This mosque mess is not new - the story first broke in 2009

[liberal N proud]

The M$M and the GOP have made this an issue to bait the Democrats and it has worked quite well.

Hook, like and sinker!



Making of a mosque mess

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 17, 2010; 11:13 AM

On Dec. 8, 2009, the New York Times published a story about a planned development in lower Manhattan:

"The building has no sign that hints at its use as a Muslim prayer space, but these modest beginnings point to a far grander vision: an Islamic center near the city's most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero's more unexpected and striking neighbors.

"The location was precisely a key selling point for the group of Muslims who bought the building in July. A presence so close to the World Trade Center, 'where a piece of the wreckage fell,' said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the cleric leading the project, 'sends the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11.'

" 'We want to push back against the extremists,' added Imam Feisal, 61."

The reaction? Nada. Later that month, in fact, conservative radio host Laura Ingraham interviewed the imam's wife on "O'Reilly Factor" and said: "I can't find many people who really have a problem with it. . . . I like what you're trying to do."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/17/AR2010081701473.html?wpisrc=nl_pmheadline

[SoCalDem]

1. Dem leadership------ sucker for Briar Patch politics..

works every time:(

[damntexdem]

2. Well, an effort was made to muddy the floor in 2009.

But the real mess has been made recently, especially when Dem pols remained silent or, worse, started to cave.

[Alameda]

3. and damned Harry joined in!

..........I'm so annoyed with him on this.