GOP's 'Ground Zero Mosque' Rhetoric Prompts Pushback From Muslim-American Republican Operatives

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Sam Stein
GOP's 'Ground Zero Mosque' Rhetoric Prompts Pushback From Muslim-American Republican Operatives
First Posted: 08-16-10 01:50 PM | Updated: 08-16-10 05:10 PM


Concerned about the increasingly hostile tone of the Ground Zero mosque debate, top Muslim and Arab-American Republicans are working behind the scenes to try and tone down their own party's rhetoric.

Organized informally, the group includes officials who served in the Bush administration or have strong ties to GOP leadership. Their concerns are twofold: that there is something fundamentally unconstitutional about opposing the Islamic cultural center and that the tenor of conservatives risks alienating the Muslim and Arab communities (both domestic and abroad) for years to come.

"People like myself... who are hardcore Republicans and have been activists for years, with undoubted credentials on the Republican side, are really outraged by what is going on," said David Ramadan, a prominent Muslim-American conservative operative and a member of the Virginia delegation to the Republican National Convention. "We believe first and foremost in the Constitution. This is not a matter of this mosque or that mosque. This is not a New York mosque issue. It is a Constitutional issue.... This is absolutely unacceptable."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/gops-ground-zero-mosque-r_n_683509.html

[RandomThoughts]

1. What are the Republicans going to do

when they attack Senator Reid on an issue and attack President Obama on an issue and have to do it with opposite positions?

[AlinPA]

2. They should ask the republican leadership why they are not pushing to tear down the mosques a few

blocks away.

[jaxx]

3. I saw the protesters on tv......they are frenzied.

It's insane, it's ugly and it destroys the Constitution for them to demand some group give up their rights because they tell them to.

What is this country coming to?

[Chulanowa]

4. Better late than never, guys

Maybe Clayton Bigsby can help 'em out!

[Uzybone]

5. chickens for KFC are usually ignored by Col Sanders

working behind the scenes my ass.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Perfect analogy. Chickens for Col Sanders.

[tanyev]

6. Psst...Mr. Ramadan! You are finally seeing the true face of the Republican party.

You might want to get out now, before it gets even worse.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Muslim-American Republican: another mindboggling oxymoron like

African American Republican or Hispanic Republican.
I just do not get it.

[Nancy Waterman]

9. To paraphrase Harry Reid

“I don't know how anyone of Muslim heritage could be a Republican.”
(Insert African American, Gay, Hispanic for Muslim. They all would fit.)

[calimary]

10. Or the Log Cabin republi-CONS.

Yeah SUUUUUUUURE, like they're ever gonna make room for gays in that abomination of a political party, either.

:eyes:

They don't want their country BACK. They want their country BACKWARDS!!!!!

[Arkana]

11. That pisses me off more than anything else.

It's not their country to take back--it's as much ours as it is theirs.

[calimary]

14. No kidding!

And furthermore, it's OUR flag, too!

[ShadowLiberal]

12. It's stuff like this that lost the Muslim American vote for the GOP overnight

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. OMG the SAudi could pull out of News Corporation and Fox News could be sold?

HOly Moly!