Palin vs. Muslims

[BerenTebogo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/201...politico/39899

Sarah Palin, who waded into a New York political fight by endorsing Ann Marie Buerkle in NY-25, is drifting into a decidedly higher-charged battle: The fray over a planned mosque near Ground Zero.

"Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing," she tweeted Sunday.

The building’s planners, the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative, have said it’s modeled on religious and community centers such as the YMCA, and that the 13-story, $100 million building would also include an arts center, gym and a swimming pool, as well as a mosque. It would be two blocks away from Ground Zero.

The project, which has become an increasingly partisan issue in New York, received a renewed burst of national attention when CBS and NBC rejected an ad from the National Republican Trust PAC that crosscut footage of the 9/11 attacks with the sounds of Muslim prayer.

"On Sept. 11, they declared war against us," a narrator says. "And to celebrate that murder of 3,000 Americans, they want to build a monstrous 13-story mosque at ground zero."

While a recent poll showed a majority of New Yorkers oppose the plan to build the mosque built near Ground Zero, an aide in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's City Hall hit back at Palin, first tweeting “@SarahPalinUSA mind your business."

The aide, policy hand Andrea Batista Schlesinger, followed that up with:

"@SarahPalinUSA whose hearts? Racist hearts?"

Schlesinger deleted both tweets shortly after posting them.

"Andrea was only speaking for herself, and she has the right to her own opinions," said Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser.

Schlesinger posted threee new tweets Sunday evening, explaining why she wrote, and took down, her Palin response:

"Deleted post bc I regretted curt response. But fact is, I believe this city belongs to everyone - and no one more than another"

"Unlike @SarahPalinUSA, I was born here grew up here. Was showing off to a visitor today - look at how beautiful and diverse my city is."

"I felt pain of 9/11, the trauma. I got through it by believing in my city. Not through fear and hate."

Bloomberg has defended the plan for the mosque, arguing that blocking it would impinge on religious freedom, and he's denounced calls to look into the group's funding – led by Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio in a bid to engage his rival, Democrat Andrew Cuomo — as "un-American."

Clarification: An earlier version of this story stated that Schlesinger deleted her tweets soon after a reporter called City Hall for comment. It was edited to clarify that no relationship between the two events was implied.

Twitter: ruining America for Americans one day at a time.

Also, opinion based comment about Sarah Palin here.

[Meian]

It's 2 blocks away from Ground Zero isn't it? They'd think 2 blocks was right next to it or something...

Saw this on CNN a while ago regarding the Mosque and the reasons I heard for not building it were outrageous such as "It is a monument to terrorism"

Hilarious

[Yabby]

Hopefully she will dress up like Mohamed to really piss them off.

[OWS_Tonx]

Hopefully she will dress up like Mohamed to really piss them off.

lol. Palin is such a dumbass.

[Neosutra]

I don't often believe in assassination, but in her case I'd make an exception. There is just a level of stupid you cant fix.

[Pringles]

Palin sure was hot in that documentary of her on the campaign trail when she hooked up with those two russian guys and Hillary Clinton and Condy rice. I say let her voice her opinions!

[OWS_Tonx]

She's a milf for sure, but goddamn she was dropped on her head as a child or something.

[Andarvi]

Love the distinction of "peace-seeking Muslims," as if the contrary is a real issue domestically in this country.

[BerenTebogo]

I seriously do not understand why any person in a position of responsibility or power uses twitter.

I mean, honestly, with the entire world looking at you all the time, aren't spur-of-the-moment statements and opinions completely contradictory to the message you want to be getting across normally?

Shit is fucking stupid and should be banned from society, but at the very least offices need to have restrictions on shit like this, really. Honestly, a Mayor's aide shouldn't be publicly arguing with a former-almost vice president without the Mayors express approval. She represents the office as a whole as long as she works there and, stupid comment by Palin or not, the "re-tweet (what the fuck, seriously)" can be used to attack the Mayor and the office as a whole.

Shit is really, really fucking stupid.

[BerenTebogo]

Also, yeah, I agree with everything in this thread so far. I'm just saying that the repubs are going to use this aide to chum the water and before you know it Glenn Beck will be calling for Texas to invade New York for Americuuuuuuh.

[Bluefrostie]

So, would building a church on the site be ok? How about a synagogue?

[Mizango]

My issue with the whole thing is how is putting a Mosque there any more offensive than putting a Church there? I mean seriously. There are extremists in every religion, take the Hutaree group from Michigan earlier this year or the Christian white knights, better known as the Ku Klux Klan. I mean they like to distance themselves from these groups, yet like to lump Muslims into the same group?

Such bullshit. Fuck Palin and fuck anyone that supports her in any form or fashion.

[Mizango]

Love the distinction of "peace-seeking Muslims," as if the contrary is a real issue domestically in this country.

Yeah that had me definitely shaking my head.

[Andarvi]

I'd still crush it though.

[BerenTebogo]

My issue with the whole thing is how is putting a Mosque there any more offensive than putting a Church there? I mean seriously. There are extremists in every religion, take the Hutaree group from Michigan earlier this year or the Christian white knights, better known as the Ku Klux Klan. I mean they like to distance themselves from these groups, yet like to lump Muslims into the same group?

Such bullshit. Fuck Palin and fuck anyone that supports her in any form or fashion.

But...but....but...America!

You don't care about America! God only loves America! He hates fags and muslims and mosques!

[Mizango]

But...but....but...America!

You don't care about America! God only loves America! He hates fags and muslims and mosques!

WESTBORO 4LIFE!

[isladar]

So, would building a church on the site be ok? How about a synagogue?

Two blocks away, kiddo.

But really, how on EARTH are people supposed to deal with something like a mosque on such a sacred, history-laden spo-- oh.

[Mizango]

Two blocks away, kiddo.

But really, how on EARTH are people supposed to deal with something like a mosque on such a sacred, history-laden spo-- oh.

lol I thought the same thing.

[Olo401]

I don't see what the big deal is..

But then again, I'm not a bigoted moron from nowhere, Alaska.

[zoobernut]

This was on the news this morning. The interesting thing that they talked about was the fact that there will be no Mosque built there. It isn't a Mosque it was never intended to be a Mosque. The people organizing it said (this might just be them trying to calm down the crazies) it is a Muslim community center that will be open to everyone and it will have a "Prayer room" for use by any religion.


But even if it was a Mosque this sort of uninformed ignorant stupidity really makes me shake my head.