Newt: "GZ mosque is a political statement of radical islamist triumph over world trade center"

[jefferson_dem]

Fact president refuses to face is the ground zero mosque is a political statement of radical islamist triumph over world trade center

http://twitter.com/newtgingrich/statuses/21151356535

The GOP's "Serious Man of Ideas" weighs in. Serious question: Are there *any* non-demagogues left in the Repug party?

[CoffeeCat]

1. Wow, Newt....what a great idea...

Let's demonize an entire class of people and create fear, paranoia and disgust for these people.

You're a former history professor, Newt. Tell us how well that propaganda and hate has worked
in the past.

Newt knows better. He's a very evil man.

[Botany]

5. Newt knows what he is doing and it is all about attacking Obama

Later on he will lie and speak of Sharia law being pushed by radical anti American
democrats.

The playbook is out for 2010 link Obama to muslims .... in 2004 it was the swift boat
treatment for John Kerry in 2000 it was Al Gore said he invented the internet. The lies
change from time to time but the calculus never does. I would bet my last dollar that
Creative Response Concepts is behind this crap.

[Pirate Smile]

2. So disgraceful.

[JHB]

3. Newt was ALWAYS a demagogue

He was when he was a back-bencher berating Reagan for negotiating with Gorbachev. He rose to power by demagoguing everything he could at every turn (including using New York as a punching bag, always popular with Georgia conservatives).

I'd wonder why he thinks he has any business commenting on anything happening in New York, since anyone with a shred of decency would be shamed by his record. But this is the aptly-named Newt we're talking about, so the question answers itself.

[Nancy Waterman]

4. Are there *any* non-demagogues left in the Repug party?

Great line!! The answer is a resounding "no".

[NC_Nurse]

6. He's trying to out-paranoid Glenn Beck. I mean, look how much $$$ that guy is

raking in!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. Muslim leaders had alrady denounced the 9/11 attackers - Newt is dumb

Newt should be ashamed of himself and stop using 9/11 for political reasons.

[Enrique]

8. Newt should promise to suspend the 1st Amendment

as long as we're at war with the Islamofascists. We apparently can't afford freedom of religion anymore.

[saltpoint]

9. Jesus.

Newt is using language -- on purpose on purpose on purpose -- which divides groups of people in the country from other groups of people in the country, and for no other reason than his own political gain.

I don't want someone who behaves like that in charge of anything.

[Douglas Carpenter]

10. 'Ground Zero Mosque' Imam Was A Bush-Era Partner For Mideast Peace

Outside of how getting constantly called a radical by American politicians busy flacking the proposed "Ground Zero mosque" for political purposes might affect Rauf's view of what it's like to be a Muslim in America, there's one other big problem with King's and Ros-Lehtinen's accusation: Rauf already represented America in this way, under the Bush Administration.

State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley responded to the accusations Tuesday:

"His work on tolerance and religious diversity is well-known and he brings a moderate perspective to foreign audiences on what it's like to be a practicing Muslim in the United States," State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley said Tuesday. He added that the department's public-diplomacy offices "have a long-term relationship with" Rauf - including during the past Bush administration, when the religious leader undertook a similar speaking tour.

If one were to hearken back to the halcyon days of the Bush Administration, one would remember that, when Bush adviser Karen Hughes was appointed Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, the Bush Administration saw improving America's standing among Muslims abroad as a part of its national security strategy. And, as such, Hughes set up listening tours, attended meetings and worked with interfaith groups that -- shocking, by today's Republican standards -- included actual Muslims.

One of those people was Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.

Contemporary press accounts indicate that Rauf and Hughes were part of the February 2006 U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar. He was part of a delegation that met with her in March 2006 and held a joint press conference. A letter to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in November 2007 indicates that contacts with Hughes and Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns had continued apace.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/ground_zero_mosque_imam_bush_partner_for_peace.php

[Bitwit1234]

11. Why in the double Hell are the media giving this

scum the chance to talk on TV. It seems to me the more of a piece of crud you are the more the media kisses your butt.

[Arkana]

12. I would argue that if we refused to let them build the mosque, the terrorists would win.

We'd be giving al Qaeda exactly what they want--abandonment of our most sacred principles for perceived "security".