Posted on 08/28/2011 10:47:05 AM PDT by opentalk
This guy puts the fruit in fruitcake. Michael Bloomberg shamed those who oppose the Ground Zero Victory Mosque and told a Ramadan audience this week, “We are all Muslims.”
CNN reported:
We are now in the Islamic holy month of fasting called Ramadan, and Bloomberg hosted last night an annual iftar, or fast-breaking dinner, at Gracie Mansion.
In his his remarks, Bloomberg, who has previously supported the Park51 project in the name of both property rights and religious freedom, once again spoke truth to fear and hatred. He admitted that “there are people of good will on both sides of the debate.” He acknowledged that the World Trade Center site is “hallowed ground.” And he observed that “there are people of every faith–including, perhaps, some in this room–who are hoping that a compromise will end the debate.”
“But it won’t,” he said.
The community center can and must be built at the Park51 site, he said. Anything less would “compromise our commitment to fighting terror with freedom.”
During his remarks, Bloomberg welcomed Talat Hamdani, whose son, Salman Hamdani, a paramedic and Ne York City Police Department cadet, died on 9/11. He also welcomed Sakibeh and Asaad Mustafa, whose children, he said, “have served our country overseas.”
Bloomberg brought home the point that the propaganda war now being waged on Islam in America threatens to undercut our counterinsurgency battle for “hearts and minds” in Iraq and Afghanistan. “If we do not practice here at home what we preach abroad–if we do not lead by example–we undermine our soldiers,” he said. “We undermine our foreign policy objectives. And we undermine our national security.”
Bloomberg ended his talk by quoting some words from the embattled Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf:
At an interfaith memorial service for the martyred journalist Daniel Pearl, Imam Rauf said, ‘If to be a Jew means to say with all one's heart, mind, and soul: Shma` Yisrael, Adonai Elohenu Adonai Ehad; Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One, not only today I am a Jew, I have always been one. If to be a Christian is to love the Lord our God with all of my heart, mind and soul, and to love for my fellow human being what I love for myself, then not only am I a Christian, but I have always been one.'“In that spirit,” Bloomberg concluded, in words that echoed John F. Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, “let me declare that we in New York are Jews and Christians and Muslims, and we always have been.
Allahu Akbar.
That’s one serious a-hole, right there.
When his term is up, there will be a slaughterhouse of votes against him.
Of course, this means that a whacko dem will take over from another whacko dem.
I'm sure that went over well with all present Muslims....NOT!!!
Hurl time!
What a fool .... useful idiot isn’t even a good description of this guy ... how bout sell-out
Is this guy taking their money?
I hope someone runs this in a ad against him ...
Pandering for votes. I hope he is defeated next round in a landslide.
It is not governments' job or place to be promoting this. Bloomberg is ignoring what the citizens of NY want and is becoming an advocate for the Mosque.
from a related article
Clearly Mayor Bloomberg has sold his soul to sharia financial interests in Malaysia and Dubai and has sold out New Yorkers and all Americans link
Well it is simple he is with them!
Bloomberg must have a mouse in his pocket. He’s sure as hell isn’t speaking for ALL Americans. Sorry Mikey, I’m no damn muzzie and never will be.
All the politicians’ muslim ass-kissing doesn’t impress them.
You got that right, right there!
Bloomberg Professional® service executives have announced the launch of a Bloomberg Islamic Finance Platform (ISLM) in cooperation with the Association of Islamic Banking Institutions Malaysia (AIBIM), the launch of a Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) sukuk index to provide a benchmark for MYR sovereign sukuk investments. "
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a very public figure in Malaysia. His father founded an Islamic Center where the Cordoba Initiative has an office, and where he publishes Islamic supremacist op-eds on world news concerning Islam.
Mayor Doomberg's new Islamic financial platform was clearly being set up during the Ground Zero mosque controversy last year.
Bloomberg launches Islamic Finance Platform
The new Bloomberg ISLM platform has resources for investing in fixed income, equities and money markets that comply with Shariah..
Sorry Michael you Bloomberg idiot; muslims are the sworn enemies of freedom.
You are not going to win the war on terror against muslim fundamentalism by preaching freedom and giving in to their demands.
Muslims see this as weakness and rightly so since you are surrendering our cultural norms to their aggression.
Muslim culture only respects strength and only bargain with those that show strength.
The only way to win peace with Muslims is to defeat them totally, this has been demonstrated in Israel over the last thirty years. Every entreaty that the Israelis have made for peace with the local Arab Muslims has only lead to increased violence.
The only avenue for peace with the Muslim fundamentalist is the grave; theirs or ours.
I am sickened when I hear any politician make such untruthful statements.
I am a Christian and I do not now, nor will I ever, support the Muslim religion. Muslims LOVE death and Christians LOVE life! The two are diametrically opposed to each other.
“... this means that a whacko dem will take over from another whacko dem.”
Remember ..?? That’s what people said when Christie got in the race - “he can never win”.
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