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Muslim leaders to abandon plans for Ground Zero community center (Disputed)
Haaretz.com ^ | 8/16/10 | Shlomo Shamir

Posted on 08/16/2010 1:11:51 PM PDT by Bokababe

After weeks of heated debate over plans for an Islamic community center near Ground Zero - the site of the 9/11 attacks on New York - it seems Muslim leaders will soon back down, agreeing to move to a new site. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


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To: Bokababe

This falls into the “too good to be true” category. I hope I’m wrong.


181 posted on 08/17/2010 6:23:47 AM PDT by American Quilter (Democrats are anti-American traitors. They must be voted out of office.)
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To: Bokababe

You know as well as I that if this pans out to be true, its only a means to an ends. It appears to me that they prematurely announced the construction of this mosque and along with Obama’s slip of the tongue, this little islamic victory party is being delayed until the political heat has blown over.


182 posted on 08/17/2010 7:59:50 AM PDT by montyspython
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To: GonzoGOP

“By moving the Mosque they remove the issue”.
Well, that’s what they think.
It has only gotten this far because they’ve controlled the
terms of the argument, and set the parameters of discourse
on the issue. The proposal of putting ‘Cordoba House’ so close to Ground Zero should have been hooted off the stage a thousand times more loudly than it was: NOW the issue is cast in a more ‘reasonable’ mode, namely, “put it somewhere else”. This to me is equally unacceptable, and from what I’ve heard, is also unacceptable to Imam Rauf.
The NEW issue, going forward, will be to battle the same kind of Islamic Center being built ANYWHERE in New York.Knowing what the original designs for Cordoba House were, why would a new location be any different, except for the ‘loss’ of the overpowering symbolism of putting it at Ground Zero? I can assure you of ONE THING, and that is that this Mosque will NEVER be built at the proposed site:
I live very close to NYC in New Jersey, and this issue is
becoming CENTRAL to everyone running for offices high and low in New York City and New York State.
The problem is, we’ve allowed them to frame the argument thus far-——will we have the nerve to take it to a higher level, and set our OWN terms for this unfortunate and entirely unnecessary “dialogue” with Islam?


183 posted on 08/17/2010 8:45:37 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Every election is like an advance auction sale of stolen goods"--H.L.Mencken)
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To: Bokababe

Heads exploding everywhere at DU.


184 posted on 08/17/2010 8:46:29 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Scythian
Obama said “Look guys, back off on this until the fools vote for me again in 2012 then you can have the 911 site itself ...”

Ding! Ding! Ding!

185 posted on 08/17/2010 9:07:04 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: Bokababe

Appeasement?

Or (if true) is it:

— we don’t actually own the property
— our funders really are terrorists
— we’ve been smoked out on this one
— Obama asked us to lay off
— let’s ACT like we are sympathetic


186 posted on 08/17/2010 9:13:53 AM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: supremedoctrine
The proposal of putting ‘Cordoba House’ so close to Ground Zero should have been hooted off the stage a thousand times more loudly than it was: NOW the issue is cast in a more ‘reasonable’ mode, namely, “put it somewhere else”.

"Two steps forward;
One step back."

187 posted on 08/17/2010 10:31:46 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: Bokababe

When I see it I’ll believe it

meanwhile where is the 9/11 dedication site?

Why has it not been made a National Monument like Pearl harbor’s USS Arizona?

Our leaders are all screwed up on priorities and PC.


188 posted on 08/17/2010 10:57:49 AM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Bokababe

This is only because the imam is having trouble raising $100 million overseas for something that may never materialize — even with the State Department paving his way. PLUS, it’s because this issue is KILLING the Democrats. Notice the polls. For the first time ever, GOP is at 50 percent in Gallup and the gap above EMS is at the biggest EVER. PERIOD. I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama is behind this, if it is true.


189 posted on 08/17/2010 11:02:17 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: W-Girl
“He is a distinguished Muslim cleric,” said State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley. “We do have a program whereby, through our Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau here at the State Department, we send people from Muslim communities here in this country around the world to help people overseas understand our society and the role of religion within our society.”
IF Republicans have any guts they will ram this down Dem throats in October and thus reap a landslide victory in November.

Big, big, big, big, big, big IF... I know.

190 posted on 08/19/2010 4:38:07 AM PDT by samtheman
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