New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said yesterday that both Democrats and Republicans are using the Cordoba House Muslim community center as a “political football,” and that while the “sensitivities” of 9/11 victims’ families are important, “we cannot paint all of Islam with that brush.”
Politico reports that Christie was speaking at a bill-singing in Trenton, and said “I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists,” but “it would be wrong to so overreact to that, that we paint Islam with a brush of radical Muslim extremists that just want to kill Americans because we are Americans.”
He added that “what offends me the most about all this, is that it’s being used as a political football by both parties.”
“I don’t believe that it would be responsible of me to get involved and comment on this any further because it just put me in the same political arena as all of them,” Christie said.
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