Obama: “Ground Zero is, indeed, hallowed ground, but”
Shadows
of Palestinian women are seen at Qalandiya checkpoint outside the West
Bank city of Ramalla August 28, 2009, on their way to the Al-Aqsa Mosque
in Jerusalem on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (Reuters, Fadi Arouri)
By Sissy Willis of sisu
"Ground Zero is, indeed, hallowed ground, but let me make clear," said the president at "a White House dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan"
today, spinning effortlessly 180 degrees from his previous position
that the Ground Zero Mosque controversy was a "local issue" which he
would not weigh in on:
As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same
right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. 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.
Is that inspiring, or what? We are now being asked to believe that
Mr. Obama had embraced the idea all along but was waiting for someone else to cast the first stone the locals to weigh in. Who woulda thunk it, a statist deferring to subsidiarity?
Aides to Mr. Obama say privately that he has always felt strongly about
the proposed community center and mosque. But the White House did not
want to weigh in until local authorities made a decision on the
proposal, planned for two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 attack on
the World Trade Center.
We can only guess at what polling entrails revealed to the Leader of the Free World that it was okay to spit in the face of the overwhelming majority of his fellow Americans who oppose
the building of an Islamic tower in the psychological shadow of what
once was the Twin Towers. Perhaps it was an attempt to appease an angry base recently dissed by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs as "crazy" and in need of drug testing.
Crossposted at sisu and Liberty Pundits.
Hmmmm.
The KKK/neo-Nazis biggest mistake was in not organizing themselves as a religion.
Lets hope that they don’t learn from the radical muslims.
As I said before, this may turn out to be an even larger mistake than Obamacare politically. 70% of America is against this and it will only get worse.
I predicted that Obama backing this mosque would be a critical political mistake, and every Republican running for office now has the duty to ask their Democrat opponent “Do you agree with the President on this?”
They need to squirm on this one. Every Democrat now has to go on the record on this, and it’s lose-lose for them. They know it. Every one of them is cursing Obama right now.
Obama cannot be removed from office fast enough.
Why don’t they just name it the Obama mosque and get it over with?
Or how about designating it as an auxiliary of his Presidential library. After all, I’m sure he’s planning to have a mosque at his library for the convenience of his many Muslim friends and relatives.
Obama promotes Islam to an incredible degree. His completely false Ramadan statements make me think it goes way beyond the normal leftie multicultural ass kissing. Probably because his Kenyan family were Muslim and because of Islam’s hostility to Christianity. I know he went to Trinity United, but that’s not actually a Christian church.
Sissy Willis,
Your gift for hyperbole doesn’t do anything to help your ‘argument’.
The president did not ‘spit in the face’ of anyone.
Or perhaps you’re are spitting on American Democracy, religious freedom, property rights?
He expressed his opinion – and it turns out not to be an unexpected one.
You’re all snark and sarcasm.
No wonder Dan has found a friend.
Curious – what would you have him do here…stop the center? How?
Or were you just hoping he’d hop on with the latest display (Allah knows there will be more) of irrational anti-Islam fervor?
“Or perhaps you’re are spitting on American Democracy, religious freedom, property rights? ”
Except for the fact that Park57 developers claimed that they would be establishing a Community Center for the International Community rather than a religious structure for Muslims to worship.
If the property is zoned for a Community Center why then are Mike Bloomberg and Barack Obama making a ‘religious freedom’ argument?
Park57 said they are building a Community Center, Obama and Bloomberg are saying that it will be a Mosque?
Who is telling the truth?
Calling King Shabazz. Calling King Shabazz. We have a situation here. Come in King Shabazz. Over.
Now if it were a “Christian community center” who would protest?