Giuliani defends adviser over 'too many mosques' comments

[sabra]

Source: CNN

RESTON, Virginia (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani stood by Congressman Peter King, a homeland security adviser to his campaign, over his comment that there are “too many mosques” in the country.

Giuliani told reporters late Thursday afternoon, “I know exactly what Pete meant. I knew what he meant before I heard the clarification.”

The political web site, Politico, reported King said in an interview this week , “Unfortunately we have too many mosques in this country, there's too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully, we should be finding out how we can infiltrate, we should be much more aggressive in law enforcement." King, the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee said the comments were taken out of context.

Asked if he would remove King from the campaign, Giuliani smiled and said, “I’ve known Pete for 41 years, so I’m not about to do that….what he meant was there are mosques where violence is preached. I know that from my own investigations of Islamic terrorism. I also know there are many mosques where it isn’t.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/21/giuliani-defends-adviser-over-too-many-mosques-comments/

[Demeter]

1. More Fool He

So nice to have such demonstrations of unfitness for office before the primary.

[niceypoo]

2. And what about the religious right churches where violence is preached?

Would Rudy agree that there are too many radical churches in the US? And what about the rapture cults and their apocalyptic, 'all of humanity must be exterminated,' message of chaos and violence? Does Rudy favor a censure against that segment of the right wing base?

[Ian David]

3. Maybe we have two many Sons of Itally and Italian-American clubs?

Or too many Fundie churches.

I don't really believe that.

But how would Der Rudyfuhrer like THAT?

[BushOut06]

4. There are obviously too many Christian churches in this country

There are tens of thousands of Christian churches across the US, preaching hatred of Islam on a weekly basis. Yet somehow, I don't suppose this is a problem for Ghouliani.

[madmom]

5. another "what I meant to say was" why do repukes always have

to come back and say that,why can't they stand up for their convictions however jaded they may be?

[damntexdem]

6. There are too many churches in this country.

Oops, I mean too many churches where radical rightwingers preach hate, too many people who are sympathetic to the likes of Fred Phelps. We shold be looking at them more carefully. And we don't even have to infiltrate them, because they've already infiltrated us.

Uh, instead how about respecting separation of church and state? How about focusing law enforcement on unlawful behavior, not on free speech, religious or otherwise?

Oh, I'm sorry, I just can't get out of my pre-9/11 thinking habits.

[CJCRANE]

7. This is classic neocon hypocrisy.

They say one thing domestically to encourage islamophobia but then make billion-dollar business deals with the ME oil monarchies.

It's their MO in everything they do - speak against it in public but encourage it in private.

[KaptBunnyPants]

8. Well, he's running as the Imperial President, so no one should be surprised by this.

You can't advocate invading every Muslim country and pretend to believe in tolerating Muslims. That's why the Christian weirdo's support him even though he is the personification of every slur they have of big city liberals. His ex-wives hate him, his children hate him, he's not religious, he's not pro-life (enough), he's not anti-gay (enough), and he's a drag queen. The only thing he has left to unite him with his base is bigotry, but that is more than enough.

[roguevalley]

9. He's as bad as bush for defending fools. I am ashamed that anyone

would feel like this. its shameful.

[JBoy]

10. "I know that from my own investigations of Islamic terrorism."

So, Rudy's conducted his own investigations of Islamic terrorism. OK, let's see your results. I wanna see the report - some evidence of this personal effort you put in doing research on the subject.

I guess maybe you were doing this research while you were NOT reviewing the 9/11 commission report and NOT attending any of the Iraq Study Group meetings.

[LeftishBrit]

11. What a nasty bigoted comment.

Glad to hear that Congressman King doesn't like sectarian terrorism. I suppose that's why he supported it in my country (the IRA).

[Felix Mala]

12. Of course he does because it plays so well with the core group G needs to become Prez.

Ignorant, inbred racists who want to replace the Constitution with the Bible.