By Julie Shapiro
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
LOWER MANHATTAN — Sarah Palin used her Facebook account to fire back at the mayor late Tuesday over his comments about the Ground Zero mosque controversy.
Bloomberg had criticized Palin after she wrote on Twitter that the planned 13-story mosque and community center was an “UNNECESSARY provocation.” Bloomberg told reporters Tuesday that the issue raises questions of religious freedom, and that he “could not disagree more” with Palin’s position.
“This is not an issue of religious tolerance but of common moral sense,” Palin replied in a Facebook post Tuesday evening. “To build a mosque at Ground Zero is a stab in the heart of the families of the innocent victims of those horrific attacks.”
Palin linked her message to comments that the mosque’s founder, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, reportedly made shortly after 9/11 suggesting that American policies had played a role in the attacks.
Palin also quoted Debra Burlingame, whose brother was the pilot on the plane that hit the Pentagon. Burlingame, a staunch opponent of the mosque, called the construction plans “insensitive and audacious.”
“Many Americans, myself included,” Palin wrote, “feel it would be an intolerable and tragic mistake to allow such a project sponsored by such an individual to go forward on such hallowed ground. This is nothing close to ‘religious intolerance;’ it’s just common decency.”
Palin’s Facebook note was much clearer than her tweets the previous day, in which she accidentally invented the word “refudiate.”
