Renee Ellmers Quotes
The terrorists haven't won, and we should tell them in plain English, 'No, there will never be a mosque at Ground Zero.'
Ellmers, Renee. "No Mosque at Ground Zero." Renee Ellmers for Congress, Aug. 2010. Television Advertisement.
After this statement was issued by the embassy, a mob stormed the embassy as shown in the graphic. The reason that this statement is an important quotation is that that Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for President took the situation as an opportunity to attack the President. Specifically he claimed that this statement was an “apology” and it was terrible for America to apologize. The administration and most media fact checkers could not find anything in the statement that was an apology as opposed to as statement of United States policy and practice. Romney and his supporters insisted it was an apology. So the statement itself has become a major historical quotation where people can judge for themselves if indeed it was an apology. There are many who believed that under the circumstances an apology might not have been a bad idea. A few years earlier when a Danish magazine had published some insulting cartoons of The Prophet, riots broke out around the world and dozens of people were killed.
If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up.
Nouri Kamel Mohammed Hassan al-Maliki. This quotation is very ironic. Maliki was a Shiite Muslim—one of the majority in Iraq that had been ruled by the brutal regime of the minority Sunnis. When the United States invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussein and his Sunni regime. Once elected to office he frequently made statements like this urging a pluralistic society which included the Shiites, the Sunnis, and the Kurds. However he became more and more of a dictator {640493} and did everything possible to discriminate against and oppress the minority Sunnis and Kurds. His statements of ethnic and religious unity were made to keep obtaining American and other international aid.
In September of 2005 a Danish Newspaper published some political cartoons showing the hypocrisy of some Muslims who use Islam to justify murder of innocents and terrorism. Months later, in January of 2006 many in the Middle East protested vehemently and Muslim riots broke out because the Prophet Muhammad's visage was depicted against Islamic tradition. Many Muslim nations started a boycott against Denmark. Many Muslim leaders claimed that insulting religion was an “abuse” of freedom of speech including those from nations which regularly publish material that is virulent against Christians and Jews.
Many critics of the King observed that Saudi Arabia is one of the most intolerant nations in the world where it is a crime for a woman to drive or to import a Christian or Jewish Bible. The country has produced a much higher percentage of fanatical terrorists than its population in the Arab World. Osama bin Laden grew up as a citizen of Saudi Arabia. Saudi money supports Wahabbi—one of the most intolerant wings of Islam—by which Saudi Arabian trained and funded clerics preach extremism and hatred the world over. For example, see {620142} for an example of Saudi Arabian intolerance preached at one of Islam’s most important mosques just weeks after the king is quoted talking about tolerance. It is not as if there is freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia and the king may not censor any intolerant speech. People are jailed and tortured for simply criticizing the government or royal family, executed for criticizing Islam.
He was the elected Mayor of London at the time.
Dyer was the 32nd and current mayor of Orlando, Florida, first elected in 2003, when he gave this interview to his Alma Mater magazine. Orlando had a few months earlier been the scene of the worst mass shooting in the history of the United States when one terrorist killer attacked a popular nightclub.
Renee Jacisin Ellmers is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district from 2011 to 2017. She is a member of the Republican Party. Ellmers defeated seven-term Democratic incumbent Bob Etheridge in 2010 by 1,489 votes, confirmed after a recount. In the 2016 Republican primary, Ellmers was defeated by fellow Congressman George Holding.
