Pres. Obama Endorses Building Mosque Near Ground Zero
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2010/08/14 03:12:36
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed building a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less.
"As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country," Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has riven New York City and the nation.
"That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances," he said. "This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable."
Obama made the comments at an annual dinner in the White House State Dining Room celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
I've thought from the beginning that BO was in the background pulling the strings. All he had to do was tell Bloomberg that it was in the national interest to back the building of this mosque. BO has just lost all hope of gaining any votes in the State of New York. Plus he's proven himself an idiot by trying to appease the Middle Eastern countries. They are our allies as long as we're paying them. Once we stop paying them or they get a better offer they're no longer our allies, it's simple as that. What's really tragic is the radical’s fanatics are going to attack us again and it won't a shoe or waist bomber. These are just distractions until they are ready to strike and then it’s going to be big. We could be ready for it but the idiot BO is forcing us to let our guard down. All because he wants to known as the man who brought peace to Middle East. Like I said he’s an idiot!
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Patrioteer 2010/08/14 04:27:18
+4Okay, so our president doesn't support a national day of prayer, but he supports celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan!!!!!! He's finally being transparent about his beliefs!
As soon as we confuse Islam itself with the actions of Al Qaeda, we have crossed a line into dangerous prejudice. We should all condemn terrorism and violent fundamentalism, in all its forms, whether Islamic, Christian, Nationalist, etc. But furthermore, people of conscience should step back and find a good way to relate to Islam as a whole in this particular moment in history.
As a non-Muslim, I seek to learn more about the multifaceted nature of this faith, and build friendships with all progressive and liberal movements within Islam which emphasize Islamic tradition's most egalitarian strands, and support them in making alternatives to Fundamentalist and Theocratic movements.
In freedom of religion, I would love us to honor the dead by taking the higher road of tolerance and critical thinking, to welcome the Islamic center in Camberley , and look foreward to the building of progressive churches and synagogues near by.
9/11 we will never forget, and will stand by our lights of plurality.
From Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
When I heard that O supported the Mosque at ground zero today, something occurred to me: every issue that has come up since O has been in office, it seems that he waits until their is a public opinion and them he takes the opposite view. On every one of these programs/policies the American public has come out against them, and he weighs in for them: Stimulus Package, Cash for Clunkers, Mandated Health Care, Immigration reform law in Arizona, Immediate response to the Gulf Oil Leak, Mosque at Ground Zero. This litany is just a few of the issues that he has diametrically opposed the will of the majority of Americans.
You can almost take it to the bank that if the American People are for something, O is against it; and of course vice versa.
"I apologize, I may have made a mistake in the wording of my last comment what I trying to say was that if they were being given the chance to build in a location that fit their building plans they should not pass it up to please people who clearly don't respect them as member of this country sheerly on the religion that they have chosen. Also since you brought it up ConEdison also can do what it wants with it property holdings."
-Me for the third time
You are very right, they can build were ever they want to build... it just seems a bit disrespectful to me! It would be like the Japinese building near Pearl Harbor!
No one is saying that the people of Islamic faith don't have a constitutional right to build a Mosque in the United States. We are however (edit spelling) rightly questioning...
Who is funding it?
Why does it have to be built there?
Will the teaching be wahhabism?
Why was the proposed opening 9-11-11?