A major political clash is brewing in New York over a planned mosque near Ground Zero, with Republicans demanding an investigation into the mosque’s funding and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg calling such a probe “un-American.”
Long Island Rep. Peter King, the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, wants a probe of the $100 million project, as does GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio.
“That just is so out of character for what this nation stands for,” Bloomberg said at a Monday (July 12) press conference.
Offhand it seems unlikely that New York Muslims who will be worshipping in the mosque have had a fund-raiser and come up with $100 million from their own pockets. It is not illegal in most cases for mosques to be built and imams trained and funded by radical Saudis. It is also not unreasonable for the neighbors to want to know that.
I wonder when NASA when be scheduling outreach seminars at the new facility?
It is also not unreasonable for the neighbors to demand that mosques not be built, [i]especially in New York City.[/i]
Wait a minute..why would Republicans–you know, get the government off my back Republicans–interfere with a private development on privately owned land? The site is a former Burlington Coat Factory. Or is religious liberty suspended when something is “near ground zero”? If so, better demolish Trinity Wall Street.
Eric Rudolph was a professed Christian at the time of the Atlanta Olympic bombing. Ought we not ban Christian churches “near” Centennial Park?