Posted on 05/13/2010 9:24:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hello New Yorkers and all Americans out there. Save the date, June 6, 2010 and come to Ground Zero for a rally to stop the spread of Islam in the US. It is time that this little known news item gets blasted into the public arena. This story has had a very low profile, in spite of the fact that the NY Times had it on their front page on the December 8th. Since then, there has been very little publicity or follow up stories. (Link: www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/nyregion/09mosque.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ref=nyregion)
The background information begins on 9/11 at 45 Park Place, the Burlington Building, where a portion of one of the planes, either the Flight 11 or 175, crashed through the roof as 80 employees were seeking safety in the basement. For several years the owner unsuccessfully tried to sell the building for $18 million. Finally, in June 2009, the property was purchased by an investment firm called “Soho Properties,” with one of the individual investors listed as the Cordoba Initiative, a name militant Muslims often say when they refer to the glory of the Muslim empire during their occupation of Spain.
Further investigation shows that this “interfaith group” was founded by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is the spiritual leader of another nearby mosque, Al Farah at 245 West Broadway. The records show that the 61-year old Iman paid $4.85 million, all in cash. With an additional investment of $150 million the Park Place property’s 50,000 square feet of air rights could be developed into a 13-story full-fledged Islamic Mosque and Community Center, It’s Feisal’s dream that this could potentially become one of the largest NYC mosques to serve the ever-growing Muslim population. Presently, the building is legally being used every Friday as an extension of Imam Feisal’s mosque, as overflow prayer space to accommodate the growing Muslim community in NYC.
At a May 5 meeting of the Lower Manhattan community board the project was supported including an opening date of September 11, 2011, which will be the 10-year anniversary of 9/11. One has to wonder what this board was thinking when they gave their approval or why it has been encouraged by city officials and the surrounding neighborhood. It is apparent that Mayor Bloomberg’s Director of the Office of Immigrant Affairs, Fatima Ahama, Imam Feisal’s wife, Daisy Khan, who serves on the advisory team for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, and Lynn Rasic, a spokesperson for the memorial, all are speaking out in support “The idea of a cultural center that will strengthen ties between Muslims and people of all faiths and backgrounds.” They all believe that the Park Place location is key to the investors and other supporters of this project. There is also support coming from some Jewish leaders like Rabbi Arthur Schneier, the spiritual leader of the Park Avenue Synagogue on East 67th Street, and Joy Levitt, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Center, whose center would be a model for the Feisel’s plan. Added to this is Joan Brown Campbell, a former general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ USA and now director of the department of religion at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate NY, who is also a supporter of Iman Feisal. She stated: “Building so close is owning the tragedy. It’s a way of saying we want to be here to repair the breach, as the Bible says.” She also has acknowledged the possibility of a backlash from those opposed to a Muslim presence at ground zero.
This brings us to the rally on June 6, D-Day 1944, which is being hosted by Pamela Geller, Executive Director of the human rights group ‘Stop Islamization of America (SIOA)’ and is joined by ACT for America, Manhattan; Z Street; Freedom Defense Initiative; Faith Freedom International, No Mosque at Ground Zero and many more to be announced. Miss Geller has commented: “What could be more insulting and humiliating than a monster mosque in the shadow of the World trade Center buildings that were brought down by an Islamic jihad attack? Any decent American, Muslim or otherwise, wouldn’t dream of such an insult. It’s a stab in the eye of America. The date for this rally has been chosen symbolically as the day Americans acted against the evil of Nazism. Now it is time for Americans to stand up against the evil of Islamic jihad terrorism and Islamic supremacism.” She continues by saying: The only Muslim center that should be built in the shadow of the WTC is one that is devoted to expunging the Koran and all Islamic teachings of the violent jihad that they prescribe, as well as all hateful texts and incitement to violence.” Speakers at the No 9/11 Mosque rally will include Nonie Darwish, ex-Muslim and author of Now They call Me Infidel;Simon Deng, the Sudanese ex-slave and campaigner for human rights for Sudanese Christians; James Lafferty of the Virginai Anti-Shariah Task Force; and Anders Gravers of Stop Islamization of Europe (SIOE). SIOA is one of America’s foremost organizations defending the freedom of speech aganst Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia law to the US.
Questions need to be asked by New Yorkers like: Where did Imam Feisel get $4.85 million in cash to buy this property? Where will the $150 investments come from? It is a significant fact that a good percentage of the hundreds of mosques being built or already built in the USA during the past two decades have had support from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Iran, all with radical Islamic activists. In addition to these sites being places of worship, they also act as a center for the distribution of propaganda literature, written in Arabic and Urdu and proven to be radical in content. You do not have to go too far to already see this. In Brooklyn, Queens, and Detroit the mosques are growing. Recently, the government discontinued work on a major Iranian-funded mosque and center in NYC that had been quietly operating under the auspices of Pahlavi Foundation.
So, come to this rally on June 6 and stand with those who lost loved ones on 9/11 and those who see the slow creeping of Islamic Sharia laws quietly coming to America!
Muslims are a prophecy-mad people. They will, no doubt, take the mosque for the symbolism.
The fall of Constantinople, some centuries ago, became the same sort of “realisation of prophecy” according to their Quran.
