Posted on 09/12/2010 6:03:11 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
He’s speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)today....nuff said.
“Ground Zero mosque Imam blames Sarah Palin for ‘growing Islamophobia’”
That confirms it. Sarah is the #1 candidate for President of the United States!
Someone needs to build a synagogue next door. We’ll see how tolerant this imam and Islam are.
Also, I commemorated the 9/11/01 attacks by buying another 250 rounds of ammo.
Rauf Mouth? (sorry, no picture handy)
so.....first of Imam...if that is your real name.
it is not Islamophobia as there is NO FEAR involved...get it straight...(and the Faggots should take notice too, we do not fear you we find your lifestyle disgusting and prefer not to have it put in our faces.....)
this is what causes our HATE AND LOATHING of islam..
that and your bogus faith's tendency to buildVICTORY MOSQUES
Completely inaccurate statement and if you muzzies want a real war not just one of these Afghanistan things just touch one hair on our Sarah.
We have plenty of nukes. How many you got?
I would hope so. But as one blogger put it, she would need a Presidential Praetorian Guard to go around and smack the DC bureaucracy into shape. Too many people in DC live their lives totally dependent on Big Government, their jobs and benefits, and they’re not about to give it up for “freedom.” Especially to the taxpayers in “flyover” country, who they think are all hicks. A presidential order comes down, and some mid-level commie stooge either ignores it or reinterprets it to suit their own agenda. Short of firing everyone and starting over (would lead to impeachment), what does one do?
“Personally, I will blow hell out of that perversion.” Warms the cockles of my heart! Thx!
I wish the charge were true. I’d like Sarah even more then.
I wonder if our natural defense mechanisms are better security then any intelligence gathering or surveillance. Maybe our instincts tell us that the Imam is not being honest and there is something that is unsettling. I had a very odd thing happen today with my 2 year nephew. I took him into a local Starbucks where there was a diverse group of people. He was fascinated by the sugar and creamers not really paying attention to anything else. The odd thing was as I filled my coffee with creamer he played with the sugar packets and then ran to my side and hid his face. He was scared as I looked up a mid-eastern man had walked in. This is a child that knows no differences in religion or races. Why did he get so fearful over a person walking into a coffee shop? Once the man walked by us, he was fine. I wonder if it was his internal instincts felt fear? Just a very odd experience.
He still trusts his God given intuition. It hasn’t been “taught” out of him yet.
Is that Barak the Magic Horse which Mohammed is riding?
He's probably not even a citizen. Of course, that would not exclude him from being a registered democrat.
Sure is. To Hell with Mohammad AND the horse he rode in on.
“News rater, anti-Palin group get govt Gulf work”
“Defenders of Wildlife and its political arm, the Defenders Action Fund, have criticized Palin, a former Alaska governor, for supporting use of low-flying airplanes to hunt wolves and other wildlife in winter.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100913/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_contracts_3
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