Posted on 08/15/2010 3:23:47 PM PDT by tobyhill
Republicans attacked President Barack Obama on Sunday for his comments on a controversial plan to build a Muslim cultural center in New York, saying he was "disconnected" from the nation in an election year.
Obama waded into the debate on Friday when he appeared to offer his backing for the center called Cordoba House to be built two blocks from the "Ground Zero" site of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City.
On Saturday, seeking to clarify his position, Obama said he supported the right of Muslims to build the center but would not comment on the "wisdom" of deciding its location in Lower Manhattan.
Prominent Republicans have opposed the proposed site of the center, saying it was insensitive and reopened the wounds of the attacks. On Sunday, several criticized Obama for what they said was his support of the center's construction and subsequent waffling on the issue.
"This is not about freedom of religion because we all respect the right of anyone to worship according to the dictates of their conscience ... but I do think it's unwise to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as the result of a terrorist attack," Texas Republican John Cornyn said on the "Fox News Sunday" program.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Yes it is a mosque, it is the “Barack Hussein Obama Mosque” in lower Manhattan.
This is not about religious freedom, there are already mosques in downtown Manhattan. This is about sensitivity to the surviving victims of 9/11 and who decides how this sacred spot will be commemorated, by Americans, or by foreign born nationals, defenders of Hamas, who are using Saudi money to build this unwanted “shrine”. It is more than a little presumptuous of these Muslims to demand that we accept their shrine for American victims when the terrorists who did this acted in the name of the very same Islam; why is it so difficult to ask for a little sensitivity from our Muslim brothers to stop accusing our victims of bigotry and intolerance and perhaps show some toleration of their own.
I find it repulsive to be lectured about toleration from Islamist propagandists. When one million Christians in Saudi Arabia cannot publicly practice their religion under pain of flogging and jail, I am dumbfounded by the hypocrisy. When they stone women for adultery, mutilate females, engage in honor killings, stab film makers to death, throw homosexuals off buildings, treat women like animals, refuse to educate girls and sell non Muslim black Africans into slavery - I am confused, where is the “brotherhood”, where is the gentleness of Islam these proponents tell us about. Where are their cultural center shrines for those victims? Can they clean their own house before they demand to clean ours? Go to Saudi Arabia and with this Hamas money begin to build churches for the foreign born Christians who are working there – do that and we will start to believe you are serious about “brotherhood”.
I am also tired of the excuse of “don’t lump all Muslims together” which is very convenient when it is used to excuse the wanton murder of Christians, Jews and Hindus in a number of countries. By the time they are finished excluding all the “bad” Muslims, there may be none left to wallow in moderation. The fact remains, the so-called unicorn-like ‘moderate’ Muslim is afraid to speak out against these heinous crimes perpetuated in the name of Islam, and that collective cowardice forces them to forfeit the high moral ground in calling the living victims of 9/11 intolerant bigots. They have yet to earn the right to say anything about our alleged intolerance when they have practiced bigoted murder in every country they reside, and they remain silent.
It is so much easier for their purposes to attack the “intolerant and bigoted” West than it is to look inward at their own hideous practices and attempt to change that ocean of toxic waste..
From within their mosques they have planned the violent overthrown of their host nations. From Finsbury in England, to Hamburg to the Al Farooq Mosque in Brooklyn to the mosque in Jersey City where the first World Trade Center bombing was conceived – unfortunately they will continue to be places where violent overthrow is conceived and carried out. We have had the Lackawanna Six, the Fort Dix murder attempt, the Ft. Hood Shootings, the Christmas Day jetliner bombing that almost was, the Times Square bombing that almost was, the Detroit Sleeper Cell with the planned attack on Disney Land, and the bombings in the London Underground and Spain. Islam doesn’t seem to be ‘moderating’ much, and we must live with a violent and arrogant Islam in our midst, while we are lectured by their so-called moderates who don’t have the guts to shout their murderous radicals down. Most likely because the moderates are so greatly outnumbered.
Islam can only cure itself, and the radicals are in complete control, so with the combination of the paucity of moderates, their general cowardice and their utter futility in making change, the West has to fight this unholy scourge alone.
Yep. This is the new media meme. Now that Zero stepped in it.
It’s no longer a mosque but a YMCA.
Why doesn’t reuters just tell us what they really think?
Whites attack Black over support for harmless religion’s YMCA.
About 70% of the public is against the construction of the mosque. They are not all Republicans.
Except in places where the Supreme Secular Court, aka Scotus, determines otherwise.
There. I fixed it.
Now it’s a “Muslim Cultural Center” heh...
Reuters, how about a “Muslim Dance and Bingo Club”
Or just come out and say it- “Islamofacism recruitment and training center”...
Appeared to support? He didn't appear to support it, he did support it. AND it isn't a "center" it is a frickin' mosque.
Someone should also address the fact of the Number of all the other Mosques in New York none are 13 stories tall.The greek Church which has NOT been given the go Ahead to rebuild on the Trade center site where it was destroyed in the attack has been told that if and when it does get permission it cannot be taller than the Memorial Tower,but the Muslims can Build 13 stories. How many buildings do you see built with 13 Stories? Do you see any elevators with 13 floors? It is Muslim Tradition to Build Mosques that tower over any other Buildings in Conquered lands in the area of Conquest. This is nothing more than a stick in our eye
“reuters” - what a cute way to spell “whore”
Young Muslims' Channeling Allah?
Young Muslim's Cursing America?
Youthful Murderers Crafting Assasinations?
How about : Republicans, Patriotic Americans oppose the building of a : Muslim karaoke honkey talk gay bar near ground zero in New York city.
The problem is with the MSM now, most of America knew just what Obama said and the meaning of his words are now they are in damamge control.
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