Beck, Geller push falsehood that Ground Zero "mosque" will open on September 11
Glenn Beck and Pamela Geller advanced the false claim that the New York City Islamic cultural center will open on September 11, 2011. In fact, both the executive director of one of the groups spearheading the project, as well as the Imam involved, have flatly denied that the center is slated to open on September 11.
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Beck, Geller, push falsehood that "Ground Zero mosque" will open on 9/11
Beck: "You want to open [the center] on September 11th? You're a fool."* On the August 10 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, guest Glenn Beck acknowledged that "we have no right to stop" the building of the center, but said it is "in extraordinarily bad taste, I think it's foolish, I think it's a slap in the face to do it," and added, "You want to open it on September 11? You're a fool. You're insulting people, but we have no right to stop you."*
Geller promoting ads which suggest the center will open on September 11, 2001. Atlas Shrugs blogger Pamela Geller promoted ads showing an image of the World Trade Center with the words "September 11, 2011, WTC Jihad Attack" and an image of the planned cultural center,--with a photoshopped image of the crescent of Islam superimposed over it--with the words "September 11, 2011." From Atlas Shrugs:
Project's Executive Director and Imam call the allegations "absolutely false"
Project's executive director called the allegation "absolutely false." In a conversation with Media Matters, Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, one of the organizations spearheading the project, called the allegation "absolutely false." Khan also said, in a statement:
We are in the preliminary planning stages of the center and the timeline has yet to be determined..
We do agree with Ms. Palin and others that it is time to heal from the wounds of the tragic events of 9/11. We peace- loving Muslims have a responsibility to lead the effort of rebuilding Lower Manhattan. We envision a community center for multi-faith collaboration that is focused on promoting integration, tolerance of difference and community cohesion.
Imam Rauf reportedly "said the mosque will not open on the anniversary of 9/11." On May 26, Newsday reported that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Imam involved in the project, "said the mosque will not open on the anniversary of 9/11, and that it will take between 18 months and three years before the money is raised to open the center at the old Burlington Coat Factory building on Park Place, which was damaged on 9/11. Rauf said the building will either be demolished, or renovated depending on a pending landmark status application."
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Sanctimonious, lying sack of cr@p!
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Why are these people attempting to subvert the Constitution? If they are successful, then the folks who attacked us on 9/11 will have won.
Yep, them "folks" will have won. Most "folks" call 'em terrorists (wait a minute, Obama and his "folks" don't, do they?)
You flaming lefties are a real trip....
What have we here? A liberal who can't accept differing opinions?
Who woulda thunk such a thing from the oh-so-tolerant Left? You know, the "compassionate" Party who endorses the tolerance of Muslims building an "in your face" mosque on the 9/11 site.
BTW, it appears the workers in NYC have said they won't participate in such a pathetic project. Makes one proud to be a New Yorker. Obviously they understand what the Muslim agenda is - as opposed to most that post here who don't "get it".
"And they want the Grand Opening for this mosque to be on 9/11?"
And as I wrote that afternoon...
"And show us ONE legit citing of ANYONE who's actually responsible for building this who says that the Grand Opening will be on 9/11."
There was NEVER any basis for this false meme - not last week, and not today, but that didn't stop anyone from pushing it.
And clearly having that pointed out tees some cowardly people off - people who won't even defend their stance.
And that's pretty funny - the point here was that this falsehood is indefensible and entirely an invention of the right, and 5 people invented an objection to my post and then failed to defend that objection!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
I didn't do it above.
I MOCKED the fools who thought it was an appropriate thing to do!
I pointed out how their failure to defend the indefensible (their objection to my post) was pointedly apt on a post about how no one on the right has EVER been able to defend their accusation that the Islamic Community Center is going to open on 9/11.
But hypocrite that YOU are, you ignore that fact to attack ME for something I didn't do by doing exactly what you accuse ME of doing! You're the one who clearly freaked out and overreacted to what I wrote by suggesting it must be paranoia!
Nope, it's not.
But YOUR only option was to make a bogus and baseless personal attack, as usual.
As a fellow poster, it was an understatement.
Make that 6.
Or is it that you've never bothered reading it?
Take a gander at the First Amendment, onementalgnat.
"The problem with Proposition 8 is that the majority can't vote to deny a minority a fundamental right protected by the Constitution without a really good reason."
The Muslims have the right to build that Community Center in that location.
And, on top of that, it's not offensive, in any case, for moderate, innocent Muslims to have that right.
Just as with the people who whine that we shouldn't allow gays in the military because it will upset the heterosexuals, we should not allow the bigots to control what we do - The BIGOTS are the ones with the problem!
Aren't you the same folks screaming about "The Constitution" and "too much government"?
It's down right hilarious that NOW you want "THE GOVERNMENT" to deny PRIVATE CITIZENS the right to build a house of worship on PRIVATE PROPERTY based on THEIR PARTICULAR RELIGION.
Can you spell C L U E L E S S?
Really?
Did all 1.57 billion Muslims get together and decide that building a community center in New York was a good tactic?
And pray tell, a tactic for what?
Time for another "vacation", this one didn't do you an ounce of good.