Posted on 09/12/2010 10:10:42 AM PDT by Qbert
The ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee accused the imam behind the mosque project near Ground Zero of arm-twisting and "blackmailing" to push Park51 through.
"To me, it's almost as if he's blackmailing and threatening the United States that somehow if the mosque is not approved or people speak out against his mosque, you have to worry about being attacked by Islamic terrorists," Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on Fox Business Network on Friday.
King said that the Islamic center was being "put their to make a statement, not to build bridges, but to make a statement."
"We don't have to prove ourselves to anyone and certainly don't have to measure up to some standard set by an imam who said that the U.S. was a co-conspirator of 9/11," King said.
The imam sits down for his first Sunday interview on ABC's "This Week" this weekend.
This is a house with multi-faith stakeholders, multi-faith partners, intended to work together towards building peace, he said, according to excerpts released by ABC.
RAUF: "I am extremely concerned about sensitivity. But I also have a responsibility. If we move from that location, the story will be that the radicals (Rauf's term for GZM opponents-ed.) have taken over the discourse. The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack. And Im less concerned about the radicals in America than Im concerned about the radicals in the Muslim world...If we do move, it will strengthen the argument of the radicals to recruit, their ability to recruit, and their increasing aggression and violence against our country.
Palin and many others on the right issued public statements asking Pastor Jones to 'stand down' on his Koran-burning plan. If there really is a possibility of Islamic terrorism committed in response to the mosque being moved, how come nobody is calling on the so-called 'moderate' Imam Rauf (and other GZM proponents) to take a public stand against the possibility of such violence?
Rally from yesterday.
He may have just set a precedent for future blackmail schemes. Want a quick 25% profit on your property? Just announce the building of a Mosque on it. Slick.
“Imam is no peacemaker. His lack of sensitivity is intentional provocation.”
Exactly.
Just patterning himself off of a JJ shake down.
Sounds like the Mafia. If you don’t do this, something bad might happen to you.
Does he still support the IRA?
Nice little country you got here. Would be a real shame if something happened to it... on account of this little Mosque location misunderstanding.
Remember the movie The Great Escape?
Remember how the men moved dirt from the tunnels they were digging by releasing it in the yard through bags hidden in their pant legs?
I’ve often imagined the same scenario, only with citizens of New York releasing pig’s blood on the real estate in question.
But, then....it would be too secretive.
Of course it’s blackmail, and the US left is a willing victim.
“Remember the movie The Great Escape?
Remember how the men moved dirt from the tunnels they were digging by releasing it in the yard through bags hidden in their pant legs?
Ive often imagined the same scenario, only with citizens of New York releasing pigs blood on the real estate in question.
But, then....it would be too secretive.”
Yep. (Love the movie, btw)
Why can’t pigs blood be sprayed from a helicopter over the top of the building and let some of it dribble down the sides. The chopper could be painted RED with no numbers, no writing just read.
They learn fast from old jesse jackson and al sharpton...extortion works well for them....
They hark back to the Muslim Barbary Pirates extorting money from the new United States.
ping
An Imam “peacemaker” is an oxymore !
BTW i would remind christians, overall “liberal christians”, that Jesus never promised peace at any price and his very life shows that he never fled strong oppositions and confrontations....till he died.
That fake “peace” stuff and fake “tolerance” rethoric are actually used by liberals to silence oppositions and critics picturing them as hate speech or inrolerance or warmongering
“BTW i would remind christians, overall liberal christians, that Jesus never promised peace at any price and his very life shows that he never fled strong oppositions and confrontations....till he died.
That fake peace stuff and fake tolerance rethoric are actually used by liberals to silence oppositions and critics picturing them as hate speech or inrolerance or warmongering”
Excellent point.
People need to be reminded of this...on a daily basis!
The Imam has been traveling to the Middle East hustling Saudi oil sheiks for big donations. Both he and the real estate broker who owns the building are in this for the money.
Typical muslim savagism that liberals feel homey with.
Destroy the towers, make people poor and without a house, build a mosque as their new butt hole fest home.
Voila’ America’s future under surrender and liberalism toward evil cults.
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