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Ground Zero mosque Imam blames Sarah Palin for 'growing Islamophobia'
Telegraph UK ^ | 9/12/2010 | Telegraph UK

Posted on 09/12/2010 6:03:11 PM PDT by opentalk

The Muslim cleric behind plans to build a mosque close to the Ground Zero site has blamed politicians such as Sarah Palin for fuelling a "growing Islamophobia" that led to the burning of Korans on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

The Reverend Terry Jones abandoned his "international burn a Koran day" in Gainesville, Florida on Saturday but there were isolated instances in Tennessee and New York of the Muslim holy book being set alight.

"What has happened is that..certain politicians decided that this project would be very useful for their political ambitions," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said, adding that this had prompted a "growing Islamophobia" in the US.

Imam Rauf's proposal for an Islamic Centre, containing a mosque, two blocks from the site of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre, has become embroiled in controversy.

Mrs Palin was the first major national figure to get involved in what had been a localised dispute when she sent a Twitter message in July stating: "Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing."

Imam Rauf said Mrs Palin's intervention had been "disingenuous" and played a part of the issue being "hijacked by the radicals" over the summer.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: opentalk

Keep talking moron.


61 posted on 09/12/2010 7:00:34 PM PDT by DB
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To: GinaLolaB

62 posted on 09/12/2010 7:02:10 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: opentalk

What? Not “Bush’s fault!”?


63 posted on 09/12/2010 7:02:27 PM PDT by clintonh8r ("Let them eat lobster cake." Michelle Antoinette, vacation #6.)
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To: All
I think you all are missing something...

I think that the Imam Ralf ran out of goats, and got `friendly` with a moose, and became sympathetic to the moose's cause. And we KNOW what kind of reputation Sarah P. has in the moose community...

Sorry... I was just brainstorming...
64 posted on 09/12/2010 7:02:59 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: RaceBannon
Free speech is threatened in Florida, and a new twist is happening in New York City, something that Israel has seen does not work, and that is LAND FOR PEACE.

The Ground Zero mosque is about LAND FOR PEACE. If we give islam the land to make a mosque, there will be peace. If we do not give islam the land, there will be violence.

This needed to be said. The truth is ugly.

65 posted on 09/12/2010 7:04:52 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: opentalk

He is acting like people would not be against a mosque on Ground Zero without a politician’s input. Like we are too stupid to see what the purpose of the darn thing is symbolically on our own.


66 posted on 09/12/2010 7:04:53 PM PDT by ministry of silly full stop (obama: grand poohbah of the ministry of silly)
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To: opentalk

islam itself is responsible for any islamophobia.


67 posted on 09/12/2010 7:05:33 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: opentalk

Oh please..I blame the Imam for his In Your Face decision.


68 posted on 09/12/2010 7:08:45 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military Men And Women)
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To: ought-six

I still think the FBI should check to see if osama bin laden has had face surgery. This iman spews the same vile as bin laden.


69 posted on 09/12/2010 7:08:54 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform)
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To: opentalk

Now we are getting to the heart of the matter. The Radical Muslims want to continue to have Obama in office because they know they are winning the internal civil war in this country with Obama doing their work.

Palin is against radical Islam. The Radical Islam that took down the Twin Towers. They would love to make sure Palin doesn’t have a chance at seeing the Oval office in 2012.


70 posted on 09/12/2010 7:09:54 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: opentalk

On another thread, ME Muslims are blaming ‘the Joos” for wanting to construct a mosque that will ‘make muslims look bad’... Really, they’ll blame ANYONE but themselves...


71 posted on 09/12/2010 7:10:38 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/the_power_of_images_turned_aga.html)
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To: opentalk

Another reason to support Sarah Palin in 2012.


72 posted on 09/12/2010 7:14:08 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (Sometimes the road less traveled.... is less traveled for a reason.)
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To: ministry of silly full stop

He seems like another elitist, even with most of the country opposed to this mosque, they are dismissed as irrelevant.


73 posted on 09/12/2010 7:14:58 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

Here’s where they blame the ‘Joos’...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2587911/posts


74 posted on 09/12/2010 7:17:14 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/the_power_of_images_turned_aga.html)
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To: opentalk

What no Rush Limbaugh??? Imam Obama, say something!


75 posted on 09/12/2010 7:17:55 PM PDT by eaglestar
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To: paulycy; no-to-illegals
Yep, that thing is so ugly he reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man" He looks like the Kanamet.

The Kanamits, a race of aliens, land on Earth and promise to be helpful to the cause of humanity. The Kanamit book had a seemingly innocuous title, To Serve Man. Everything takes a turn for the worse, however, when Pat, a code-breaker, discovers the Kanamits' true intentions. She shouts the agonized warning to Chambers, who is about to climb the Kanamit spaceship's boarding stairs: "Mr. Chambers, don't get on that ship! The book... To Serve Man. It... it's a cookbook!”

76 posted on 09/12/2010 7:21:34 PM PDT by GinaLolaB
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To: Aria

What I want to know is why they care if a mosque is built in the US if they think so little of our country that they scream ‘death to America’.

It is none of their beeswax if they are not American citizens. Just like I am not losing sleep over whether there is a giant westernized theater complex where they are.

They are going to be crazy no matter what so I don’t think we should let them scare us. Let them gnash their teeth and wail they will just tire themselves out and hopefully realize that there is no reason they should worry about nyc real estate from overseas.


77 posted on 09/12/2010 7:26:17 PM PDT by ministry of silly full stop (obama: grand poohbah of the ministry of silly)
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To: opentalk

Hey Raufie baby:

Remember, on 9/11, it was Islamists who perpetrated the atrocities, not the Amish, Shintoists, Buddhists or Jews.

The only “Palin” I want right now is for us to do to Islamic jihadists what Vlad the Impaler did to them way back then. “Im-Palin” on large stakes and let them rot.

Put that in your burqua and smoke it!


78 posted on 09/12/2010 7:31:38 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: opentalk

Another reason to vote for Sarah.


79 posted on 09/12/2010 7:34:52 PM PDT by devere
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To: opentalk; bboop

Maybe he’s positioning for a run as Obozo’s running mate?


80 posted on 09/12/2010 7:36:04 PM PDT by Canedawg (...still not digging this tyranny thing.)
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