Obama supports plan for mosque near ground zero: At Ramadan dinner president breaks his silence

The Los Angeles Times ^ | August 13, 2010 | Peter Nicholas and Julia Love

[2ndDivisionVet]

President Obama on Friday took a strong stand in favor of building a mosque near the site where Muslim terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, breaking his silence on a political tempest that has left the country divided.

In prepared remarks for a White House dinner celebrating Ramadan, Obama framed the issue as one of religious freedom. Muslims, like anyone else, "have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country," Obama said. "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."

The uproar over the proposed mosque has rekindled a debate over religious tolerance in a post-Sept. 11 society. Some relatives of Sept. 11 victims have come out against the mosque, as have prominent politicians. Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin wrote in a Twitter feed that the mosque would be an "unnecessary provocation" at a time when the collapse of the Twin Towers was "too raw, too real."

A majority doesn't want to see the mosque built, surveys show. A CNN/Opinion Research poll earlier this month showed 68% opposed plans to build the mosque, with 29% in favor. Count as part of the minority New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who recently gave a speech defending the planned Islamic center.

In a statement released Friday night, Bloomberg said: "As I said last week, this proposed mosque and community center in Lower Manhattan is as important a test of the separation of church and state as we may see in our lifetime, and I applaud President Obama's clarion defense of the freedom of religion tonight."

[2ndDivisionVet]

I guess he's done pretending.

[an amused spectator]

We’re not allowed to post from The Onion... ;-)

[ILS21R]

Reid and Pelosi just soiled their Depends.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Somehow that does not seem to be a statement that will rally the electorate this November.

[an amused spectator]

Muslims, like anyone else, "have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country," Obama said. "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."

HAHAHAHAHAHA! He's SUCH a Muslim toolboy that he doesn't even SEE that even some of the Demmies will puke up stomach lining over this.

What a freaking moron! What an imbecilic dope!

[GlockThe Vote]

Obama will probably pray there. Disgusting.

[cranked]

It was and IS a GIVEN......=.=

[I still care]

Remember the WH secretary saying over Christmas the Obamas are going to have a religion free Christmas, because they don’t feel religion belongs in the WH?

Or Obama ignoring the national day of prayer?

Excellent comment. He doesn’t care any more.

The problem is, we’ve been talking to a man overseas who does business in the ME, and says Muslims there consider America, through Obama, claimed for Islam.

[charlie72]

I hope I’m wrong, but I am not convinced Obama will allow elections in November. That may be one reason he keeps spitting in our faces.

[Mr. K]

And remember over Christmas they then decided to have a “Christmas Wishing Tree”

Is that what mooselimbs call it?

[Venturer]

Was his non-Muslim wife allowed to eat with them?

[PGalt]

Obama framed the issue as one of religious freedom. Muslims, like anyone else, "have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country,"

Of course the con-man would say that. It's not a mosque, it's a base camp...as are all the other base camps in the U.S.A.

The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, the faithful our soldiers.

The taqiyya-man talkin' to the dhimmis.

The Base

[freethinker_for_freedom]

I’m wondering how you could constitutionally prohibit building this mosque, no matter how distasteful it may be.

[aposiopetic]

Some kind of Pfizer-style eminent domain, I suppose, not that it is really constitutional, either.

[popdonnelly]

This is utterly repulsive, and I can’t believe this is happening in America.

[LiberConservative]

F#ck Muslims. F#ck 0bama.

A mosque belongs out in the sticks ... with all the other terrorist cells we have in this country.

[traumer]

[muawiyah]

As I just this evening posted at the WarshPost comments on the same Obama article:

"muawiyah wrote:

Obama is very much like the boss who listens to the last guy to get to him.

If it'd been somebody telling him "Hey, Obama, time to put a 'ground zero' next to the Grand Mosque in Mecca" he'd probably got up and said that.

There's literally no mind behind the suit and the smile."

8/13/2010 9:27:37 PM

Recommend (10)"

So, thanks fellow Freepers, that "Recommend (10)" is a new record high for me ~ and actually on those WarshPost boards people are so nasty to each other, "10" is simply stratospheric. Actually means some Leftwingtards are voting for that rather artful piece.

[Frantzie]

Idiot Americans brainwashed by TV elected an Al Qeada mole. Keep watching and supporting TV folks - ALL the networks who own all the channels on TV support this.