I am shocked. Absolutely shocked.
President Obama comes out in support of Ground Zero mosque
By SALLY GOLDENBERG and CARL CAMPANILE
President Obama strongly backed the mosque planned near Ground Zero as he celebrated Ramadan with Muslim Americans at the White House – saying it shows that America’s commitment to to religious tolerance is “unshakeable.”
“Let me be clear: 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,” Obama said in his first comments on the controversy.
“This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government is essential to who we are. The writ of our Founders must endure,” Obama told those in attendance at the White House Iftar dinner.
The president acknowledged the controversy that has been raging since plans for the mosque and community center were announced.
“Now, we must all recognize and respect the sensitivities surrounding the development of lower Manhattan,” he said.
“The 9/11 attacks were a deeply traumatic event for our country. The pain and suffering experienced by those who lost loved one is unimaginable. So I understand the emotions that this issue engenders.”
“Ground Zero,” Obama said, “is, indeed, hallowed ground.”
Before tonight’s announcement, White House officials had repeatedly deflected questions on whether a mosque should be located a few blocks from the World Trade Center site, calling the matter solely a local one.
Obama’s support for the project comes as a big boost to Mayor Bloomberg, who has emerged as the mosque’s biggest defender against a firestorm of criticism from some 9/11 family members, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, as well as the Anti-Defamation League.
“I applaud President Obama’s clarion defense of the freedom of religion,” Bloomberg said.
Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island), a leading opponent of the mosque, accused Obama of caving into “political correctness.”
“President Obama is wrong. It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim community to build a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero,” King said.
“The right and moral thing for President Obama to have done was to urge Muslim leaders to respect the families of those who died and move their mosque away from Ground Zero.”
Polls have shown that New Yorkers are overwhelmingly opposed putting a mosque near the World Trade Center site.
During his dinner remarks, Obama stressed that Americans must separate al Qaeda and Islamic terrorists from the overwhelming majority of peace loving Muslims.
“Our enemies respect no freedom of religion. Al Qaeda’s cause is not Islam — it is a gross distortion of Islam,” he said.
“These are not religious leaders – these are terrorists who murder innocent men, women and children. In fact, Al Qaeda has killed more Muslims that people of any other religion – and that list of victims includes innocent Muslims who were killed on 9/11,” Obama added. }} more…
I’m not shocked at all Lawrence…this is merely Obumble confirming the worst-kept secret in the history of this country:
Ready?
Okay, here it is…HE’S A MUSLIM!!!!!! Yep, he’s a Muslim….MUSLIM, MUSLIM, MUSLIM!!!!
I’m picturing the routine from the last Austin Powers movie in my head right now…
MMMMMMUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSLIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!
Muslim.
MOOO-slim!
If he gains any weight, will that make him a Mus-fat?
Muslimmuslimmuslim….
muslim.
MUSLIM!!
I’m having a Mus-gasm.
Hahahahahahahahaha….and I thought Burt Reynold’s toupee was the worst-kept secret. Not any more! MUSLIM!
If he gets muddy, that would make him Mu-slime.
heeheeheee….If this doesn’t put the final nail in his political coffin I don’t know what will.
ooh, I need some decaf…huh huh huh…
Muslim!
Dearest William,
My artificial shock was an attempt at sarcasm.
I know your upset at not being invited to the iftar feast at the White House.
Has anyone ever checked the official menus they release for White House dinners to see if any pig meat is ever served.
If the prez is a proper Christian like he says he should be doing some hog chomping.
If not it’s further proof he is actually the Imam-in-Chief.
“I know your upset at not being invited to the iftar feast at the White House.”
(haha) Ya got me Lawrence…yes, I’m terribly disappointed. Heartbroken, even. Distraught beyond belief…aw shit, I can’t even make myself believe it. No I’m not. MUSLIM!
The serious answer is yes, I knew you were being sarcastic. I just couldn’t help myself—I needed the humor.
The only supposed Christian in the world I know who prefers his adopted islamic name over his Christian name is obammy (Barry Soetoro).
I rest my case.
And I have a better idea than the gay bar.
We know our idiot politicians will let the mosque be built.
So…
Once we have the address, let’s all send them some pork via FedEx, UPS, and the US Mail every f**king day. When closed at night, lets drop a few hog heads on their stoop. Let’s smear bacon grease all over their doors so they have to replace them daily.
BLT anyone?
My preference is the Slim Jim.
You know when a Christian converts to Judaism or islam they take an arab or Hebrew name to signify a new life and a new beginning.
When a jew converts to Christianity they very often change their name. so why does a supposed Christian have not a Christian Arab name but an arab muslim name? Specifically hussein.
Lance, I’ve heard many people talk about dropping hogs blood and hogs head on this place, which I still hold out hope will not be built. If you got caught doing this, however, and you know they will have cameras galore, you might be prosecuted for at minimum, littering, at worse, threatening them.
