Rudy Responds To "Too Many Mosques" Controversy
Rudy has now responded to the ruckus over the claim yesterday by one of his advisers, GOP Rep. Pete King, that there are "too many mosques" in America.
King yesterday clarified by saying that he'd meant that there are "too many mosques" where radical Islam is practiced. Now Rudy has weighed in in his defense, arguing that King didn't say what he actually said, and anyone who says otherwise is "seeking to misinterpret" his remarks:
“Peter explained it quite adequately ,” Giuliani said at the news conference in Reston, Virginia after returning from London. “For me, he didn’t have to explain it. I understood exactly what he meant. I’m glad he explained it for everyone that might seek to misinterpret."
Here's what King said:
“Unfortunately we have too many mosques in this country, there's too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam."
Comments (3)
Infidel wrote on September 21, 2007 12:15 PM:Then as for those in whose hearts there is perversity, they promote the part of it which is allegorical, seeking to mislead and seeking to give it their own interpretation. 3:7
Daniel wrote on September 21, 2007 1:28 PM:All the REpublicans have been running to the Right and this is just in that vein. Huckabee and Brownback made shocking claims yesterday about contraception and abortion, and Giuliani is now flipping on gun rights.
Sam Elowitch wrote on September 21, 2007 4:33 PM:I don't much like King, but I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt. I don't think he meant there were too many mosques, but rather that too many of those mosques, and the people that attend them, are supportive of (or at least complicit with) terror.
It's an arguable point, because in point of fact American Muslims have been remarkably free of terrorist activity to this point. If you count people like Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh as terrorists, non-Muslim Americans have more terrorists among them.
