Why they ever gave it to him in the first place is the question for the ages. Now in a snit, and an obvious attempt to shore up his next to nothing ratings on his CNN show, Fareed Zakaria has given back his ADL Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize he got in 2005. The ADL response here.

“I hope you have read our statement on the proposed Islamic Center at Ground Zero and, more importantly, understand our position. We did not oppose the right for an Islamic Center or a mosque to be built. What we did was to make an appeal based solely on the issues of location and sensitivity. If the stated goal was to advance reconciliation and understanding, we believe taking into consideration the feelings of many victims and their families, of first responders and many New Yorkers, who are not bigots but still feel the pain of 9/11, would go a long way to achieving that reconciliation.”

Zakaria’s so-called “moderate Islam” position is a joke, one which which was called by this blogger in 2009 which he pressured Yale to drop the publishing of Mohammed cartoons citing “violence” and “sensitivity”.

Here he is telling a audience that they should “get over their fear of terrorism”.