Who asked you??? Muslim-born Miss USA says she opposes Ground Zero Islamic center

[no_hypocrisy]

The reigning Miss USA has come out against the Ground Zero mosque, saying "it shouldn't be so close" to Ground Zero.

The 24-year-old Rima Fakih, is the first Muslim winner of the Miss USA contest and is preparing for the Miss Universe Pageant, scheduled for Monday in Las Vegas.

"I totally agree with President Obama with the statement on Constitutional rights of freedom of religion," Fakih told "Inside Edition" in an interview that will air tonight.

"I also agree that it shouldn't be so close to the World Trade Center. We should be more concerned with the tragedy than religion."

Read more:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ground_zero_mosque_imam_says_radical_7rGRZmCD1Lh7sf2QSiYSRJ

[bluestateguy]

1. Sounds like language written by her publicist or agent

Got to keep those contracts and endorsements rolling in, you know.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. More like Donald Trump. He owns the show.

[rucky]

12. And for the rest of the year, he owns her.

[MadHound]

2. Well, there's actually a bright spot in this,

This statement will make Freeper's heads explode. I remember they were all up in arms about there being an Islamic Miss USA. Now they're going to have to make a major mental adjustment now that she agrees with them.

[steve2470]

5. +1 nt

[dkf]

6. She has taken the mantle of the moderate away from the mosque proponents.

[seattleblue]

15. So Reid and Dean are freepers now?

Are other Democrats in Congress who are expressing doubts or misgivings about the mosque freepers too? Has this become the new purity test?

[steve2470]

4. Constitutional lawyer, not nt

[Llewlladdwr]

7. Perhaps she's merely exercising her First Amendment right to free speech. NT

Edit: poor spelling

[Jackpine Radical]

8. That whole mosque thing is nuts.

The country is sinking, Americans are dying every day in Godforsaken parts of the world, people are unemployed, losing their homes, losing their livelihoods, losing their families and losing their minds.

And 80% or so of the national-discourse bandwidth is fucking filled with chatter about where to build a mosque.

Get a grip, America!

[JI7]

9. She wants to be popular, liked and accepted by the majority

[tanyev]

10. Gosh, think the RW nuts will change their mind about her now?

- Conservative radio host Debbie Schlussel blamed Fakih’s win on a supposed “politically correct, Islamo-pandering climate” in America and labeled her a “Lebanese Muslim Hezbollah supporter with relatives who are top terrorists.” <5/16/10>

– Right wing pundit and Fox contributor Michelle Malkin ranted that “Fakih’s cheerleaders are too busy tooting the identity politics horn to care what comes out of her mouth” and that “the Miss USA pageant didn’t want to risk the wrath of the open-borders mob.” <5/16/10>

– Conservative author Daniel Pipes, who was briefly appointed by former President George W. Bush to the U.S. Institute of Peace, opined that “this surprising frequency of Muslims winning beauty pageants makes me suspect an odd form of affirmative action.” <5/16/10>

– Fox News’s Gretchen Carlson complained that Woolard’s “informed opinion” may have cost her the crown, and said that Fakih may have won because we live in a “PC society.” <5/17/10>


http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/17/right-rage-muslim-usa/

[Fla_Democrat]

11. Looks like "Inside Edition"

:smoke:

[alp227]

13. Sucking it up to emotions, eh?

Well why not just shred the Constitution and appeal to emotion for all public policy then?

Like, why haven't heavy metal concerts and sales of first-person shooter video games been banned from Denver after the Columbine shootings?

Or why there's hardly much demand to shut down Catholic churches in the wake of the pedophile priest scandal?

[seattleblue]

14. Who asked her?

I think if the President of the U.S. expresses an opinion on something then it is certainly open game for anyone else.