Posted on 08/09/2010 10:13:19 AM PDT by La Lydia
This went way under the radar more than three weeks ago, but Rudy Giuliani made what, as best as I can tell, were his first public comments about the planned mosque near ground zero on the Jeff Katz show on radio...He takes a very hard line, including saying that "decent Muslims" will not be offended by the opposition because they want peace as much as others do. I had been struck by how nonvisible Giuliani, who is generally known as the face of Ground Zero, had been on this issue. (A nexis search under his name, Ground Zero and mosque revealed no TV transcripts for the past month).
Here are as much of the quotes as I was able to cull from the temperamental audio...
"It sends a particularly bad message, particularly (because) of the background of the imam who is supporting this. This is an Imam who has supported radical causes, who has not been forthright in condemning Islamic (terrorism) and the worst instincts that that brings about.
"So it not only is exactly the wrong place, right at Ground Zero, but it's a mosque supported by an imam who has a record of support for causes that were sympathetic with terrorism. Come on! We're gonna allow that at Ground Zero?
"This is a desecration," he added. "Nobody would allow something like that at Pearl Harbor. Let's have some respect for who died there and why they died there. Let's not put this off on some kind of politically correct theory.
"I mean, they died there because of Islamic extremist terrorism. They are our enemy, we can say that, the world will not end when we say that. And the reality is, it will not and should not insult any decent Muslim because decent Muslims should be as opposed to Islamic extremism as you and I are."
Thank you Rudy for speaking up! I’d take Guiliani as President instead of Obama in a New York minute.
Rudy would have beaten Obama, unlike McLame.
Me to. He might be RINOish, but he isn’t a Socialist and he is a supporter of the Rule of Law.
That is THEIR problem. I don't hate him and I know other posters here who do not hate him. He will always be America's mayor and remembered for being a leader in the wake of 9/11 and a leading opponent of jihad.
Given that he has come out strongly in opposition to the Ground Zero mosque, why would you start out by mentioning Rudy in a negative way, and/or apologizing for mentioning him?
That says it all about Rudy in my view and makes him fine with me!!
Because every time I mention him, I get flamed, dissed, insulted and subjected to ad hominem attacks, and I’m not the only one. And I am getting tired of it. I like him.
Well, you’re not the only one and I do understand. I think it would be great if some would admit at one time they were at least partly mistaken in attacking him so viciously. Btw, I think Fred Thompson had a lot to do with the movement vs. Rudy in 2007-2008.
As someone said above, let’s recognize a true patriot when we have one on our side. Thank you, Rudy Giuliani!!
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