Sarah Palin sparks Twitter fight on mosque
By MAGGIE HABERMAN <http://www.politico.com/reporters/MaggieHaberman.html> | 7/18/10 8:00 PM EDT 'Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing,' Sarah Palin tweeted Sunday. Sarah <http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/SarahPalin> Palin, who waded into a New York political fight by endorsing Ann Marie Buerkle in NY-25, is drifting into a decidedly higher-charged battle: The fray over a planned mosque near Ground Zero. "Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing," she tweeted Sunday. The building's planners, the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative, have said it's modeled on religious and community centers such as the YMCA, and that the 13-story, $100 million building would also include an arts center, gym and a swimming pool, as well as a mosque. It would be two blocks away from Ground Zero. The project, which has become an increasingly partisan issue in New <http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/NewYorkCity> York, received a renewed burst of national attention when CBS and NBC rejected an ad from the National Republican Trust PAC that crosscut footage of the 9/11 attacks with the sounds of Muslim prayer. "On Sept. 11, they declared war against us," a narrator says. "And to celebrate that murder of 3,000 Americans, they want to build a monstrous 13-story mosque at ground zero." While a recent poll showed a majority of New Yorkers oppose the plan to build the mosque built near Ground Zero, an aide in Mayor Michael Bloomberg <http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/MichaelBloomberg> 's City Hall hit back at Palin, first tweeting "@SarahPalinUSA mind your business." The aide, policy hand Andrea Batista Schlesinger, followed that up with: "@SarahPalinUSA whose hearts? Racist hearts?" Schlesinger deleted both tweets shortly after posting them. "Andrea was only speaking for herself, and she has the right to her own opinions," said Bloomberg spokesman Stu Loeser. Schlesinger posted threee new tweets Sunday evening, explaining why she wrote, and took down, her Palin response: "Deleted post bc I regretted curt response. But fact is, I believe this city belongs to everyone - and no one more than another" "Unlike @SarahPalinUSA, I was born here grew up here. Was showing off to a visitor today - look at how beautiful and diverse my city is." "I felt pain of 9/11, the trauma. I got through it by believing in my city. Not through fear and hate." Bloomberg has defended the plan for the mosque, arguing that blocking it would impinge on religious freedom, and he's denounced calls to look into the group's funding - led by Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rick <http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/RickLazio> Lazio in a bid to engage his rival, Democrat Andrew <http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/AndrewCuomo> Cuomo - as "un-American." Read more: <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39899.html#ixzz0u9PEIk7v> http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39899.html#ixzz0u9PEIk7v [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
