Mayor to mosque foes: Shut up already!

ny post ^ | 8/7/2010 | BILL SANDERSON

[tobyhill]

Mayor Bloomberg won’t stop talking about the mosque near Ground Zero, harshly attacking opponents yesterday who “ought to be ashamed of themselves.”

Sounding more supportive of freedom of religion than freedom of speech, Bloomberg said, "I just don't think the government should tell people where they can pray and where they can build houses of worship.

"It is a shame that we even have to talk about this," the mayor added on his WOR radio broadcast.

The mayor ratcheted up his rhetoric against critics just days after defending the mosque in an impassioned speech on Governors Island, with the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop.

Yesterday, Bloomberg said cops and firefighters who died on 9/11 didn't ask people in the World Trade Center, "Where do you pray?" as they tried to save their lives.

"Most of the [9/11 rescuers'] families that I've talked to, they say, 'Of course our loved ones gave their lives to protect the very freedoms that we're talking about here -- people being able to practice religion and say what they want to say and be in control of their own destiny,' " the mayor said.

[philman_36]

"I just don't think the government should tell people where they can pray and where they can build houses of worship.

All right! Way to go, dude!
Bloomberg wants to do away with zoning laws!

What?! If liberals do it why can't I?

[television is just wrong]

bloomberg is a case of arrested development

[yoe]

Does anyone know the members of the Landmarks Preservation Commission and their names....how many are Muslims or have Muslim affiliations? Mayor Bloomberg is guilty of High Treason
for siding with Islam over America.....9/11 was not just a New York City event, it was an American event....Muslims Attacked America. Will this numskull ever see the light? As an America who was also attacked, I do not want this Muslim Trophy Mosque...they did not win or ever will. Imam Feisal Abdul Rau is an oily liar, he does not want peace, he wants Sharia Law in America and he will stop at nothing for get his mosque. SHAME on New York’s Mayor, the city deserves better.