Posted on 08/07/2010 2:15:49 PM PDT by decimon
Next stops for Feisal Abdul Rauf, imam of the plan for a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero: Courtesy of the U.S. State Department, Rauf — a.k.a. Imam Feisal – is scheduled to spend the rest of the summer on a swing through the petro-dollar palaces of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Bahrain, and Qatar.
For more details, here’s the column in which yesterday evening I broke this bit of news (I have not found it reported anywhere else so far — which leaves me wondering why, amid the emoting and editorializing splashed all over the MSM by defenders and commenders of Rauf, no one seems to be asking where he’s actually disappeared to): “Further Travels of Imam Feisal.”
Rauf’s summer itinerary suggests odd priorities for a man who, in the name of harmony and bridge-building, has stirred up a furious debate in the U.S. — and then quietly left the country last month, leaving many questions unanswered about such matters as where and how he plans to raise the $100 million he’ll need to realize his dream of a high-rise Islamic hub right up the street from where the Twin Towers stood.
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
I hope he's telling the truth, if you guys know what I mean...
If nothing else this project could use a little more...transparency.
This is another matter where the public is being told it has no right to know what is going on and has no right to object.
For your New York state of mind ping.
So the guy doesn’t have the money yet??? His travels should be monitored closely and reported on.
Wish I’d heard that Rush caller.
This idea , though, of “union” tradesmen refusing to participate en masse strikes me as wishful thinking.
NYC or NYState-based locals of all trades do NOT pass up
projects like this-—it’s just all a matter of how it plays out politically in the power structure of City and State, which now is embodied in the personages of Mayor Bloomberg, and AG (and Gubernatorial candidate) Andrew Cuomo. These two are the most prominent “Yay-sayers”.
They KNOW there is rapidly growing opposition to this on ALL sides, and Cuomo in particular must recognize his chances for occupying the Governor’s mansion are ALREADY compromised by his lining up behind Bloomberg.
But what would be the alternative if there is a threatened work stoppage/refusal to participate by large enough numbers of tri-state area workers?
Importing workers from elsewhere,( Bin Laden Construction,anyone?) would be the natural and horrifyingly unlikely
scenario. Don’t get me wrong, I DO think a mass refusal to work by locals would be THE best and strongest argument against the Mosque, one that would accomplish all the things that were fondly wished-for with the Landmarks Commission, or even the planned eminent domain move sometime in the future with one of the Governor candidates, namely Carl Paladino. It would further push this whole thing to the boiling point, and push Bloomberg into dictatorial mode, which I don’t think he’s ready for, but can imagine he could easily get to.
Another scenario, and one I hope does NOT come to pass, is that the Mosque will be built somewhere else “not so sensitive”. I think the Islamic conquest symbolism is EVERYTHING to Imam Rauf, so if he is pushed to accept the fact finally that America as a whole does NOT want Cordoba House at Ground Zero, he will lose interest in having it ANYWHERE else. And THAT will show you just what he had on his mind (OBVIOUSLY) all along.
They will bring in their own labor to build the thing. Can't having infidels building a holy place don't you know. And New Yorkers will let them.
His trip seems to be in conjunction with the State Department.
The Labor union leaders will be paid off no problem.
Were I King, there would be about a half dozen Black Ops and this garbage would be over in a week. Then a public victory garden would be planted at the site.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muslims/interviews/feisal.html
PBS interview of Feisal. He is slick, almost sounds , ahem.....Christian.
Btw, forgot to note year of interview, if it was shown.
How come he’s not asking Obama...both have the same explosive religion.
I don’t doubt the construction supervisor is telling the truth. My question is: would they bring in workers from Saudi Arabia, Mexico, or out of state to do the work? Could/Would that happen?
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