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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[Ganja Ninja]

1. Don't they stone adulterers?

:think:

[Enrique]

3. ha! good point, he might want to re-think

but you know I think Newt might do ok in S.A. His wives might bear the brunt of their morality enforcement.

[BrklynLiberal]

14. oops Newt. Better rethink your point......

[PearliePoo2]

2. More like Saudi Arabia..really?

What's next then Newtie? The stoning of women and chopping off of hands? Idiot

[Scurrilous]

4. @#$% Newt.

:P

[eShirl]

5. Maybe he should go live there and stop trying to screw this country up any further.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Saudi Arabia has a ruling family kept in power by an American mercenary company

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Vinnell_Corporation

Vinnell Corporation

From SourceWatch

Vinnell Corporation, a Northrop Grumman Company, founded in 1931, performs services for governments, international agencies, US military and private clients, including Oman, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. On May 12, 2003, it was targeted for attack by terrorists in Saudi Arabia.

Vinnell's corporate headquarters, in Fairfax, Virginia, provides the operational base for marketing and for financial, personnel, data, and project management. Logistics, procurement and transportation support for Vinnell's overseas operations is provided by Logistics and Transportation Services, Inc. (LTSI), a Vinnell subsidiary in Baltimore, Maryland.

Vinnell has undertaken projects in over fifty countries on five continents, includi operational and logistics support, facilities and grounds maintenance, training, freight forwarding, and subcontract management. It provides technical services and training programs for multi-national military organizations, power production, and industrial facilities. Important Department of Defense contracts include the operation, maintenance, and caretaker services for the US Air Force at three air bases in Oman and the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) Modernization Program which has been entrusted to Vinnell for over 12 years. A multi-million dollar company, Vinnell also carries out the Turkey Base Maintenance Contract (TBMC).
Source: http://www.vbr-turkey.com/mainpages/history.htm

[Urban Prairie]

7. Only Islamic extremist leaders publicly advocate aggression.

As do hypocrite Christian extremist "leaders", like Newt and those of his ilk. This delusional jackass must really believe that his God will condemn all Muslims to hell, because they do not share the same beliefs that he has.

If Newt is a devout Catholic, then he was taught about and preached to from the same Bible as I was as a child, and he very well knows that he is ignoring the most basic tenets of his faith, and advocating the persecution of Muslims who are US citizens, by being opposed to permitting those belonging to a recognized, peaceful, and legitimate faith (that is practiced by over a billion followers worldwide) to legally build a place of worship anywhere in this country.

Gingrich panders to and subtly encourages aggressive behavior by the same types of violence-prone, lunatic-fringe zealots as those that he accuses of being.

[prolesunited]

8. Why does Newt hate America

and everything it stands for?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. So let's see. We should be dictatorship which oppresses women and hates jewish people.

We should also be more like the country which financed the largest terrorist attach on this country. GOT IT! See, using right wing logic and techniques can be fun. I expect that this is what I'll read in every newspaper in the country and the networks will blabber endlessly about it, right?

[BlueIdaho]

10. And there goes his presidential bid.

Poor Newt, it's always two steps forward, three steps back for that little serial adulterer. Headline reads "I want America to be more like Saudi Arabia." now he has to try and explain that insane notion. In politics, when you are explaining, you are losing.

What an idiot.

[Enrique]

11. it might play well in the primaries

the GOP base loves theocracy and repression.

[BlueIdaho]

20. Yeah but only if it's Christian theocracy and repression...

They are a funny lot.

[blm]

12. Newt: We should be more like Saudi Arabia and less like America. Exactly what Bushes intended.

Yes...The fascists pushing the New World Order down our throats the last 40 years are still given all the news coverage they want. Corpmedia will NEVER CALL OUT the BushInc mouthpieces for their anti-Americanism.

[progressoid]

13. Yeah Newt. Saudia Arabia: Land of the Free and Home of the Brave

Let's be more like them!

[BrklynLiberal]

15. "to weigh in on the controversial plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero"

This plan is "controversial" ONLY because people like cheating on his sick wife, unfaithful husband Newt Gingrich keep pouring gasoline on the idea hoping it will eventually catch fire...and then they can jump up and down and point and yell "FIRE! FIRE!"
The man is a schmuck.

http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/infidelity-and-three-republican-president-hopefuls/
Newt Gingrich was the most notorious of them all. Gingrich, who ran for Congress in 1978 on the slogan, "Let Our Family Represent Your Family." (He was reportedly cheating on his first wife at the time). In 1995, an alleged mistress from that period, Anne Manning, told Vanity Fair's Gail Sheehy: "We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'" Gingrich obtained his first divorce in 1981, after forcing his wife, who had helped put him through graduate school, to haggle over the terms while in the hospital, as she recovered from uterine cancer surgery. In 1999, he was disgraced again, having been caught in an affair with a 33-year-old congressional aide while spearheading the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.

[reformist2]

16. Sounds like he's running for President.

Shameless pandering to the base.

[patrice]

17. FINALLY! the Truth: What goes for Saudi Arabia goes for the United States!

YYYYyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! HHHhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Rejoice in the Truth!!!

[KamaAina]

18. Newt's logic teacher: See me after class!

Assuming, for the sake of argument, that the presence or absence of mosques in the U.S. bears any relation whatsoever to the lack of churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia, it would then follow that Newtsie is opposed to all mosques in the U.S., not just in NYC.

And to think, he's taught college, albeit at Kennesaw State in Ga. :dunce:

edit: And where was Newt's poutrage when we knuckled under to the Saudis and ferried our own Jewish troops, who were there protecting them, out to sea by helicopter so they could attend Jewish services aboard a Navy ship, because they're banned in Saudi Arabia?

[patrice]

19. Thom Hartmann says it's not a mosque; it's a full service Community Center, financed by Muslims, and

containing an ecumenical prayer room. Perhaps THAT'S the Real Problem.

[one_voice]

21. Yeah...let's be more like Saudi Arabia....

Women should know their "place" and if not, stone them, whip them, hell just kill 'em.

Oh, yeah maybe someone could help me out here...wehre did 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers come from? :eyes:

You betcha! *wink, wink*

[ck4829]

22. K&R. Contrary to what Newt wants, this is the US, NOT Saudi Arabia.

If you want your government saying what religions are OK or not OK, then you are free to move to Saudi Arabia or Iran.