Never let the idiots win the ideological war. Allowing so will be surrender whose repercussions will go beyond a just a mere building.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf -— See more about Rauf, his wife Daisy Khan, the Cordoba Initiative, and American Society for Muslim Advancement at the link below:
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Chairman of Cordoba Initiative, was invited to speak in Sydney, Australia, by Premier Bob Carr in 2004.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, he said the U.S. and the West must acknowledge the harm they’ve done to Muslims before terrorism can end.
He said the West must understand the terrorists’ point of view – and he blamed Christians for starting mass attacks on civilians.
“The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians. But it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets,” he said.
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DISGRACE!!!!
MANY CONTEND OBAMA IS A MUSLIM OPERATIVE BENT ON DESTROYING AMERICA FROM WITHIN.
>>>Ground Zero Mosque SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN BY OBAMA ADMIN, IT WON’T, ENOUGH SAID.
This is definately a slap in the face to Americans from that Muslim in the WH.
What Constitutional authority does the President have to "shut down" a house of worship?
But the mozlims have unlimited fund$. What happens when your enemy has all the money?
If it takes an amendment to the constitution to accomplish it, I am almost certain that Americans would vote for it. Or just one law for New York, that no moslem ever be allowed to build a mosque where so many innocents from every nation were killed on a beautiful September morning.
Do I think that President Obama would ever champion something so patriotic? Of course not! I don’t believe the man even knows the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.
But a constitutional amendment to keep a mosque off the property? I believe real AMERICANS would vote for it.
“MANY CONTEND OBAMA IS A MUSLIM OPERATIVE BENT ON DESTROYING AMERICA FROM WITHIN.”
“DESTROYING AMERICA FROM WITHIN” -— that is his goal
“MANY CONTEND OBAMA IS A MUSLIM OPERATIVE” -— at the very least, he sees himself as their protector and will only act against Muslim jihadists in America (and their enablers) when his political back is against the wall and he has no other choice.
I can say for certain, based on a lengthy interview he did some time ago, that he is not a Christian (no matter what he publicly professes). The interview reveals he lacks basic understanding.
It’s also possible that he sees himself as part of the new world religion crowd -— all religions are the same; they all lead to God, etc -— the Oprah religion. This group is myopic about the nature of Islam because they believe what the “moderate” Muslims tell them.
“Ground Zero Mosque SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN”
I think only overwhelming public sentiment (especially and most importantly in NYC) has the power to do so.
“the Cordoba Initiative”
Should they be crushed live velour, or have their hides tanned till they resemble rich Corinthian leather?
From the beginning the Islamic jihads have transformed the churches, administrative centers, and the properties of others into memorials to their victories. From the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the castles of Cordoba,Spain, the Hagia Sophia Church in Constantinople, and now the World Trade Center Murder site, these animals urinate on their territory and in full public view mark it as their captured bloody prize.
We in New York have been an enabler in this process whether we want to admit it or not. We have allowed our NEOCOM/Socialist city and state leaders to bow to every communist and Muslim fringe group with a whining sophist argument to leave that ugly ripped pit in the earth as a testament to our weakness and inability to recover. These animals now view it(Ground Zero) as deserted ground worthy of squatting rights!
Makes your stomach sour; doesn’t it? Of course, it could be that they are being funneled the American people’s money too.
THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "9/11 FIREFIGHTER OPPOSES MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO AS 'A TROJAN HORSE ROLLED ONTO OUR MOST SACRED GROUND," asks 'Where is the money coming from?"" (SNIPPET: "A decision by a Lower Manhattan community board this week gives the go-ahead for a $100 million mosque to locate beside the Ground Zero site. But not everyone is happy with the decision, including those who survived the attacks and the families of those murdered by Islamic terrorists on 9/11. In this Fox NY interview below on Thursday, 9/11 firefighter Tim Brown describes the mosque project as "a Trojan horse being rolled into our most sacred ground". He squared off with the mosque's imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, asking whether any of the money for this mosque will be coming from the regimes of Islamic countries who have actively aided and financed Islamic terrorists, and where Rauf got the reported $4.85 million in cash to purchase the building, prompting profuse evasion and side-stepping by the imam. Tim Brown is one of the few 9/11 survivors to survive the collapse of both WTC towers. He also a first responder to the 1993 WTC bombing by another group of Islamic terrorists. Here is his story on what happened on 9/11:" (Posted May 8, 2010)
Islam is not a religion. It is a violent political ideology with its own set of laws and court system. Religion is only one component and is used to impose Islam on non muslim societies.
Have NYC Athiests chimed in on this? They were apoplectic over the cross beam that was on the WTC site simply because some Christians viewed it as a religious symbol when it reality it was part of the orginal structure. It was subsequently moved to in front of St. Peter’s Church on Barclay Street. I guess NYC Athiests are only politically correct when it comes to Islam.
Why would atheists care about this? This is on private property, and is not on the WTC site. Atheists don’t go around protesting every church/synagogue/mosque/temple/etc.
Wasn’t the WTC privately owned on 9/11?
Of course the WTC was privately owned. The atheists who complained about the cross did not complain because it was there, they complained because it was (and, I think, still is?) going to be part of the (taxpayer-funded) 9/11 memorial.
I’m not justifying the atheists’ complaints (they’re idiots - that cross is as much a symbol of the aftermath of 9/11 as anything else I can think of, of course it should be part of hte memorial). I’m just saying that the cross protest is not at all analagous to this one.
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