Palin sparks Twitter fight on mosque
By Maggie Haberman
Jul 18, 2010
Sarah Palin, who waded into a New York political fight by endorsing Ann Marie Buerkle in NY-25, is drifting into a decidedly higher-charged battle: The fray over a planned mosque near Ground Zero.
"Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing," she tweeted Sunday.
The building’s planners, the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative, have said it’s modeled on religious and community centers such as the YMCA, and that the 13-story, $100 million building would also include an arts center, gym and a swimming pool, as well as a mosque. It would be two blocks away from Ground Zero.
The project, which has become an increasingly partisan issue in New York, received a renewed burst of national attention when CBS and NBC rejected an ad from the National Republican Trust PAC that crosscut footage of the 9/11 attacks with the sounds of Muslim prayer.
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Those folk wish to have the mosque right at ground zero as a nose-thumbing exercise in their pursuit of world domination via Shari "Law".
ReplyDeleteI would be a monstrous insult to most Americans ... and I've no doubt they almost universally know that abd hope to accomplish that precise insult. It should not be allowed and if the NY city fathers allow it, they should be put out of office forthwith!