New York Green Candidate Hawkins on 9/11 and Politics
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party of New York State candidate for Governor, said today that he was very disturbed by the efforts of the Republican Governor candidates to advance their sagging election prospects by crudely inflaming religious and ethnic tensions by attacking the proposed Muslim Center near the former World Trade Center. Hawkins said:
Why do these Republicans hate our freedom? Freedom of religion is ...
Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque
So far, the debate over the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero has unfolded along predictable lines, with the man at the center of the project, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, drawing attacks from the right painting him as a terrorist sympathizer with ties to Hamas[1] and the Muslim Brotherhood.[2] But meanwhile, links between the group behind the controversial mosque, the CIA and U.S. military establishment have gone unacknowledged. For instance, one of the earliest backers ...