behind the community center was al Qaeda. To equate these moderate Muslims with that horrific act is pure bigotry, a bigotry that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and former Gov. Howard Dean sadly signed on to.

President Obama waded into the fray with a lukewarm defense of religious freedom. For that, Rush Limbaugh dubbed him “Imam Hussein Obama.”

But he meant it in a nice way.