Someone is buying these t-shirts.
Seems the muslims who get upset about the talk of this mosque should be upset about those who see Bin Laden as a hero AND SPEAK OUT.
Posted on 08/25/2010 1:11:05 PM PDT by dselig
(AllHipHop News) Def Jam co-founder/Hip-Hop mogul Russell Simmons has thrown in his support for a controversial mosque being built near the site of the 9/11 terror attack in Manhattan in 2001.
Simmons has placed a series of religious symbols on the panes of his Liberty St. penthouse, which spells out the word "Co-Exist."
Other messages in the windows of Simmons' home include "It's the Law" and "USA is Free."
The $100 million mosque, which is just two blocks away from ground zero, has been a lighting rod for controversy.
"This is compelling for Russell because he lives here and he's always involved with issues of people getting along," Simmons' associate Glen Friedman told the New York Post.
Simmons' Liberty St. pad was one of several building destroyed and rebuilt after the 9-11 disaster.
"If your blaming Muslims for the attack on 9/11 then you need to change your mind," Simmons said about the controversy surrounding the mosque. Did we blame Christians for the first world trade attack? It creates a cycle of negativity."
Manhattan's community board voted 29-1 in favor of the mosque, which is being built by the Cordoba Intiative.
(Excerpt) Read more at allhiphop.com ...
Don’t know who he is and don’t care what he thinks.
Russell Simmons on CNN: Christians Bombed the WTC in 1993?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/08/19/russell-simmons-cnn-christians-bombed-wtc-1993
By Matthew Balan (Bio | Archive)
Thu, 08/19/2010 - 11:58 ET
[Update; Thursday, 7:10 pm Eastern: Simmons admitted his error about the ‘93 World Trade Center bombing on his Twitter account: “Made critical error on CNN last nite. Was thinking of last major terrorist attack on US soil in OKC by McVeigh & mispoke”]
“If you’re blaming Muslims for the attack on 9/11, then you need to change your mind. We didn’t- did we blame Christians at the first World Trade attack? We didn’t” - R. Simmons
He's a moron pontificating about things he knows nothing about. He's just double the number of muslims in the world with one numerical error.
And the Pravda Media smiles.
He does? Why you surprise me!!!
Hey man Mo sez camel urine is good for you..bust a move bro..
Why the media goes to “celebrity” idiots and asks for their opinion. Because they are guaranteed to parrot the official leftist party line.
Russell Simmons is good buddies with the developer of the Mosque. Been following them both on Twitter.
http://twitter.com/SharifElGamal
@UncleRUSH You are a special and beautiful soul 10:09 PM Aug 23rd via web in reply to UncleRUSH
“Uncle Rush” is Russell Simmons.
Sharif ElGamal is the developer of the site.
Someone is buying these t-shirts.
Seems the muslims who get upset about the talk of this mosque should be upset about those who see Bin Laden as a hero AND SPEAK OUT.
What did Colonel Tom Parker say about the Rosenbergs?
In the immortal words of Ace Ventura (Pet Detective) - “Well alrighty then”!
People like Simmons love muslims a heck of a lot more than they love America.
Russell Simmons is a middle-aged ‘hip-hop’ entrepreneur who parlayed rap music with it’s lewd, violent lyrics, into a financial empire, so naturally he assumes that his stupid opinions supporting the triumphal mega-mosque planned to be built close to the site of the former World Trade Center, demolished by a Islamic terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, are important. They aren’t but he spews the leftist line regarding the Ground Zero mosque (the ‘religious freedom’ meme) so the media give him full exposure and we have to answer his nonsense, even if only via internet message boards. Russel Simmons is wrong. There, I said it. Done, now.
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