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from all the professional politicians who have declared islam phobia running through this country. the former house speaker called muslims attempting to -- in our fourth story, the contest icon has now taken his demagoguery to a different legal by calling on the federal government to seize control over lower manhattan in new york. the website talking points gingrich recorded thursday on wall builders live, an internet radio show host david barton, gingrich called the u.s. the central front in the war against radical islamists. in. >> in termses of religious liberty, i'm prepared to defend any group's right to worship without the government stopping them. >> however, gingrich went on to define the proposed islamic center on park place as a political effort and not religious, he then outlined how
center near central park, we would like to build a community center near columbia university, but they didn't. >> at this moment, i'm speaking to you from a studio ten blocks below 59th street, 59th street's that way, am i on a battlefield? we put our question to gingrich's office, but they failed to respond. the "new york times" today released a poll that said that the islamic center would like to go forward, but would prefer that they choose a different location. a retired middle schoolteacher who's muslim and is an emt and police cadet was lost in the world trade center tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> your son is now recognized by the city, by this country as a hero, he went into those buildings on 9/11 and tried to save lives. but that was not always the way
got it from my dmv records. and then there were children who changed their names and they adopted american names, adam, mickey, michael, now they're adding a christian name at the end to be recognized and accepted as americans. that's so sad. >> did that just happen or did people make that happen? i'm thinking of what mr. gingrich has now said about turning, i don't know, maybe he means up to central park, maybe columbia university should all be under federal control, but he's talking about an exclusion zone. >> i don't know what's talking about because he has no right to get involved in this issue because he did not lose anyone over there. he's not a new yorker. all these politicians who are just jumping on the bandwagon, ostracizing american muslims like me and the families, ostracizing, painting everybody
multiple levels of government could -- mgingrich suggested andrew cuomo could slow the project down for decades. finally mr. gingrich suggested that congress itself and the president federalized part of new york city to stop the islamic center from being built. >> i think the congress has the ability to declare the area a national battlefield memorial because i think we should think of the world trade center as a battlefield site, this is a war. >> the parameters of gingrich's area are unclear, does it include the 35-year-old with double decked burger king a block away on broadway, the strip including two blocks away on murray street, or would it be the mosque that gingrich outlined on fox news in july. >> i'm quite happy if they said they wanted to build a community
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