Via the Corner, Anti-war Republican Ron Paul has issued a statement saying that the opposition to the Ground Zero mosque “is all about hate and Islamaphobia.”
According to Paul, opposition to the mosque is driven by “the neo-conservatives who demand continual war in the Middle East and Central Asia and are compelled to constantly justify it. They never miss a chance to use hatred toward Muslims to rally support for the ill conceived preventative wars.” Paul says:
Instead, we hear lip service given to the property rights position while demanding that the need to be “sensitive” requires an all-out assault on the building of a mosque, several blocks from “ground zero.”
Ron’s son Rand, currently a GOP Senate candidate in Kentucky, has come out against the mosque:
So, is Rand Paul just another neocon stooge to his father?
