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August 11, 2010
U.S. sending Ground Zero imam to Mideast
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The U.S. State Department is sending the imam at the center of plans for a mosque near Ground Zero on an outreach trip to the Middle East.
Feisal Abdul Rauf will visit Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to promote religious tolerance and discuss Muslim life in America. Rauf is behind controversial plans to build a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
According to CNN, U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs committee, and Peter King (R-N.Y.), ranking member of the Homeland Security committee, said taxpayers should not have to fund the trip, which they called “unacceptable.”
“The State Department’s selection of Feisal Abdul Rauf to represent the American people through this program further calls into question the administration’s policy and funding priorities,” they reportedly said in a statement.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said it is Rauf’s third such trip, and that it was planned before the imam developed plans for the mosque.
“We have a long-term relationship with him,” Crowley told reporters Tuesday at the State Department. “His work on tolerance and religious diversity is well known, and he brings a moderate perspective to foreign audiences on what it’s like to be a practicing Muslim in the United States.”
Crowley said the trip is one of about 1,200 similar programs. He said Rauf would not be allowed to raise funds on the trip.
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Every Muslim on the planet is aware of the controversy surrounding the building of the mosque near the site of the destroyed World Trade Center. A refusal by the American government would cause riots by Muslims in every city. Churches and Synagogues could be destroyed. It is best to quell the flames of hatred by letting them choose the location of their new mosque.
- Comment by morris wise on 8/14/10 at 6:48 pm
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Barack Hussein Obama, a supected radical Muslim- Marxist is a traitor to Western democracy and freedom, and Judeo-Christian civilization! Now he’s promoting the Ground Zero mega-million mosque, of dubious funding background - what more will this White house hijacker do to further insult and attack modern America and its Judeo-Christian heritage and roots, including the mostly non-muslim American victims of Sept 11, mass murdered due to Islam? The so-called peaceful imam cannot even have the decency to debate openly with Americans especially with the victims of Islamic terrorism of Sept 11 of G.Zero; and this arrogant man is supposed to represent all Muslims in America? Pathetic!