This is unbelievable! I am almost speechless….
Let me review to see if I have this right.
So we are attacked on 9/11 by muslims killing 2800+ innocent civilians,
nine years later they try to build a mosque two blocks from ground zero (set to open ON the 10th anniversary of 9/11),
they meet resistance from US citizens (which they warn will incite violence from muslims worldwide),
when asked, they refuse to consider moving the mosque or to limit funding to non-terrorist groups,
then when the Iman in charge is later interviewed and asked about moving the mosque, he claims:
“…that moving the facility could cause a violent backlash from Muslim extremists and endanger national security.”
He also states:
“The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack.”
So we need to be sensitive to the muslims.
Who was attacked again? Oh, America.
And who was it that attacked? Oh yeah, the muslims.
I guess it is also dark during the day and light at night.
Have we lost our minds? (Evidently.)
Why are we playing these games? Oh yeah, the muslims are so very sensitive. You don’t want to upset their peaceful sensitivities or they will riot, burn things, attack and kill you.
We have departed reality and the world is upside down!
Oh wait, it is light outside, I better go to bed….
(If this isn’t enough, check out a related post: Fight 93 Memorial Mosque).
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Imam: Moving Mosque Could Ignite Violence
CNN, via AP
Sept. 8: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf speaks to guest host Soledad O’Brien during a live broadcast of Larry King Live.
NEW YORK — The imam behind a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero cautioned Wednesday that moving the facility could cause a violent backlash from Muslim extremists and endanger national security.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told CNN that the discourse surrounding the center has become so politicized that moving it could strengthen the ability of extremists abroad to recruit and wage attacks against Americans, including troops fighting in the Middle East.
“The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack,” he said, but he added that he was open to the idea of moving the planned location of the center, currently two blocks north of the World Trade Center site.
“But if you don’t do this right, anger will explode in the Muslim world,” he later said, predicting that the reaction could be more furious than the eruption of violence following the 2005 publication of Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Opponents say the center, which would include a Sept. 11 memorial and a Muslim prayer space, should be moved farther away from where Islamic extremists destroyed the World Trade Center and killed nearly 2,800 people. Supporters say religious freedom should be protected.
Rauf, 61, has largely been absent since the debate over the center erupted earlier this year. He has been traveling abroad, including taking a State Department-funded 15-day trip to the Middle East to promote religious tolerance.
In the interview with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, his first since returning to the U.S. on Sunday, Rauf responded to a number of questions that have been raised about the project.
He said money to develop the center would be raised domestically for the most part.
“And we’ll be very transparent on how we raise money,” he said, adding that no funds would be accepted from sources linked to extremists.
Rauf said that, in retrospect, he might have chosen a different location for what he described as a multifaith community center.
“If I knew this would happen, if it would cause this kind of pain, I wouldn’t have done it,” he said.
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