Whatever happened, his about-face in exchange for nothing relegates him to the dustbin of history.
The answer lies in two places...”Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf unashamedly told CNN that relocating the Ground Zero Mosque will proximately cause havoc: “The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack. But if you don’t do this right, anger will explode in the Muslim world.” He predicted that “the reaction could be more furious than the eruption of violence following the 2005 publication of Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad... Our national security now hinges on how we negotiate this.[emphasis supplied].” Full story at: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/if_you_can_blackmail_yale_why.html
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.....ever wonder why zero is popular with the muslims?
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