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Bloomberg defends Ground Zero mosque as freedom-of-faith issue
nypost.com ^ | May 29, 2010 | DAVID SEIFMAN

Posted on 05/29/2010 10:23:50 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

In his fiercest defense yet of the mosque proposed near Ground Zero, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday that it must be allowed to proceed because the government "shouldn't be in the business of picking" one religion over another.

"I think it's fair to say if somebody was going to try, on that piece of property, to build a church or a synagogue, nobody would be yelling and screaming," the mayor said.

"And the fact of the matter is that Muslims have a right to do it, too."

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KEYWORDS: 911; cordoba; cordobagroup; cordobainitiative; cordobaproject; groundzeromosque; islam; newyork; ny; september112001; stealthjihad
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1 posted on 05/29/2010 10:23:50 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

You’ve gotta be shitting me.


2 posted on 05/29/2010 10:26:02 AM PDT by library user
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Maybe the muslims will invite the jewish Bloomie to give the opening speech there in the new mosque, as a new synagogue or Christian church would have done.


3 posted on 05/29/2010 10:26:12 AM PDT by silverleaf
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To: Free ThinkerNY

But not a transfat or salt zone.


4 posted on 05/29/2010 10:28:13 AM PDT by j.argese (Liberal thought process = oxymoron)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Disgusting.


5 posted on 05/29/2010 10:28:24 AM PDT by chris37
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The day the Saudis allow a Christian church, or a Jewish synagogue to be built in Riyadh, I’ll support a mosque at ground zero.


6 posted on 05/29/2010 10:29:12 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Someone is making the assumption it is a religion of faith, not a religion of hate.

The Koran mandates violence against non believers, therefore it is hate literature. The “politically correct” need to do more homework and amend their views accordingly.


7 posted on 05/29/2010 10:29:33 AM PDT by himno hero
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The whole world has gone freekin nuts!
8 posted on 05/29/2010 10:31:00 AM PDT by jaz.357 (NO MSG)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Concerned New Yorkers need to start tossing pig blood and fat at that site.


9 posted on 05/29/2010 10:31:31 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; library user
C'mon folks! This is New York! Folks are rather blase about this sort of thing. They'll tolerate any religion as long as said religious group doesn't push prayer in schools or protest the gay pride parade.

If you think NYC is filled with flag waving patriots, you are smoking some of eastern Kentucky's finest.

10 posted on 05/29/2010 10:31:36 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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You’ve gotta be shitting me.

Interesting issue. I am against the mosque being built but I don't want government picking which churches can be built and which cannot and where they can and cannot build. That is why our founding fathers were so strong on freedom of religion. They saw what happened in England.

11 posted on 05/29/2010 10:32:33 AM PDT by GreenStreak
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Assh*le = Bloomberg

Hey Mike, how about the opening date scheduled for 9/11/11?


12 posted on 05/29/2010 10:33:16 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember ("Subtlety is not going to win this fight": NJ Governor Chris Christie)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“”to build a church or a synagogue””

AND what Christian church or Synagogue supports flying planes full of passengers and crew members into buildings full of workers?


13 posted on 05/29/2010 10:33:34 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Yeah! And I see it as freedom for "in your eye" political maneuvering. Too bad Christians do not have the freedom they founded this country for.

vaudine

14 posted on 05/29/2010 10:33:36 AM PDT by vaudine (,,)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Ok Bloomberg, let’s keep it real simple - no churches, mosques, synogogues, or any other new religious institution can be built near ground zero. They can all get over it.


15 posted on 05/29/2010 10:34:33 AM PDT by nevs911
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama is to Kenya as Bloomberg is to Medford Massachusetts.

Neither one is a natural born citizen of what they
purport to represent.


16 posted on 05/29/2010 10:34:43 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States Â… shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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Bloomberg is a clown.Freedom of faith issue my rearend.These members of Islam look at forcibly converting every other religion to Islam.

Not that I’m overly religious,But where is our freedom to celebrate our faith?It’s being kicked out of the Public Sphere everywhere in the United States.

17 posted on 05/29/2010 10:34:44 AM PDT by puppypusher
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If they tried to build a church or synagogue on that site, you dare tootling that the ACLU would be screaming bloody murder. IAC, Bloomberger is already giving Islam a priviliged place.


18 posted on 05/29/2010 10:34:58 AM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: Diogenesis

My illustrious Masshole Mayor had Bermuda as his primary residence before he decided to run for office. He would have done us all a favor by running for Mayor of Hamilton instead.


19 posted on 05/29/2010 10:36:16 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
There are cities in which I don't care about anymore. I think I'll begin to care again soon but not in the same way.

20 posted on 05/29/2010 10:36:29 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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