Posted on 08/23/2010 10:06:12 AM PDT by Signalman
A lot more voters are paying attention to the plans to build a mosque near the Ground Zero site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, and they don’t like the idea.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 85% of U.S. voters say they are now following news stories about the mosque planned near Ground Zero. That’s a 34-point jump from a month ago when only 51% said they were following the story.
The new finding includes 58% who are following the story very closely, up from 22% in mid-July.
Now 62% oppose the building of a mosque near where the World Trade Center stood in Lower Manhattan, compared to 54% in the previous survey. Twenty-five percent (25%) favor allowing the mosque to go ahead, and 13% more are not sure.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of the Political Class, however, favor building the mosque near Ground Zero. Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Mainstream voters are opposed.
Since the July survey, the local New York City zoning debate over the planned 13-story Cordoba mosque has escalated into a national controversy. It has even been addressed by President Obama, who supports the building of the mosque in the name of religious tolerance. Opponents of the project, including many who lost loved ones in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, see the mosque as a deliberate provocation that dishonors the memories of the 3,000 people who died that day.
The new finding includes 58% who are following the story very closely, up from 22% in mid-July.
Now 62% oppose the building of a mosque near where the World Trade Center stood in Lower Manhattan, compared to 54% in the previous survey. Twenty-five percent (25%) favor allowing the mosque to go ahead, and 13% more are not sure.
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According to the MSM, 62% of this country can now be classified as far-right.
Way to go Obama!....You lit the fuse on this one and took a vacation?.....Smooth move, Ex-lax!
He seems to gain his powers from division and anger. This is exactly what he wants.
GOOD! The chief imam caused this with his stupid statements favoring the mosk! I love it when they step in the mess they made!
I will post this on every mosque thread I encounter.
This is what they refer to as a victory mosque...it is what they build when they believe they have pummeled their enemy. It will be viewed as a western mecca...muslims from around the world will journey there on every 9/11 to celebrate. It must be stopped!
I think we should start circulating a petition after Friday services at all the mosques calling for the powers that be to allow a synagogue and a catholic church across the street from the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
I’d love to see THAT film.
Good shot, Mr. President!!
That muslim/communist dictator who slithered into our White House is doing everything he can do to start rioting in the streets. He NEEDS it to do what he plans to do and that is to shut our country down.
We can expect more and more of this before the election he wants to ‘delay’ because of unrest.
We can’t fall for this outrage by being violent or we play right into the hands of this Muslim/Communist plan.
We need to keep our powder dry, our time will come.
If Imam Obama and the political class want unrest and insurrection, delaying or suspending the November elections will surely do it.
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