around the world who are peaceful people. your campaign says not only is your opponent against building the islamic center but told politico.com and i want you to respond, they say ms. ellmers is desecrating this hallowed ground in an attempt to raise her profile. no further proof is needed, she will say anything to get elected. when you don t have anything else to say or stand on because of your voting record, you are going to lash out like that. you know, calling us names and saying that we re terrible, awful people for our way of thinking, all we re doing is reflecting what we ve seen in the district. and the people that i ve talked with who are so concerned with where our country is going. i am not running for a popularity contest in new york or d.c., or on television, i am running for the people of district 2, north carolina, who are good, hard-working christian people who just want to turn this country around. what about muslims? do you want their vote?
that terrible, awful disaster that happened? right. we re all americans, this is an american issue, and the people of district 2 in north carolina are very concerned about it. well, i appreciate that s why i m speaking out on it. you also say on your website, and i quote that the obama administration has been spending foreign aid money to build mosques in muslim nations. you do know that started under george bush in 2001. and you do know that and that s fine. that is fine. and just for accuracy sake because you don t mention this on your website, this is actually outreach by the state department to restore historic sites including some mosques but it also restores christian sites and buddhist sites and the mosques are a fraction of the overall spending. that s correct, right? well, i m not trying to make justifications. no, no, you brought this up as if our state department is spending money building mosques around the world. and we are at war right now in afg
going to lash out like that. you know, calling us names and saying that we re terrible, awful people for our way of thinking, all we re doing is refleblthing what we ve seen in the district. and the people that i ve talked with who are so concerned with where our country is going. i am not running for a popularity contest in new york or d.c. or on television, i am running for the people of district 2, north carolina, who are good, hard-working christian people who just want to turn this country around. what about muslims? do you want their vote? absolutely. i want everyone s vote. as a nurse i ve taken care of every race, creed, color, religion, everything. that s what i was trained to do and to respect their traditions, and i will continue to do that as a congresswoman in washington. renee elmers, i appreciate your time. thank you. i must say i ve never had a
jerusalem, his son king solomon built the temple. and then when, as you also said, when rome became christian, they built st. peter s, one of the great churches ever built. so this is consistent in history and kind of lost in this whole conversation, i think, is there s 600,000 muslims who live in and around new york city and, in fact, there have been there are mosques in this area. in fact, there was a muslim prayer room in the world trade centers, to her reference about the trade centers. so the point is, it just is unusual and frankly a little frightening that a political candidate in north carolina or my hometown of savannah is going to comment on where muslims in new york city can worship or not. well, so if you i mean if you call a mosque a victory mosque, then would you by that logic, could you call the vatican a victory church or st. peter s a victory church, if you re going down that road? if you want to use that language, i don t think it s constructive language, an