Newt Gingrich says he’s opposed to a planned mosque near ground zero in New York City.
The former House speaker and possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate posted a statement on his website Wednesday, saying there should be no Muslim house of worship at the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Three thousand people died that day at the hands of what Gingrich called “jihadists.”
Gingrich is just the latest national Republican leader to speak out against the mosque. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin announced her opposition last Sunday, calling the project an unnecessary provocation.
The mosque is a project of the nonprofit Cordoba Initiative, which claims to promote understanding between Islam and the west.
A community board overwhelmingly voted to back the project last spring.
(Source: NBC New York)
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That’s the least Gingrich can say since he is partially responsible for 9/11.
It was back in the 90’s that his Contract with Himself was criticized for cutting back funds “so drastically” from our security agencies, that they would be “dangerously” understaffed.
“They used to chase guys like him with nets. Now they use television cameras.” ~ Spiro T Agnew
It is abominable that a mosque is permitted to be built there, especially.
Go mosque go mosque just sit back and watch the show how dome the people of new york are, to letyou a bunch of killers to build a terror house were somany of our wounderfull people were killed by these mosque going killers