Ground Zero mosque Imam blames Sarah Palin for 'growing Islamophobia'

Telegraph UK ^ | 9/12/2010 | Telegraph UK

[opentalk]

The Muslim cleric behind plans to build a mosque close to the Ground Zero site has blamed politicians such as Sarah Palin for fuelling a "growing Islamophobia" that led to the burning of Korans on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

The Reverend Terry Jones abandoned his "international burn a Koran day" in Gainesville, Florida on Saturday but there were isolated instances in Tennessee and New York of the Muslim holy book being set alight.

"What has happened is that..certain politicians decided that this project would be very useful for their political ambitions," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said, adding that this had prompted a "growing Islamophobia" in the US.

Imam Rauf's proposal for an Islamic Centre, containing a mosque, two blocks from the site of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre, has become embroiled in controversy.

Mrs Palin was the first major national figure to get involved in what had been a localised dispute when she sent a Twitter message in July stating: "Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing."

Imam Rauf said Mrs Palin's intervention had been "disingenuous" and played a part of the issue being "hijacked by the radicals" over the summer.

[hattend]

Sarah Palin...the new George Bush to the lefties.

[excopconservative]

Here’s the sequence-
per Ben Smith Politico

Palin (7/18)
Gingrich (7/21)
Huckabee (8/4)
Pawlenty (8/6)
Romney (8/10) via spokesman
Obama (8/13)

She put the issue forward nationally,all the others chimed in. Obama was Johnny Come Lately.

[blam]

Why is anyone giving these pig-faced desert monkey Muslims the time of day. They only want to kill or enslave all of us.

We should be shooting every one of these bastards!

[TheThinker]

This is the same imam that said that we will get attacked if this mosque is not built.

[meyer]

I’m convinced that the entire Ground Zero mosque is a construct of the liberals. The leftwing media is trying to frame it as though the vast majority of Americans are in favor of the Moaque, while in reality, the majority don’t want it at Ground Zero.

[livius]

Interestingly, if you look at a number of polls taken on the ground zero mosque, women oppose it in stronger #s(and thus support the conservative/Republican position) than men do.

Very interesting. Maybe a little common sense or at least sense of self-preservation is kicking in.

[Vanders9]

"Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing."

I call political motive. If they think that that statement is incitement to islamophobia they have a very odd definition of it. Basically Palin is being slammed for being a conservative. Any stick will do.

[Wyatt's Torch]

How much do you want to bet that Feisal Abdul Rauf is a registered democrat?

He is playing the Dems like a Stradivarius...

[Madame Dufarge]

Unholy Alliance-Radical Islam and the American Left by David Horowitz

[Darkwolf377]

Sarah Palin

And the final puzzle piece falls into place.

The libs finally have their cover for their position on the mosque--they can't say "Bush's fault!" but they get the next best thing--"Palin's fault!" "Her rightwing rhetoric is going to cause another 9/11!" "If there's another attack, it was brought on not by Obama's not taking Islamofascism seriously, it's cuz PALIN started it!"

Olberman must be doing a jig...

[Red in Blue PA]

Does this imam blame hamas for anything?

Nope....didn’t think so.

[newfreep]

I love how Sarah hits them directly without holding back and plating RINO/PC talk.

She always can get the left wing kooks to expose themselves as the stupid socialists that they are.

See my tagline....

[Red in Blue PA]

Islamophobia is one of the fears which is not irrational.

Anyone who says it is irrational only needs to (re)see those images.

[Ron H.]

.... the issue being "hijacked by the radicals" over the summer.

No Imam Rauf, it's statements like this that outrage me and my fellow Americans and it will certainly get much much worse long before it gets better if you and your fellow American hating Islamic terrorist keep pushing us and calling anyone who defies or oppose you, haters. Go for it you moronic miscreant imbecile.

[anniegetyourgun]

"People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like building a mosque at Ground Zero." - Sarah Palin via Facebook

[xtinct]

Like Obambi, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is proving that there is NO such thing as a moderate Muslim.

Obambi's missing wedding ring during Rhamadan and staff reports that he prays all the time are telling....

[huldah1776]

There is no “phobia” brewing in America, sir. There is an education based enlightenment of the true political & judicial philosophy of the Koran spreading over our nation. Without the help of the MSM, I might add.

[knittnmom]

A phobia is an unreasonable fear. IMHO, we have every reason to fear Islam.

[hal ogen]

There is no mooslamo-phobia...more descriptively it is mooslamo-disgustia. These adherents to the 7th century are disgusting.