Faced with growing indications that some Republicans are going to use opposition to the mosque as an election issue, Democrat and New York Governor David Paterson is said to be seeking talks with developers of the “Ground Zero Msoque” in which he will press them to accept an alternative site to calm the issue.
The proposed community center has sparked considerable opposition, which has grown in recent weeks as it has taken on a more political bent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has likened the mosque to letting Nazis “put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum.”
The community center would be built on private land two blocks from Ground Zero. Efforts to have the graffiti covered building at the site declared a “landmark” failed earlier this month, but more lawsuits are underway to block its construction.
President Obama briefly came out in favor of the construction, but quickly backed off when it became clear how unpopular it was. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has also condemned the construction.
The fellow is not only physically blind but he is also mentally blind.
newt Gingrich is asinine!
It is Muslims turn to take a seat at the back of the bus. Mainstream Americans and African Americans support it.
NYC is a parasite on the US economy, so they have to indulge the yokels. Besides a mosque does not fit in the 9-11 theme park they are building there. Sorry Muslims.
You're more or less the opposite of correct. Cities such as New York not only pay for themselves, they pay for other useless Southern and Midwestern places that "need" giant bridges over rivers the bankrolling city-dwellers will never see. NY NEVER gets its taxes back, in fact, it got less in terrorism funds than cities nobody ever heard of in states people would find it hard to place on a map. Just as Milan paves roads in rural Sicily, NY, SF, LA, Chicago, et al, pay for roads in rural Alabama and Kansas and Idaho. You think a state like, say, Montana generates enough wealth to build even a single ribbon of highway? Please.
If NYC split off we'd be a rich little city-state. And in fact that is precisely WHY this city and our admittedly less-than-excellent mayor are NOT indulging the yokels — in fact, we have told them to f*ck off. That center will be built, and the bluster will be forgotten, and New Yorkers will still be bailing out your banks.
new york gets seventy nine cents back for every dollar in taxes paid to the feds most smaller states are getting upwards of two dollars of federal money for ever dollar paid.
so instead of bitching about new york how about you send a check to new york and thank us for supporting your ignorant ass
I am getting so sick and tired of the politicians and mainstream media that have the nefarious distinction of distorting everything for their personal gain, and or complete moronic ignorance, pouring proverbial gas on a small flame: what is being proposed in Manhattan South is neither a 'mosque', nor located at ground zero. It is an Islamic Community Center, and it is more than two blocks from ground zero, not even in sight of those buildings. Further, there is already a mosque there in the general vicinity. This demagoguery to try and score political points and news ratings, using the typical race/cultural and ethnic bating is way more vile than the concept of a religious center in lower Manhattan.
It's not graffiti-covered, the roll-gate is, and it is very old for NY, about 150 years old. So it was a legitimate target for preservation, at least as far as preservation is legitimate. I'll be sad to see it go but I'll be happy to see rightwing nutjobs angered by its existence, and by non-psychotic Muslims just doing their own thing peacefully. Not that it was ever meant to be such a statement, but it will now be. Man will Palin be pissed when they don't unfurl a JIHAD INSIDE banner.
Please find some way to deny the muslim center from being built. whatever precedent gets used to deny that thing WILL be used again next time some yahoo has a problem with any other religiously-themed building proposal. I can't wait to see the megachurch of the flying spaghetti monster debacle on Fox.
You know, up until now I liked David Paterson, AKA, the accidental governor (Spitzer, come back, we forgive you — on second thought stay on MSNBS you rich kid hack) . Except for this and his extra cigarette taxes, and attempt to tax every ounce of sweetened drinks at a nickel per ounce, and his caving into the screwel (school) unions, and… AHHH forget it. This hack is planning on running for something no doubt with this bs.. And we thought we had seen the last of the see no evil guv here in NY.
the mosque is a dumb idea, there are better places to put one.