Bloggers credited with moving the Ground Zero Mosque controversy to front pages

Check out Gateway Pundit, here, to see how bloggers Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch) and Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs) are being credited with bringing the Ground Zero Mosque controversy and by extension Sharia Law to the forefront of American political discourse this summer.

We have referenced their excellent work many times on these pages over the last three years.   See especially our category on the Stealth Jihad, here.

Comment worth noting: you don’t know Maine

This is the second angry ‘comment of the day,’ see previous one here.   The comment below came from a woman (A.O.) professing to speak for the state of Maine on the issue of immigrants and refugees flooding into the state.

She said the following in an e-mail to me:

I recently discovered your “refugee blog”.

I live in Maine. I am here every single day. This state is dying out, if you were to count native-born Mainers, and (the lack of) American citizens moving here. We are too rural and too far away to appeal to most people aside from vacationers.

The only population growth happening here is in the immigrant and refugee communities.

Ann Cocoran, while you sit there and type your little words in Maryland, I am here living in Maine and I will tell you flat out that the majority of us are perfectly FINE with immigrants and refugees moving here. I’d wager to guess you haven’t been here, or don’t know any of the immigrants and refugees who you SLANDER on a daily basis on your little blog. Well, I DO.  M.O. (initials substituted at the request of the author), a naturalized American citizen born and raised in Somalia who recently ran for state legislature. A brilliant person who is well versed in American and Maine history and LOVES the WHOLE community here. I know he wouldn’t fit into your slanderous, bigoted diatribes, and other selected tales….. You don’t know and don’t talk about the refugee farmers growing food for their neighborhoods and for local food pantries, or any of the other immigrants and refugees contributing to our state. No, that wouldn’t fit in well with your victimhood hand-wringing cowardly anti-American blog posts.

I know my state, you don’t; your lies and fear mongering are ridiculous and transparent.

As I mentioned in my previous ‘comment worth noting’ the rage seems to be building among those who are promoting open borders.  What gives?  The only thing I can point to is that the Far Left is coming to the realization that their one great hope—the Presidency of Barack Obama—is not bringing their dreams of multicultural nirvana to fruition.

Ms. O.  please indicate specifically in which posts I am lying.   And, any folks from Maine out there who disagree with Ms O’ s assessment of the mood in Maine?

Comment worth noting: just to give you an idea of who is coming to the US

For some reason, things are getting pretty mean out there these days.   I’ve not written much at RRW lately because I’ve been busy elsewhere.  But, here is one of several comments I’m posting today and I need to mention that although not much new is being posted, our numbers of readers are on the rise.   I wonder if the rage is building in certain quarters over Obama’s failures to deliver and so certain segments of our country are fuming.

So here is lovely Somali immigrant Mina this morning (those two foul words were spelled correctly in the original, the editing is mine):

ur illegall acorcorn were da f*** did u get sumthin stupid like dat go back to dat person who told u dat s*** dat they need to shut up. ok somali ppl came here for a better future for dey kids n dem selfs ok. we leave our country because we dont have a choice its only getting worser as it is. bet u would have left yo country if der was a war n wasnt gettin better so plz ppl leave all immigrants alone dey came here for better opportunities n better lives for dem n der childrens

I assume Mina is talking about the warnings that Khadra (another Somali) has given us, here and here, where Khadra warns us about Somali intentions in North America.