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Palin triggers NY mosque Twitter fray (Bloomberg aide pulled race card on Palin)
Politico ^ | Sunday July 18, 2010 | MAGGIE HABERMAN
Posted on Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:25:08 PM by Bigtigermike
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.
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 a call was placed to city hall asking for comment on them
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The responses (I really loved the part about the "hose and buggy":
To: Bigtigermike
I’ve seen the ad “Muslims For Peace” on a few buses in Brooklyn. Every time I see them, I scoff because I know it’s not true.
2 posted on Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:26:26 PM by wastedyears (The Founders revolted for less.)
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To: Bigtigermike
Muslims is a race??
3 posted on Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:27:31 PM by alecqss
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To: Bigtigermike
Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand
Yes, all TWO of you, please LISTEN UP!
5 posted on Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:35:28 PM by Thane_Banquo (Mitt Romney: He's from Harvard, and he's here to help.)
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To: wastedyears
Article of Faith for Muslims, JIHAD. Article of faith for Catholics, Eucharist. Article of Faith of Baptists...water baptism, Article of Faith of Pentecostals, speaking in tongues. Article of Faith for Amish, Hose and buggy. They couldn’t be MUSLIMS if they deny JIHAD.
6 posted on Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:36:38 PM by rovenstinez