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!
I believe the very title for it as created by two persons name of Murdoch, was "The Crescent of Hope". It was, as most people might know in the shape of a crescent. It has been stated it pointed toward Mecca. I understand that outrage had caused a rethink. It was then converted into a circle. Apparently the names of the dead were to be enshrined and the names of the evil swine who sent the doomed flight down, also recorded separately.
It is a blatent piece of Islamic arrogance to build this mosque there. How they can get away with this, if they do, almost is beyond belief.
“a backlash from those opposed to a Muslim presence at ground zero”
Ya think?????
No, it’s owned by the Port Authority.
Thanks for that link. If you have any more links re the imam’s more incendiary remarks, please let me know!
My synagogue is the closest to the WTC, and I fear that some of the more liberal elements might get the bright idea to “do something” with this mosque, and I want to have enough ammo to convince the overwhelming majority to slap it down.
Amen, WP.
jihad bump
Thanks!
Oh, and just think of the money it will make for the jhadists.
That's the only kind of message they will clearly get.
“Car Bomb in Times Square... “ (Bob again)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8k0X3ZJK3M&feature=channel
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