Posted on 07/13/2010 6:25:30 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
After reading this New York Post report, we hope New York's Mayor is merely confused: "Michael Bloomberg said it would be unAmerican to investigate the mosque [sic] that is planned for construction near where the World Trade Center once stood."
We do not ask for an investigation without cause.
The Cordoba initiative received its largest donation, $576,312, from Qatar, just prior to the purchase of the Burlington Coat Factory:
[On May 17, 2010], representatives of 9/11 [Families for a Safe & Strong America] met with Sharif El-Gamal, owner and CEO of Soho Properties, the corporation that purchased the two buildings where the mosque will be built at 43-45 Park Place, and asked him to name the investors in the mosque project. Mr. El-Gamal refused, citing the advice of his attorneys, stating that “this is private property” and that “we can build this ‘as of right.’” The property was purchased with $4.85 million in cash.
In Arabic, Imam Rauf changed his story as to where that $4.85 million came from. Barring a full and fair accounting of the money to buy and build the Cordoba House, it should be audited and investigated by legal authorities.
That is not all that is wrong with Mayor Bloomberg's word: un-American. It is misdirected.
We believe in freedom of faith; all have an unalienable right to believe or not believe in something beyond earthly mortality. Imam Feisel often has said of the Cordoba House, "It is not a mosque." So, what is true? Rauf admits that there would be a place within those walls for the faithful to pray and it falls within what Muslims define as a mosque. His religion, whether we believe in it or not, is not why we object.
It is Imam Rauf who suggests that political Islam, more specifically sharia law, should rule all nations. Our Nation was founded in liberty; we should never stand silent while a discriminatory ideology is promoted. And we should not "tolerate" its promotion under guise of religion overlooking hallowed ground where genocide was committed and brave American heroes fell.
Rauf has openly admitted he will use that site and "the World Trade Center rubble" for "da'wah," the call to non-believers to Islam. If he was totally honest, Imam Rauf would admit that da'wah is an offer we can not refuse for if we do, the jihad is authorized.
America need not tolerate a 15-story threat two blocks away from where we paid so dear a price for not heeding the warnings from Islamists. We should never accede to their demands to submit -- not at Ground Zero or anywhere else.
There’s an old saying that goes something like “The bigger you are the harder you fall.”?
Building this mosque would be like building a memorial to Adolph Hitler in the middle of Arlington National Cemetary.
This will become a holy site for the mohammedans as they claim it as the place of a “great victory for islam.”
Ping!
...interesting that the Muslim killers call this mosque Cordova...that city in Spain was capital to a Muslim caliphate in the middle ages...I have no doubt that they’d like to turn NYC into a neo-caliphate.
Plant a ‘Ruby Tuesday’s’ across the street. Keep it open 24/7 and make sure local businesses get a special discount!!!
Signs of the times. We have no leadership in Washington DC. Islam is seizing the day, taking this country without a single bombing or firing a shot. They know Obama and all democrats for that matter are pussified and cowards. Biden is one of the biggest cowards. Pelosi would sell DC for a ride on a military plane for her kids, Michelle wants all blacks to riot in the streets, John Morton, head of ICE doesn’t want to deport illegals anymore, Ken Salazar, Department of Interior, is still selling permits to BP, Steven Cho, Department of Energy, took money from BP when he was at UC Berkeley. Yeah, all of Islam knows the US has become the paper tiger
Why hasn’t one solitary American asked why it’s called Cordoba House? Don’t Americans know what Cordoba was and now means to Muslims?
Educate Americans what Cordoba means and why they use this and you will win.
The Islamic call to prayer ringing out over loud speakers high above “ground zero” will be a daily reminder of what happened there.
We have asked him. He says Cordoba (when ruled by Islam) was the height of equality. If I gave him the benefit of the doubt and politely as I could characterize him as merely ignorant of history, I would say “Rauf does not know sh ... shiite about Cordoba.” But he knows better and is lying.
I can’t believe that red-blooded American construction workers would renovate this building to be a mosque.
If it’s built, bring it down like the Twin Towers.
Keep pushing a little hot dog cart in front of the place, with pork containing aromas drifting in the door...
And have hookers parade around in front of it.
It’s not just American to oppose this but, one wonders about the sensitivity of the ROP and how they could persist in the face of total opposition.
Can’t they build the mosque on the grounds of the U.N.?
Un-American? It’s downright ANTI-American.
It would be un-American to investigate the plans to build a Shinto Shrine where USS Arizona once floated.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.