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Is the Ground Zero Mosque an Extortion Ploy?
The Atlantic ^ | September 10, 2010 | Daniel Indiviglio

Posted on 09/10/2010 6:34:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Just when you thought the Ground Zero mosque debate couldn't get any worse, Donald Trump enters the fray. This week, the real estate mogul wanted to end the controversy by simply purchasing the property. After all, if the property's owners got an offer they couldn't refuse, then the buyer could simply choose not to build the mosque. But despite Trump offering a 25% premium for what the current owners paid less than a year ago, they refused, saying that it was worth at least four to five times what they paid for it. At that price, Trump quickly lost interest, saying he didn't want to be extorted.

He called into CNBC's Squawk Box this morning to discuss what happened. He explained that the owner of the property purchased it for $4.8 million less than a year ago. Trump offered him $6 million cash, a 25% premium. But the owner balked. He said that the property was worth between $20 million and $25 million. From the episode Trump concluded about the current owner:

He paid 4.8 million less than a year ago. If he paid $4.8 million, and if I'm willing to give him 25%, plus his cost, plus whatever he needs to get him the hell out of there -- but this isn't about, in my opinion, this isn't about a mosque, this is about a mosque being used to get this guy more money.

In fact, Trump believed that the owners believe someone might be willing to pay the outlandish sum they're demanding to end the controversy. He suggested they may believe New York State will want to end the controversy so bad that it will pay the high price. In fact, that might be the point. Trump also said:

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Local News; Religion
KEYWORDS: 911; donaldtrump; groundzeromosque; islam; mosque; muslims; newyork; wtc
Just when you thought you'd heard it all...
1 posted on 09/10/2010 6:34:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s the Rockefellers who are funding the mosque and the Imam is CFR

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Religious Advisory Committee.
http://www.cfr.org/about/outreach/religioninitiative/advisory_board.html

Cordobas partners with ASMA
http://www.cordobainitiative.org/?q=content/ci-partners

Rauf is the founder of ASMA
http://www.asmasociety.org/about/p_people.html

ASMA contributors include 3 different Rockefeller groups
http://www.asmasociety.org/about/p_support.html


2 posted on 09/10/2010 6:37:20 PM PDT by truthfreedom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So they make 5 or 6 million off the deal. That will buy a lot of suicide bombers and IEDs.
3 posted on 09/10/2010 6:41:01 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You only need to think of one thing to understand this perfectly: Al Aqsa.

Bonus: try and guess how long it wil take these guys to have that area a no-go for Christians and Jews.


4 posted on 09/10/2010 6:49:54 PM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Didn’t even have to ask


5 posted on 09/10/2010 6:50:08 PM PDT by onona (dbada)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Have said since day one it’s a JJ style shake down. He won’t build it if he’s paid a LARGE sum of money.


6 posted on 09/10/2010 6:53:20 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Extortion at many levels. Every move for them is calculated that way....
doesnt matter what we do we are in the wrong! Flippin nazi supremacists!


7 posted on 09/10/2010 6:56:57 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: Hardraade

If they were not allowed in the country it wouldn’t be an issue, they really are a bunch of satanic dorks..


8 posted on 09/10/2010 6:59:38 PM PDT by aeonspromise
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s pretty sweet — a 400% or 500% profit in one year.

Where do I get in line for that kind of sweet deal?


9 posted on 09/10/2010 7:19:02 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I got this in my email this morning - it says it all:

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Subject: Historical reality

The Cordoba House was established in Cordoba, Spain many centuries ago after the Moors conquered the Christians.

A cathedral was converted into a mosque and named accordingly.

A reversal happened when the Moors were driven from Spain.

Google explains the history.

Subject: Superb Statement

This is the most clearly stated, sensible, and historically accurate statement.

Statement on the Proposed “Cordoba House” Mosque near Ground Zero

Newt Gingrich

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.

The proposed “Cordoba House” overlooking the World Trade Center site – where a group of jihadists killed over 3000 Americans and destroyed one of our most famous landmarks - is a test of the timidity, passivity and historic ignorance of American elites. For example, most of them don’t understand that “Cordoba House” is a deliberately insulting term. It refers to Cordoba, Spain – the capital of Muslim conquerors who symbolized their victory over the Christian Spaniards by transforming a church there into the world’s third-largest mosque complex.

“Cordoba,” in Islamic symbolic terms, means Islamic rule in the West.
Today, some of the Mosque’s backers insist this term is being used to “symbolize interfaith cooperation” when, in fact, every Islamist in the world recognizes Cordoba as a symbol of Islamic conquest. It is a sign of their contempt for Americans and their confidence in our historic ignorance that they would deliberately insult us this way.
Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for “religious toleration” are arrogantly dishonest. They ignore the fact that more than 100 mosques already exist in New York City. Meanwhile, there are no churches or synagogues in all of Saudi Arabia. In fact no Christian or Jew can even enter Mecca. And they lecture us about tolerance.

If the people behind the Cordoba House were serious about religious toleration, they would be imploring the Saudis, as fellow Muslims, to immediately open up Mecca to all and immediately announce their intention to allow non-Muslim houses of worship in the Kingdom. They should be asked by the news media if they would be willing to lead such a campaign.

We have not been able to rebuild the World Trade Center in nine years. Now we are being told a 13 story, $100 million megamosque will be built within a year overlooking the site of the most devastating surprise attack in American history. Finally where is the money coming from? The people behind the Cordoba House refuse to reveal all their funding sources. America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. Sadly, too many of our elites are the willing apologists for those who would destroy them if they could.

No mosque. No self deception. No surrender.
The time to take a stand is now - at this site on this issue.


10 posted on 09/10/2010 7:21:34 PM PDT by yorkie (If he never even managed as much as a Burger King, don't EVEN think he can manage this country!)
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