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| Rick Lazio challenges Cuomo over legality of Ground Zero mosque funding | |
| 2010-07-08 | |
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio challenged his Democratic opponent Wednesday to explore the legality of the funding behind a proposed mosque near Ground Zero.
Lazio demanded Attorney General Andrew Cuomo figure out where the backers of the Cordoba House expect to get $100 million to build it. "Anyone who has evidence of wrongdoing should send it to us, and we will review it," Cuomo replied in a statement. In a letter he sent to Cuomo, Lazio cited press accounts that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who's spearheading the mosque's construction, is a "key figure" in an organization that funded the flotilla that sought to break Israel's Gaza blockade. Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles was a pilot on the plane terrorists crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, said the imam has written about his hopes of bringing strict Islamic law to the United States. "He means to use the Ground Zero location of the mosque to 'leverage' people to Islam," said Burlingame, the co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America. Organizers behind Cordoba House have said they have peaceful intentions and the mosque is just one part of a larger community center that will be open to everyone. The center would be located on Park Place, about two blocks from the World Trade Center site. | |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Lazio doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of becoming NY's governor. However, props for calling out Son of Cuomo. |
| Posted by: Glomock Tojo6610 2010-07-08 10:29 |
| #1 Go to the closest slaughterhouse and dump all the Pig guts you can find at "Ground Zero", that'll kill this Muzzie crap once and for all. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-07-08 10:10 |