But your idea of sending them packages of pork through the mail is brilliant. I believe we are allowed to send places of warship, gifts? I don’t think there is a law against that.
So yes, count me in: I will do my part of sending pork products, as gifts, to this monuement of evil.
Bloomberg makes me sick. When are politicians going to learn something about pisslam and see it for what it is: a political ideology bent on domination and destruction of anyone who is not as low life as they are?
Never mind Bloomberg…he proved himself a total dud within a few months of taking office. Guiliani is probably punching himself in the balls for having made such a dumb move as to turn over the reins of power to this dribbling idiot…
What really concerns me is—where are all the outraged Noo Yawkers? I’ve never really liked that city, although I DO have a certain respect for the power that it commands. But where are all the families of the ones who died, standing up in boisterous and vocal dissent to this move?
Are they just simply so benumbed that they can’t act anymore, or has the NYC freshwater system been spiked with kool-aid? Bloomberg may be the mayor, but he still answers to the will of the people—albeit not very much, but still…
The planning commission has pissed in the face of the people who overwhelmingly don’t want the Cordoba House in lower Manhattan .
As for the libtards who run the media, you can guess how they spin it.
Instead of a gay bar next door there should be a slaughter house for pork processing, burning offal up wind.
I’d give my left gonad to be back in the Cavalry right now. I dream of double tapping muslim noggins. There is only one way to deal with the hold Islam has on these camel humpers — kill them. There is NO reforming them. It would be like reforming Nazis or worse.
As for Ground Zero and the mosque, I think the camel-humpers in all their hubris are making a huge mistake. Instead of being dispersed into the population with some anonymity, this mosque and others will be places plagued with folks taking potshots at them. I can see it now. They pour into the streets to worship and somebody comes barreling down at them with a snow plow mounted on a deuce-and-a-half.
Where’s Timothy McVeigh when you need him?
Old “Deuces” tend to make up most of the existing snowplow order-of-battle in this country Lance…don’t think it’ll be a problem.
McVeigh was a rabid animal. Rabid animals can’t be controlled; he might have been good initially but once you let him off his leash you would never have gotten him back on it. I’ll grant that the distance between “professional stone-cold calculating killer” and “rabid animal” is pretty short, but McVeigh would ultimately have worked against us. I don’t miss him, and would have been happy to push the needle in him myself.
As for the mosque…they’ve got to get their power, heat, and water from somewhere…think about that and let the idea sink in for a bit.
Second thought: A double-tap is always nice, but I personally have tended to derive greater satisfaction from getting inside the baddies’ heads and ripping out all the wiring with my bare hands.
I make an exception here for Osama bin Laden. THAT asshole needs to die in full view of the CNN cameras, on his knees, screaming for whatever god that will take him, and blood pouring from every bodily orifice. Hell will seem like a mercy by the time I get done with him.
One more idea: How about placing an all armed forces recruiting station right next door to the mosque? This way, all prospective enlisters can get a good look at the kinds of fuckers they’ll be soon killing for a living.
I’ll second that idea…in a big way.
How about we get a petition started? Let’s do our own subversive activity—seeing as protesting anything Islam is considered subversive these days. Start at the street level and work up. Ideally we want to get the newspapers involved; this would be a herculean effort in itself, as the media is attached to Obumble’s dick like a lamprey eel. But if they’re truly going to tout themselves as exercising freedom of speech, the NYT is going to HAVE to let us publish our petition.
While we’re at it, start combing through the existing personnel rosters inside the standing services. The perfect staff for this job should include people with intel backgrounds combined with some time in cav or infantry. The Army would be perfect for this; folks change MOS’s at least once or twice in their careers (provided they stay in long enough). The Chair Force would be able to provide the latte’s and doughnuts. (Hey, I like the USAF—generally good group of folks—but they’ve fallen a long way from the good ol’ days of Yeager and Gen. Lemay. Somebody needs to give these guys their balls back.) Get the Marines in there; the Devil Dawgs won’t even try to disguise their complete disgust for their next-door neighbors.
Don’t know what to do with the USN or the Coast Guard. I’ve got a HUGE amount of respect for the Coasties, but this is a land battle…and that puts the “Knee-Deeps” somewhat out of their element.
As I type this, however, I’m getting a thought—put the Coasties to work down at the docks. The hajjis have gotta get on or off lower Manhattan somehow…at least with the Coasties on the job, the water will be covered.
I was recruited into Intelligence first and later reclassified/retrained in RECON as a Cav Scout.
Well, there ya go. Feel like a trip to NYC?
Or we could be accomodating and distribute Qur’ans into every toilet bowl in the mosque…like the Gideons do with bibles.
And there is no doubt that the Intel community will have their inside peeps posing as Muslims to keep an eye and ear on the camel-humpers.
What does the Moroccan city of Casablanca have to do with gambling and all of this ?
Go back to sleep baygon…yeesh.
William, me thinks baygon done went.
baygon often has trouble understanding simple concepts or answering questions when busy gobbling haji’s sausage.