Obama Not Worried by Muslim 'Rumors'
Unfortunately, most people who actually believe President Obama is a Muslim were on their way home from the Glenn Beck rally and missed it: Obama addressed a recent poll that showed 18 percent of Americans think he’s a Muslim in an interview with NBC News on Sunday night. "It's not something that I can, I think, spend all my time worrying about it," he said. Asked why he thinks the misinformation about his religion persists, Obama said, "There is, a mechanism, a network of misinformation that in a new media era can get churned out there constantly.” He also addressed the birthers too, saying, “I can’t spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.” And he reiterated his support for the Islamic center being built near Ground Zero. “If you can build a church on that site,” he said, “if you can build a synagogue on that site or a Hindu temple on that site, then we can’t treat people of the Islamic faith differently, who are Americans. Who are American citizens. That is central to who we are.”
The "Ground Zero Mosque" Owner's Tough Business Style
Emerging details paint a very different picture of Sharif El-Gamal, owner of the property to be the site of the "Ground Zero mosque," than the Horatio Alger story previously told. These revelations could form a wedge between El-Gamal and Park51's Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf. Florida court records show that Sharif and his brother, "Sammy," have a long history with debt and tax problems, The Daily Beast's Asra Q. Nomani reports. Sharif even once told the court that he didn't hit a tenant who was late on his rent, but his "face could have run into my hand." The ambitious Rauf is not a good match for the domineering Sharif. They face a huge back tax bill in New York and are dogged by a private investigator in Florida. In light of these and other facts, Nomani writes that it looks unlikely the mosque will be built in its proposed location and will be built somewhere else.
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