al-Walid bin Talal (Saudi royal) backs moving Ground-0 mosque

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Saudi prince backs moving planned NYC mosque

AP 2010/10/28 08:23 ET

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A Saudi prince who has aided the imam spearheading a proposed Islamic center near New York's ground zero is appealing for another site not associated with the "wound" of the Sept. 11 attacks, a report said Thursday.

In interview excerpts published by the Dubai-based Arabian Business magazine, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal was quoted as saying that moving the planned mosque and other facilities would respect the memory of those killed in the 2001 attacks and allow American Muslims to choose a more suitable location.

The comments are reportedly the prince's first public views on the dispute, which has stirred street protests and fiery debates between religious and political leaders over America's freedom of worship versus the lingering anger over the 9/11 attacks.

Prince Alwaleed's Kingdom Foundation has contributed to the group run by New York's Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, but said he has given no funds to the planned center.

Prince Alwaleed urged the backers of the proposed Islamic center not to "agitate the wound by saying, 'We need to put the mosque next to the 9/11 site.'"

"Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York," the prince was quoted as saying by the magazine, which said the full interview will be published Sunday. "The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.'"

Prince Alwaleed, who chairs a Saudi investment company that has major stakes in international giants News Corp. and Citigroup, also said Muslims in New York should consider a more "dignified" location than the proposed site in lower Manhattan.

"It can't be next to a bar or a strip club, or in a neighborhood that is not really refined and good. The impression I have is that this mosque is just being inserted and squeezed over there," he said.

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Agreed...

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He's Saudi royalty. I'm sure he backs beheadings, child brides, and stonings, too. I'm not elevating the opinion of someone from a country that doesn't respect property rights and freedom of religion like this one does. The bigots in the US who want it moved think a lot like Saudis when it comes to the rights of Muslims, and would, ironically, treat Muslims here like non-Muslims and Muslims are treatedin the KSA. But, hey, they also buy the terrorist line that Islam advocates violence and Muslims are all potential terrorists. Twisted thinking they have in common.

You guys are desperate if he's your model for right (wing) logic.

Edited October 28, 2010 by Sofiyya