Why does Newt Gingrich want America to be more like Saudi Arabia?

Published July 22, 2010 4:00am ET



I haven’t really been following the controversy surrounding that so-called “super mosque” to be built at 9/11’s ground zero in New York City. Because given Obamacare, the travesty that is the government’s financial sector reform efforts and the three-ring-circus that is the Obama administration’s economic rescue efforts I just can’t find the time to care about it all that much.

But I did find Newt Gingrich’s recent argument against the mosque, made in a posting on his website, to be interesting.  And more than a little objectionable. Specifically this part:

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