Newt on Ground Zero mosque: we should be more like Saudi Arabia

[Enrique]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/gingrich_on_ground_zero_mosque_we_should_be_more_l.php

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the latest to weigh in on the controversial plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero, posting a statement on his website yesterday laying out this ultimatum: "There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia."

As we've reported, right-wingers have been freaking out about plans to build the Cordoba House, a Muslim community center, near Ground Zero.

Gingrich is the latest to speak out against the plan, writing that "the time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over."

He was also clear about who else is at fault for allowing these plans: "Sadly, too many of our elites are the willing apologists for those who would destroy them if they could. No mosque. No self deception. No surrender. The time to take a stand is now - at this site on this issue."

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