This is an article in the Huffington Post that I found to be interesting. It talks about how Donald Trump offered to buy an investors stake in the building that has plans to put up a mosque. He was reported to have offered the investor 25% more than he had originally paid for it. The investor did not take Mr. Trump on his offer even went as far as to say that Trump was trying to get publicity for the ordeal.
For one thing Donald Trump doesn’t need to buy out some investor for publicity. He has the apprentice show for that. Also if this investor was really just an investor then he would have jumped on the offer. He is obviously in it now for publicity himself. If the building wasn’t such big controversy now then he would have sold it to Mr. Trump in a heartbeat. It makes me sick to see that the media would even cover this story the way that they did. Their point of view should be objective and not from a perspective that makes anyone look like the “bad guy” I personally applaud trump for his offer it is not every day that we see someone actually try to make a difference in a problem. He is a New Yorker and as such he too is appalled to see a mosque going up that close to ground zero. It is not saying that he thinks Muslims shouldn’t have a mosque in New York just that out of common respect for the victims and their families not to put one there. If the leaders of the Muslim community really wanted to show that they are peaceful and not an intolerant people then they would find a different place for their mosque. That would make everybody happy and might even show the world that they care about people other than themselves too. Just deciding to move the mosque might win them the respect that they act like they are looking for.
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