“It’s a provocative point without any leverage because the people who are building the mosque, as far as I understand it, don’t really have any leverage with the draconian policies of the Saudi government,’” said Cromartie, a former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Newt Gingrich, a Republican former Speaker of the House, wrote on his blog last week that there should be no mosque near Ground Zero if there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.
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