Gov: Can We Cut the "Ground Zero Mosque" Crap for 1 Week?

AP/Seth Wenig

Governor Paterson has had it up to here with all the arguing about the Islamic community center and mosque planned for Lower Manhattan. Yesterday he all but begged everyone to just drop it for the next week, out of respect for 9/11, the Jewish New Year, and Ramadan. Of course, Paterson's request for a moratorium has nothing to do with the upcoming primary elections, he simply wants one lousy "week of peace." Is that so much to ask? The governor told reporters:

The greater issue involving this situation is how can we bring New York's people back together and I propose that perhaps in light of the fact that Rosh Hashanah is this week, the Jewish New Year, that the celebration of Ramadan is coming at the end of the week and that we should all be focused on our concern to those who lost relatives [on] Sept. 11. Perhaps we might think more in terms of supporting those families who are on both sides of this issue as all of us are and maybe all step back and try to devote a week of peace.

According to the Daily News, Paterson has made a personal pledge not to talk about the issue for one week "just to see if this exercise would help New Yorkers and Americans remember that the terrorists didn't care who we were when they attacked us and we should think a lot about the fact that in many ways, we were all victims." However, Paterson stopped short of proposing a "ground zero mosque" swear jar.

It's unclear how many politicians and protesters will follow the governor's lead and take a time out. Last week relatives of some New Yorkers who died in the World Trade Center called on mosque opponents to cancel a major demonstration planned for 9/11. But one of the protest's organizers, blogger Pamela Geller, is refusing to reschedule. "I would have canceled the rally, but due to the large number of family members who have contacted me and asked us to help them speak out for their loved ones and give them a voice to express their opinions, in all good conscience I could not postpone the rally," Geller said in a statement. So far, it looks like Paterson's the only one who won't be talking about the mosque this week (besides the rest of the Democrats).

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By John Del Signore in News on September 7, 2010 9:46 AM

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John L

The more I hear and see Paterson the more convinced I am that he could've been a great governor too bad the Democrats totally disgraced him to make way for their anointed leader King Cuomo II. And where's Cuomo, still hiding, still not taking a stance on anything, what a leader.

snickerdoodle

Finally, the Gov says something that makes sense.

Too bad he's still a plonker.

BDS=(Boycott.Divest.Sanction)

imo, the most important thing about the community center rukus is to understand the motives behind the people funding the protests against it. what is the agenda begind formenting American anger towards muslims? Here is an important article from jta...

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/09/04/2740796/major-pro-israel-giver-funds-jihad-watch

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Jihad Watch, which is organizing a rally against the planned Islamic center timed for the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks -- the center is planned for within three blocks of the site of the attacks in lower Manhattan -- is funded by the Freedom Center, a conservative group based in Los Angeles.

An investigative report on the online version of Politico on Saturday said it confirmed that the "lion's share" of the $920,000 funneled through the Freedom Center to Jihad Watch over the last three years originated with Joyce Chernick.

Aubrey and Joyce Chernick, Politico reported, over the years have contributed to, among other groups, the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles; the Anti-Defamation League; the Zionist Organization of America; MEMRI, a group that distributes translations of inflammatory Arabic language material; the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a group that tracks what it depicts as the threat of radical Islam; the American Jewish Congress; CAMERA, a group that tracks what it says is anti-Israel bias in the media; the Central Fund for Israel, a clearinghouse for monies directed to pro-settler groups; and a number of conservative think tanks.

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Kelles

No! We can't stop talking about it because we haven't exhausted all our Mosque news combinations/permutations.

potsmoker

Mosque gets all the press, but area near Ground Zero full of bars, porn, liquor stores, salons.

Ill be praying at the "Holy" Pussycat Lounge tonight.

potsmoker

Feisal Abdul Rauf also heads up the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) which enjoys a partnership with the Cordoba Initiative and provided $100 million to secure the site close to ground zero for the mosque to be built.

That $100 million came directly from the back pockets of ASMA’s financial backers.

According to ASMA’s website they include the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers, Rockefeller Philanthropy, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund – essentially the tip of the pyramid of the international globalist elite.

kevd

Bilderberg Group. Rothschilds!

TRANSAMERICA SUPERHIGHWAY! AMERO!

potsmoker

This story is a perfect microcosm of the new world order agenda.

The mainstream media continues to push the mosque story hour after hour, day after day, from the perspective of both the left and the right, manufacturing a controversy that plays on a now indentured fear of Islam that has been cooked up over the last nine years via endless phony “muslim” terror plots and concocted “al qaeda” threats.

cofsnowdon

"Upcoming Muslim holiday of Ramadan" ?? Do your research. Eid ul-Fitr, which celebrates the end of the month of Ramadan.

grandzu

Which unfortunately, due to the lunar calendar, might fall on 9/11 this year.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

LOL, time to protest them to move their holiday since it offends some people. :D

seaanemoneman

Of course, not talking about it is basically the same thing as siding with proponents.

(Of which I am one. So, I agree that this is a smart move. It should be a nonissue, therefore critics and critiques should not even be addressed.)