WE WILL NEVER FORGET!
Posted on 08/13/2010 5:54:30 PM PDT by fabrizio
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed building a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less. "As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country," Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has riven New York and the nation. "That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances," he said. "This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable."
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WE WILL NEVER FORGET!
He really wants to go out in flames, doesn’t he? Sounds like he’s doubling down..sort of like Chavez or the Ronery One. Even Imanutjob. 18 months folks, that’s all it took.
Hope this is on video.
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The White House Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
August 11, 2010
Statement by the President on the Occasion of Ramadan
On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I want to extend our best wishes to Muslims in America and around the world. Ramadan Kareem.
Ramadan is a time when Muslims around the world reflect upon the wisdom and guidance that comes with faith, and the responsibility that human beings have to one another, and to God. This is a time when families gather, friends host iftars, and meals are shared. But Ramadan is also a time of intense devotion and reflection – a time when Muslims fast during the day and pray during the night; when Muslims provide support to others to advance opportunity and prosperity for people everywhere. For all of us must remember that the world we want to build – and the changes that we want to make – must begin in our own hearts, and our own communities.
These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings. Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality. And here in the United States, Ramadan is a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country. And today, I want to extend my best wishes to the 1.5 billion Muslims around the world – and your families and friends – as you welcome the beginning of Ramadan.
I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month. May God’s peace be upon you.
Is anyone suprised by this I am suprised it took him so long to endorse it. I Beleive Obama is a muslim and not a Christian as he says he is and have thought this well before he was elected President. I dont know many Christians who would cover up symbols for Jesus (GeorgeTown
University) when making a speech April 16th 2009
yet the guy and family doesn’t celebrate Christmas or go to church except for an anti American racist place
The why in the hell would you support anything to do with islam?
Is he that clueless of what happens when islamic cultists become the majority?
Is this something the left wants?
I can only see this hurting Obama politically ....
Is there an upside for him?
I think he is a Freemason. Can he be a Freemason and a Muslim?
Scary as hell.
No surprise here, Hussein always sides with America’s enemies.
As Rush pointed out, this isn’t a First Amendment issue.
The Constitution only grants the ability to practice religion—not the right to build a church or a mosque wherever you want. There are a lot of mosques already in NYC for the jihadists to worship in.
This is a common decency and a zoning issue, not a First Amendment one.
Hey 0bama: Go BACK to Hell where you belong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Deekhead, of course they have the right.
What they don’t have, however, is a good reason other than to rub our noses in their 9/11 success.
Muslims usually do support them.
On that sacred site no less?
Traitor is about all I can say.
I’ll be waiting to see if we’ll get such a flattering and supportive proclaimation from the Regime at the start of the Jewish High Holy Days.
I really hope that my buddy, who we believe was incinerated into dust on the 104th floor of the North Tower, and all the other poor souls who lost their lives on 9/11 haunt this POS for the rest of his stinking life!
FUBO!! A political ditch was just dug.
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