I want to hear Gingrich, Boner and King say EXACTLY those words to a group of Muslims engaged in Ramadan.
The three 'brave' Republican leaders need to hold a rally at the place where the Mosque is proposed in NYC and invite all those that hope to worship there to come.
The Republicans couldn't defeat al Qaeda in Afghanistan, so they think they'll divert their defeat to Lower Manhattan and verbally defeat innocent and unarmed people there.
The issue is not about a Mosque, it is about religious freedom, the rights to practice and the fear of a religion abused by extremists to justify the deaths of people on September 11, 2001. The Mosque is unfortunately being used as a symbol of an al Qaeda victory. It has nothing to do with that and this is how 'cross burning' begins, too.
The USA is not an exclusively a Christian nation UNLESS one wants to rule every event by 'populous concensus.' This political debate is really a national shame.
...The debate over the proposed Islamic center in Manhattan (click title to entry - thank you) only intensified on Saturday, as the conservative blogosphere lighted up with criticism of Mr. Obama, and leading Republicans — including Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker; Representative John A. Boehner, the House minority leader; and Representative Peter T. King of New York — forcefully rejected the president’s stance.
Mr. Gingrich accused the president of “pandering to radical Islam.” Mr. Boehner said the decision to build a mosque so close to ground zero was “deeply troubling, as is the president’s decision to endorse it.” And Mr. King flatly said the president “is wrong,” adding that Mr. Obama had “caved in to political correctness.”...
Sad. Very sad. Nine years later and Lower Manhattan is still without a building and now this political debate only adds to the indignity of it all. The diversoin of the war we should have fought into Iraq and the resultant corruption of Afghanistan should never have occurred and this issue would have been settled a half a decade ago. Why is it a failed Republican administration and Congress is only perpetuated by evidence of its obvious failures?
