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.
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Keep talking moron.
What? Not “Bush’s fault!”?
The Ground Zero mosque is about LAND FOR PEACE. If we give islam the land to make a mosque, there will be peace. If we do not give islam the land, there will be violence.
This needed to be said. The truth is ugly.
He is acting like people would not be against a mosque on Ground Zero without a politician’s input. Like we are too stupid to see what the purpose of the darn thing is symbolically on our own.
islam itself is responsible for any islamophobia.
Oh please..I blame the Imam for his In Your Face decision.
I still think the FBI should check to see if osama bin laden has had face surgery. This iman spews the same vile as bin laden.
Now we are getting to the heart of the matter. The Radical Muslims want to continue to have Obama in office because they know they are winning the internal civil war in this country with Obama doing their work.
Palin is against radical Islam. The Radical Islam that took down the Twin Towers. They would love to make sure Palin doesn’t have a chance at seeing the Oval office in 2012.
On another thread, ME Muslims are blaming ‘the Joos” for wanting to construct a mosque that will ‘make muslims look bad’... Really, they’ll blame ANYONE but themselves...
Another reason to support Sarah Palin in 2012.
He seems like another elitist, even with most of the country opposed to this mosque, they are dismissed as irrelevant.
What no Rush Limbaugh??? Imam Obama, say something!
The Kanamits, a race of aliens, land on Earth and promise to be helpful to the cause of humanity. The Kanamit book had a seemingly innocuous title, To Serve Man. Everything takes a turn for the worse, however, when Pat, a code-breaker, discovers the Kanamits' true intentions. She shouts the agonized warning to Chambers, who is about to climb the Kanamit spaceship's boarding stairs: "Mr. Chambers, don't get on that ship! The book... To Serve Man. It... it's a cookbook!”
What I want to know is why they care if a mosque is built in the US if they think so little of our country that they scream ‘death to America’.
It is none of their beeswax if they are not American citizens. Just like I am not losing sleep over whether there is a giant westernized theater complex where they are.
They are going to be crazy no matter what so I don’t think we should let them scare us. Let them gnash their teeth and wail they will just tire themselves out and hopefully realize that there is no reason they should worry about nyc real estate from overseas.
Hey Raufie baby:
Remember, on 9/11, it was Islamists who perpetrated the atrocities, not the Amish, Shintoists, Buddhists or Jews.
The only “Palin” I want right now is for us to do to Islamic jihadists what Vlad the Impaler did to them way back then. “Im-Palin” on large stakes and let them rot.
Put that in your burqua and smoke it!
Another reason to vote for Sarah.
Maybe he’s positioning for a run as Obozo’s running mate?
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