New York – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday compared the mosque planned to go up blocks away from ground zero in New York to Nazis protesting next to the Holocaust museum.
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Gingrich highlighted the fact that New York Democratic Gov. David Paterson and numerous others have proposed alternative locations for the mosque in arguing that the leaders of the cultural center are “radical Islamists” who want to prove that “they can build a mosque next to a place where 3,000 Americans were killed by Islamists.”
“That’s why they won’t accept any other offer,” he said during an interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.”
Gingrich then declared that if the mosque is indeed being built as a symbol, which its leaders have repeatedly denied, New York authorities have every right to prevent it from being built.
“We ought to be honest about the fact that we have a right and this happens all the time in America,” he said.
“Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington,” Gingrich insisted, speaking of the museum where just a year ago a guard was killed by a white supremacist trying to enter the building with a gun.
Gingrich then went on to claim that “we would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor.”
“There is no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center,” he said.
Wow! There are still politicians with brains in their heads.
newt go we need strong leadership run for office
finally, someone with ………
He’s not belittling Islam, he’s belittling the holocaust.
A dirty game.
To #4 : You, sir, are an idiot
#4 ..he’s not belittling anything, mr head in the sand. Its the islamists like CAIR, MB, etc who are playing games against the west and with the help of such leftists etc like you they will succeed
Hopefully we will see Mr. Gingrich run for the White House in 2012. He is a wise conservative, an outspoken ally of Israel and has always supported Jewish values. Additionally he has what it takes to put this country back on the right track.
How about a memorial for Timothy McVey at the FBI building in Oklahoma!
People have to be very careful about how we react to the mosque and the words we use to compare them to Nazis. American Muslims are very well integrated into our society and we should not make them feel like 2nd class citizens. By reacting like the right-wing leaders have, we will only encourage MORE young Muslims to feel unwelcome, and hated. Let’s not play into radical imams hands by alienating normal Muslim Americans.
Ground zero mosque is not the only mosque that people object. Sheepshed Bay, Staten Island and Bay Ridge residents all protest building mosques in their neighborhoods. At some point we have to stop this crazy diatribe against all Muslim communities in the U.S. We are only creating more future terrorists by overreacting like this.
#4 …couldnt be a better analogy
To # 9
What you’re saying makes a lot of sense, but can you blame Americans for that.
“Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all the terrorists were Muslims”
#9 ‘,mr enlightened yid’…and why didnt 100,000rds of thousand muslims demonstrate all over the globe against the atrosities perpetuated in the name of islam??..when one group wanted to do so barely 50 people showed up..we have a klall ‘midechzo velo michi shmamina niche lei’
When I first heard of the plans for the mosque, and of the emotions it evoked, I immediately drew a paralel to the hypothesis of a Libyan consulate being built on or near the site of where the Pan-Am plane went down in Lockerbie, Scotland. The outcry would undoubtedly be enormous.
#9 . Sometimes I think there is a finite number of points that liberals can memorize, so they keep applying them in all their arguments. One of those points is that muslims commit their beastly acts because they were not “welcome”.
Gingrich makes a stupid argument. Xians (specifically) have slaughtered millions of Muslims through the years. Yet you don’t see them blocking churches from being built in Jordan. He again shows himself to be a stupid man.
Mr Gingrich should be aware that his fellow xians have built plenty of churches on top of Jewish graves after slaughtering all the Jews. On the old Jewish cemetery in Pacanow the CHURCH built a warehouse. On the cemetery between Pacanow and Stopnica they put up a giant tzelem and a huge church…. right on top of the graves of the people they slaughtered!
Mr. Gingrich is, himself, a supporter of (or minimally ambivalent to) the very practice he claims to be against here.
History shows us that there are those react out of emotion and without logic or facts. THAT kind of thinking led the Germans down their path. Hatred and extreme emotion will do that. We are a nation of fundamental RIGHTS and LAWS to uphold them. One of which is religious freedom.
His comparison to Nazis doesn’t hold up. Had Al Quaeda wanted to build a Mosque that would be comparable. Had a Catholic church been built by Aushwitz, that would be comparable… oh wait… it was…
This remark is just plain stupid. Nazi represents elimination of Jews. The Muslim religion is a legitimate religion and their people have every right to build wherever they want.
Everybody understands that it’s an emotional issue, and the leaders should be encouraged to go somewhere else but we cannot refuse them since we are a free country.
#16 the same kind of sense you have ..excluding the rest sane posters
To # 9
What you’re saying makes a lot of sense, but can you blame Americans for that.
“Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all the terrorists were Muslims”
To # 11
Yes like the ones that Attacked the USS Liberty, in International water.
We know who the terrorists are, and there days are numbered.
#21 …the founders of this country are turning over in thier graves seeing what anti bible liberal suicidal country its become, so hack nit kein cheinik with the founding fathers
Its a shame that newt makes the holocaust so cheap we need to condemn him for this
I used to like him but I start seeing his real face
And no we had enough of bill clinton in the white house we don’t need another adulter who dumped his wives a few times when he finds younger ones plus always has out of marriage relationships
#20 Says:…. again your comments go in two different directions. The last two lines of your post calling those who attacked the USS Liberty terrorists are very interesting. My take on what you are saying is that Israel committed a terrorist act in what is believed to be a tragic accident/mistake during the June 1967 war.
Why are we being blinded??? It is so simple- 1- why don’t they want to move to state owned land?
2-why are they not letting us know where there moneys coming from? 2 strong argument points!!! Maybe according to law they have freedom of religion, but If this building is built, americans are gonna be building a huge church over were this mosque is going to be built!!!!
#25 seeeec #22 ..it is brain dead liberal diseased minds that are bringing this country under..nebech bush ‘horrific’ patriot’ act. its just neauseates me postes like yours