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Ground Zero mosque Imam blames Sarah Palin for 'growing Islamophobia'
Telegraph UK ^ | 9/12/2010 | Telegraph UK

Posted on 09/12/2010 6:03:11 PM PDT by opentalk

The Muslim cleric behind plans to build a mosque close to the Ground Zero site has blamed politicians such as Sarah Palin for fuelling a "growing Islamophobia" that led to the burning of Korans on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

The Reverend Terry Jones abandoned his "international burn a Koran day" in Gainesville, Florida on Saturday but there were isolated instances in Tennessee and New York of the Muslim holy book being set alight.

"What has happened is that..certain politicians decided that this project would be very useful for their political ambitions," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said, adding that this had prompted a "growing Islamophobia" in the US.

Imam Rauf's proposal for an Islamic Centre, containing a mosque, two blocks from the site of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre, has become embroiled in controversy.

Mrs Palin was the first major national figure to get involved in what had been a localised dispute when she sent a Twitter message in July stating: "Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing."

Imam Rauf said Mrs Palin's intervention had been "disingenuous" and played a part of the issue being "hijacked by the radicals" over the summer.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: opentalk

Sarah Palin...the new George Bush to the lefties.


141 posted on 09/12/2010 11:27:29 PM PDT by hattend (Like a termite to wood, Obama only wants to destroy - Mark Levin)
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To: jeltz25

Here’s the sequence-
per Ben Smith Politico

Palin (7/18)
Gingrich (7/21)
Huckabee (8/4)
Pawlenty (8/6)
Romney (8/10) via spokesman
Obama (8/13)

She put the issue forward nationally,all the others chimed in. Obama was Johnny Come Lately.


142 posted on 09/12/2010 11:27:58 PM PDT by excopconservative
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To: opentalk
Why is anyone giving these pig-faced desert monkey Muslims the time of day. They only want to kill or enslave all of us.

We should be shooting every one of these bastards!

143 posted on 09/13/2010 12:03:35 AM PDT by blam
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To: opentalk

This is the same imam that said that we will get attacked if this mosque is not built.


144 posted on 09/13/2010 12:29:16 AM PDT by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: opentalk

I’m convinced that the entire Ground Zero mosque is a construct of the liberals. The leftwing media is trying to frame it as though the vast majority of Americans are in favor of the Moaque, while in reality, the majority don’t want it at Ground Zero.


145 posted on 09/13/2010 12:45:36 AM PDT by meyer (Our own government has become our enemy,...)
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To: jeltz25
Interestingly, if you look at a number of polls taken on the ground zero mosque, women oppose it in stronger #s(and thus support the conservative/Republican position) than men do.

Very interesting. Maybe a little common sense or at least sense of self-preservation is kicking in.

147 posted on 09/13/2010 2:18:24 AM PDT by livius
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To: opentalk
"Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing."

I call political motive. If they think that that statement is incitement to islamophobia they have a very odd definition of it. Basically Palin is being slammed for being a conservative. Any stick will do.

148 posted on 09/13/2010 3:00:32 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Ken522
How much do you want to bet that Feisal Abdul Rauf is a registered democrat?

He is playing the Dems like a Stradivarius...

149 posted on 09/13/2010 3:35:18 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: opentalk
Unholy Alliance-Radical Islam and the American Left by David Horowitz
150 posted on 09/13/2010 3:45:33 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: opentalk
Sarah Palin

And the final puzzle piece falls into place.

The libs finally have their cover for their position on the mosque--they can't say "Bush's fault!" but they get the next best thing--"Palin's fault!" "Her rightwing rhetoric is going to cause another 9/11!" "If there's another attack, it was brought on not by Obama's not taking Islamofascism seriously, it's cuz PALIN started it!"

Olberman must be doing a jig...

151 posted on 09/13/2010 4:00:47 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. -- written by Robert Towne)
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To: opentalk

Does this imam blame hamas for anything?

Nope....didn’t think so.


152 posted on 09/13/2010 4:20:54 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Planning on using 911? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
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To: opentalk

I love how Sarah hits them directly without holding back and plating RINO/PC talk.

She always can get the left wing kooks to expose themselves as the stupid socialists that they are.

See my tagline....


153 posted on 09/13/2010 4:24:34 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: Diogenesis

Islamophobia is one of the fears which is not irrational.

Anyone who says it is irrational only needs to (re)see those images.


154 posted on 09/13/2010 4:39:55 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Planning on using 911? Google "Brittany Zimmerman")
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To: opentalk
.... the issue being "hijacked by the radicals" over the summer.

No Imam Rauf, it's statements like this that outrage me and my fellow Americans and it will certainly get much much worse long before it gets better if you and your fellow American hating Islamic terrorist keep pushing us and calling anyone who defies or oppose you, haters. Go for it you moronic miscreant imbecile.

155 posted on 09/13/2010 4:50:28 AM PDT by Ron H. (Impeach Hussein Obama before he can declare himself dictator!)
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To: opentalk
"People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like building a mosque at Ground Zero." - Sarah Palin via Facebook
156 posted on 09/13/2010 5:03:02 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: opentalk
Like Obambi, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is proving that there is NO such thing as a moderate Muslim.

Obambi's missing wedding ring during Rhamadan and staff reports that he prays all the time are telling....

157 posted on 09/13/2010 5:05:30 AM PDT by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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To: opentalk

There is no “phobia” brewing in America, sir. There is an education based enlightenment of the true political & judicial philosophy of the Koran spreading over our nation. Without the help of the MSM, I might add.


158 posted on 09/13/2010 5:13:45 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: opentalk

A phobia is an unreasonable fear. IMHO, we have every reason to fear Islam.


159 posted on 09/13/2010 5:20:38 AM PDT by knittnmom ("...only dead fish 'go with the flow'". - Sarah Palin 7/09)
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To: knittnmom

There is no mooslamo-phobia...more descriptively it is mooslamo-disgustia. These adherents to the 7th century are disgusting.


160 posted on 09/13/2010 5:28:07 AM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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