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What Fox has wrought: Anti-Park51 protests full of right-wing hate

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Previous Park51 protests also featured inflammatory imagery and rhetoric

Protest sign: "Building a Mosque at Ground Zero is Like Building a memorial to Hitler at Auschwitz." The August 2 broadcast of Fox News' Happening Now featured footage of a recent protest against Park51, which included a sign that read, "Building a Mosque at Ground Zero is Like Building a memorial to Hitler at Auschwitz." From Happening Now:

Protest sign: "Proud to be an Islamophobe." Happening Now also showed footage of an anti-Park 51 protestor which read, "Jesus died to save you Allah wants you to kill for him! Proud to be an Islamophobe." From Happening Now:

Protest sign: "Islam = Hate"; "Islam = terrorist"; "Islam = Killing." Eye on the World blog posted a "photo report" from Pam Geller's June 6 Park51 protest. Geller linked to the "photo report" in a blog post touting her protest. From Eye on the World:

Protest sign invokes Nazis, calls Islam "the Enemy." From Eye on the World's "photo report":

Protest sign: "Mosques Breed Radical Islam...Radical Islam Breeds Terrorists." From Eye of the World:

Protests sign compare mosque to a toilet, asks, "Do you want this built on Ground Zero? I don't!!!!!" From Eye of the World's complete "anti-mosque protest" photo gallery:

Protest sign: "Islam Kills." From Eye of the World's complete "anti-mosque protest" photo gallery:


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