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The only man who can stop the mosque madness
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| 8/2/10
| Blake Hounshell
Posted on 08/12/2010 8:18:43 AM PDT by detritus
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A rare sign of former president Bush getting some deserved respect.
I'm not sure he's interested in establishing any sort of post-Presidential legacy. It would be interesting, if only to watch some liberal heads explode....
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:18:48 AM PDT
by
detritus
To: detritus
If they were “Moderate Muslims” they wouldn’t be trying to build a mosque near ground zero and they wouldn’t name it after a former Muslim conquest of the west.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:23:05 AM PDT
by
NavVet
("You Lie!")
To: detritus
The only thing that keeps these people from extinction is oil.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:23:48 AM PDT
by
boomop1
To: detritus
Let them build it. It will be a bomb magnet. We need one of those in New York.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:23:52 AM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: detritus
What's particularly tragic about all this is that the people behind the so-called Ground Zero mosque, the Cordoba Initiative, are precisely the moderate Muslims that everyone recognizes are an important bulwark against extremism. When you have to base your argument on a lie, you automatically lose the debate.
It is clear by this statement that this author knows utterly nothing at all about this topic and is merely regurgitating his PC ideological dogma.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:24:12 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
(The problem with Socialism is eventually you run our of other peoples money. Lady Thatcher)
To: detritus
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:26:26 AM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: detritus
Mass protest at Ground Zero on 9/11. Wonder where our modern day Michelle Antoinette will hide out this year?
She has yet to spend one minute there on 9/11.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:28:38 AM PDT
by
dforest
To: detritus
C’mon, their heads are exploding already!
The are running twice the unemployment (and thats understating it) of the Bush years.
They love to use the line of the mess we inherited...they inherited half the unemployment of today.
This speaks loudly by itself.
To: MNJohnnie
Has anyone heard anything from our President as to how he feels about this mosque? I don’t believe I have. I don’t think that any past President would allow this mosque to go forward. I guess when you have a muslim for a President, he will support them all day long without regard for what the people of this country want. He’s going to push the people of this country to far one of these days and all hell is going to break lose.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:32:21 AM PDT
by
RC2
(Remember who we are. "I am America")
To: detritus
I do not entirely buy in to this argument: He asks,
Why now, nearly a decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has anti-Muslim sentiment on the right gotten so virulent?
His answer is that George W. Bush has not spoken out. But he almost ignores the nearly constant provocation by Muslims here and and abroad, the unmitigated gall with which they operate in our country and abroad, their demands, their reluctance to accept the American Rule of Law and insistence on pushing Shariah, their subjugation and objectification of women, the honor killings on American and Canadian soil and elsewhere, their disrespect for the victims of 9/11 and their cheering of those deaths, their loyalty to foreign countries that happen to be Muslim, the tendency of their young people and their recruits to Islamic terror... I could go on, but you get the point. American anti-Muslim sentiment is a result of the actions and attitudes of Muslims. And opposition to the mosque at Ground Zero is a natural and self-preserving response to the Muslims' constant pressure on the American people and their society. I, too, wish he would speak out. Bu I don't know what George Bush could do to change the the rest of it.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:33:52 AM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: RC2
how, considering the 1st amendment and limits on federal authority in these local matters, would the President stop the building of a mosque in NY?
It simply would be unconstitutional. However ridiculous this mosque is, the government has no right to stop it’s construction anymore than they could prevent a Church from being built or arrest people for being Catholic.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:37:24 AM PDT
by
ChurtleDawg
(voting only encourages them)
To: NavVet
True enough. I never had much use for GWB’s domestic policies and his characterization of Islam as a religion of peace was absurd...but he would destroy any respect he still had among conservatives if he opened his mouth on this issue unless he was opposed to the building of this mosque...in other words, George, better shut the hell up about this!
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:38:05 AM PDT
by
mick
(Central Banker Capitalism is NOT Free Enterprise)
To: detritus
But with Dubya now offstage, there are no conservatives left of stature//////
Dubya a conservative?
I guess he might appear that way to a leftist America hater.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:40:01 AM PDT
by
Ceebass
To: Candor7
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:41:05 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
This article is based on a BIG LIE. There is a tape of the iman behind this project being interviewed by broadcast journalist Ed Bradley in the days immediately following 911. The iman said America had brought on the terrorist attack by its actions in the world. Presented as an explanation for the attacks, it was in fact a justification for them, rather like Zero pastor's remarks that “the chickens had come home to roost.”
The people behind this project are not moderates, but Islamic triumphalists. The use of “Cordoba” is instructive: the Muslims want that city back, want to replace its Christian cathedral with a mosque. Building mosques on the scenes of their triumphs is what Muslims do. For them—on 912 we saw films of them dancing with joy in the streets of their filth-strewn cities—911 was a great victory.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:41:29 AM PDT
by
Godwin1
To: detritus
What's particularly tragic about all this is that the people behind the so-called Ground Zero mosque, the Cordoba Initiative, are precisely the moderate Muslims that everyone recognizes are an important bulwark against extremism...
Islam is a political entity wrapped in a shroud of religion. U.S. muslims are duty bound to see to it that islam is spread throughout this country (and the world) and will not rest until they control the White House and we are governed by sharia. Even moderate muslims know this, but they won't admit to it publicly.
If we value our way of life and the Constitution, we will have to recognize that this is nothing less than an attack upon our very form of government, and should be recognized and dealt with as such.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:43:25 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Never trust anyone who points their rear end at God while praying.)
To: detritus
The only man who can stop the mosque madness
A demolitions expert?
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:43:28 AM PDT
by
crosshairs
(Celebrate diversity. Own a variety of firearms.)
To: himno hero
They can fudge the numbers all they want....but I'm guessing the true number of unemployed will be assessing the reality of “Change” and vote accordingly
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:44:02 AM PDT
by
M-cubed
To: crosshairs
A REDNECK demolitions expert!
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:46:47 AM PDT
by
Fighting Irish
("I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude." Thomas Jefferson)
To: detritus
Bush is holding hands with the Saudis. Don’t look for him to do anything about a project they are partially funding.
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posted on
08/12/2010 8:47:21 AM PDT
by
whence911
(Here illegally? Go home. Get in line!)
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