Obama mosque opinion turns lite
US President Barack Obama has once again weighed into the mosque for Ground Zero argument, saying Muslims have the right to build their house of worship near the site of the 9/11 terrorist event.
Asked on Saturday about statements he made during a trip to Florida, the president said he had never commented, nor would he, on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque close to ground zero.
He said when he had made comments about treating everybody equally in accordance with the law, regardless of race, regardless of religion, he was referring very specifically on rights that date back to the founding of the country.
Later, speaking to reporters, administration officials said the the president wasn’t backing away from the remarks he made Friday, but wanted to give further examples of his thinking.
An Obama spokesman said the president had intended to convey a hypothetical example of a church or synagogue being built in the same area, thereby making it impossible to deny the same right to those who want to build a mosque.
Obama’s Friday comments were taken by some to mean that he strongly supports the building of an Islamic center near the site of the New York terrorist attack.
The mosque in question is to be part of a $100 million Islamic community center, only two blocks from where nearly 3,000 people perished when the World Trade Center towers collapsed due to planes crashing into them on September 11th, 2001.
Source: Thailand News.Net
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