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Title: Obama under fire over support for mosque near Ground Zero- After a barrage of criticism, president appears to backtrack, saying: 'I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there'
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guardian.co.uk
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201 ... bama-under-fire-mosque-support
Published: Aug 14, 2010
Author: Paul Harris
Post Date: 2010-08-14 22:52:09 by WhiteSands
Keywords: obama, muslim
Views: 58509
Comments: 98
obama has come under attack from American conservatives for supporting plans to build a mosque two blocks from the site of one of the terror attacks of 11 September 2001. The proposal for a mosque and community centre near the site of the World Trade Centre has attracted a large opposition movement in a fierce argument over religious freedom. At a White House dinner marking Ramadan, Obama said: "As a citizen, and as president, I believe Muslims have the same right to practise their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community centre on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable." But New York Republican congressman Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker, condemned the proposed mosque and the president's comments. He said the mosque would be a symbol of Muslim "triumphalism" and that building it near the site of the 9/11 attacks "would be like putting a Nazi sign next to the Holocaust museum". Obama appeared last night to retreat from his remarks. "I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there," he told reporters while visiting the Gulf Coast. "I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That's what our country is about." The fierce debate over the mosque has dominated newspaper debates in New York for several months and gradually spread nationwide. Opponents of the mosque number many conservatives, including leaders of the Tea Party movement and the former Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, and also relatives of the victims of 9/11 and a Jewish civil rights group, the Anti-Defamation League. Meanwhile one of the most vocal supporters of the mosque is a former star of the Republican party, the New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. The developer behind the mosque welcomed Obama's support. "We are deeply moved and tremendously grateful for our president's words," Sharif el-Gamal told the New York Times.
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#3. To: WhiteSands (#0)
" It is better to be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt"
Advice I notice you rarely follow. ;-D Now Murron, don't get too angry. You did leave yourself wide open for a retort like this.
LOL! "Moral" advice from a LYING POS such as you weasel boy? Now THAT'S FUNNY! Who are you today weasel boy? cornhole flake girl? mikeyK? weasel boy? LOL! You are nothing but a foul lying libTURD hypocrite whore/FOOL/tool b!tch. I bet "holiday" dinners at your house are a real BLAST! How EVER do you decide which one of your yous carves the tofu at your Kwanza dinner weasel boy? LMAO!!!!!
Just a reminder, muslims (along with Christians, Jews, and probably some Buddhists) died during 9/11. The killers cared mostly about body count.
Just a reminder to you too, Islam worshipers do not care who they kill when slaughtering their enemies, they will kill their own, sending their own children out as human bombs should have given you a clue...
But...but...that's just more racism and Islamophobic lies.../s By Clue #1001 Suzanne and the other "enlightened" pro-commie goofballs MIGHT get it. But by that time she'll be wearing a burka and no one will recognize her anyway.
Kind of like what Christians did to Native Americans, Murie. The Cherokees had fully assimilated, but greedy Christian White men drove them from ancestral homeland because they coveted their land. Amusing cartoon, but study Manifest Destiny and the Doctrine of Discovery and how these were important elements 'good Christians' were influenced by when they committed genocide against the indigenous people of the Americas. Your knowledge of history and many other things are very shallow and what you do know about, you don't know well at all.
LOL! ANY time that you "discomfort" a libTURD M you can count on them turning to a page in their play book. Weasel boy is on the "pretend that you are intellectually superior" page. Hey it works on the co-eds! Did you know that a newspaper was FASCINATED by "him" also? It's TRUE! "He" told me "him"self, so it's just gotta be true. Right? (Allow me M). WHO CARES? LOL!
Weasel boy is on the "pretend that you are intellectually superior" page. That page must be missing, he's blathering like kunta kinte without his teleprompter...
LOL! WERD!
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest"I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there, I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding."
#17. To: Murron (#3)
" It is better to be thought a fool than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt"
#19. To: Ferret Mikemurron (#17)
#21. To: Mad Dog, corn flake girl (#19)
#23. To: Murron (#21)
#26. To: Suzanne (#23)
(Edited)
Just a reminder, muslims (along with Christians, Jews, and probably some Buddhists) died during 9/11. The killers cared mostly about body count
#30. To: Murron, Suzanne (#26)
Just a reminder to you too, Islam worshipers do not care who they kill when slaughtering their enemies, they will kill their own, sending their own children out as human bombs should have given you a clue...
#44. To: Liberator, corn flake girl, Suzanne, Mad Dog (#30)
But...but...that's just more racism and Islamophobic lies.../s
#46. To: Murron (#44)
#50. To: Murron, weasel boy (#46)
Your knowledge of history and many other things are very shallow and what you do know about, you don't know well at all.
#54. To: Mad Dog (#50)
ANY time that you "discomfort" a libTURD M you can count on them turning to a page in their play book.
#55. To: Murron (#54)
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