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Mysterious Group Buys Building Next to Ground Zero For Mosque
Hudson New York Institute via GatewayPundit.FirstThings ^ | December 16, 2009 | by Youssef M. Ibrahim

Posted on 12/16/2009 11:28:23 AM PST by Steelfish

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To: bgill

Who could have been so inhuman as to sell them that property?
So self hating, left loving Jew looking to make a million bucks no doubt.


341 posted on 01/28/2010 3:19:32 PM PST by sonic109 (and...what are we going to do about it ? NOTHING ?..so shut up and take it !)
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Well said my friend. I’m right next to you buddy. They are 8th century scumbags at best. I spit on them .


342 posted on 01/28/2010 3:25:38 PM PST by sonic109 (and...what are we going to do about it ? NOTHING ?..so shut up and take it !)
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Mosque going up in NYC building damaged on 9/11
breitbart.com ^ | May 6, 2010 | CRISTIAN SALAZAR
Posted on May 6, 2010 3:26:46 PM PDT by rdl6989

NEW YORK (AP) - In a 13-story building, damaged by debris from the Sept. 11 airliners that brought down the World Trade Center and soon to become a mosque, some see the bridging of a cultural divide and an opportunity to serve a burgeoning, peaceful religious population. Others see a painful reminder of the religious extremism that killed their loved ones.

Two Muslim organizations have partnered to open the mosque and cultural center in lower Manhattan, saying the $100 million project will create a venue for mainstream Islam and a counterbalance to radicalism. It earned a key endorsement this week from influential community leaders.

But some 9/11 victims’ families said they were angered that it would be built so close to where their relatives died.

“I don’t like it,” said Evelyn Pettigano, who lost a sister in the attacks, during a phone interview on Thursday. “I’m not prejudiced. ... It’s too close to the area where our family members were murdered.”

But the growing number of congregants at the only other nearby mosque, open only one day a week, created a need for an additional space for Muslim prayer in the neighborhood, said Daisy Khan, the executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement and a board member of the Cordoba Initiative, the two organizations sponsoring the project.

The history associated with the building, a former Burlington Coat Factory store that closed after being damaged on 9/11, was a reason to pick it for the project, she said.

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


343 posted on 05/06/2010 3:37:10 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.thebravest.com/neverforget.htm

http://www.thebravest.com/xaboutusTimtestimony.html

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Note: Video included.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/202370.php

May 08, 2010

“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:”


344 posted on 05/08/2010 10:58:23 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/05/pamela-geller-debates-the-911-mosque-on-hannity-radio-show.html

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk6efjmxK_g

“Sean Hannity Show: Pamela Geller Debates Ghouse (Muslim American Congress) 911 Mega Mosque”
(Added May 13, 2010)


345 posted on 05/14/2010 3:28:10 AM PDT by Cindy
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UPDATE:

blog:

Note: Video included.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/202617.php

May 26, 2010

“About The Mosque At Ground Zero”

SNIPPET: “It’s a go.”

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OFF THREAD TOPIC:

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/202602.php

May 25, 2010

“Tennessee: Brentwood Mosque A No Go”


346 posted on 05/26/2010 3:34:34 PM PDT by Cindy
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CB1 board approves Shariah ‘fun center’ at Ground Zero
911FamiliesForAmerica.org ^ | May 26, 2010 | Tim Sumner
Posted on May 26, 2010 3:25:16 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim

That is quite a headline ‘NYers wage jihad vs. WTC mosque’ in the New York Post this morning with their third report on last night’s Community Board 1 meeting. Things got a little heated. But then, “things” were really heated on 9/11, in the Towers, and down in the Pit; 2,752 were murdered and 1,100 families have yet to receive even one speck of human remains after sharia-compliant Muslims slaughtered their loved ones.

Debra Burlingame addressed the board last night, “I am actually, in a way, glad that this has happened, this controversy, because finally, maybe, Americans, New Yorkers will start asking questions. Top of the list: What is Shariah?”

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Finally, a liberal politician we can agree with: Scott Stringer.

We reject the outright bigotry, oppression, and the savagery of Shariah that Imam Rauf and the money-men inside this Trojan Horse rolling towards sacred ground want imposed here in America upon women, gays, and all non-believers of Islam...

(Excerpt) Read more at 911familiesforamerica.org ...

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9/11 Families Reject Towering Mosque Planned for Ground Zero Site
911FamiliesForAmerica.org ^ | May 24, 2010 | the Editors
Posted on May 24, 2010 8:10:47 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 24, 2010

9/11 Families Reject Towering Mosque Planned for Ground Zero Site

New York, May 24, 2010 — 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America (9/11 FSSA) adamantly rejects the plan for a mosque to be built atop a planned 15-story structure that would tower over the site where nearly 3,000 people were killed by Islamic terrorists.

According to the project’s leader, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the mosque and “Muslim-led community center” is to be called the Cordoba House, named after the historic period when the Islamic Caliphate in Cordoba ruled much of Europe and non-Muslims lived as second-class citizens under Islamic rule.

Victims’ families view the imam’s expressed plan to “leverage” the mosque’s proximity to Ground Zero to engage in proselytizing and to “grow the Muslim community,” as shockingly insensitive to the history of the site where their loved ones were slaughtered in the worst terrorist attack by extremist Muslims in America’s history; following the attack, 20,000 body parts were recovered in a nine-month operation to remove 1.8 million tons of rubble from Lower Manhattan.

“Imam Rauf is a Muslim cleric who, immediately after 9/11, blamed the attacks on U.S. treatment of Muslims, asserting that Osama Bin Ladin was ‘made in the U.S.A,’” said Debra Burlingame, co-founder of 9/11 FSSA, whose brother was the pilot of the American Airlines flight which was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon. “We do not accept the Cordoba organization’s view that we need Imam Rauf to lecture us about religious tolerance in a city still dealing with the consequences of the attack that he claims we brought on ourselves.”

Last Monday, representatives of 9/11 FSSA 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.

Imam Rauf is now publicly stating in a professionally-organized PR campaign that the building will be a community center, “not a mosque.” However, Mr. El-Gamal showed 9/11 FSSA members architectural renderings in which a mosque, located on the top floor of the 15-story building, would have a commanding view of the entire Ground Zero neighborhood.

Equally troubling is the fact that, while the stated purpose of the project is to engage in interfaith dialogue and cultural egalitarianism, Imam Rauf embraces Shariah, the Arabic word for Islamic law, a sociopolitical system of jurisprudence based upon the Koran which supersedes man-made law and which rejects the Constitutional doctrine of the separation of church and state. Islamic countries that embrace Shariah and political Islam are known for brutal policies that discriminate against women, gays, and religious minorities. Shariah law is entirely incompatible with the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment and would violate 1st Amendment protections of speech, assembly and the free exercise of religion.

We feel that the attempt to use our loved ones’ deaths and the painful legacy of 9/11 still felt by New Yorkers to engage in a campaign to reverse America’s core doctrine of religious freedom — and to do so under the guise of interfaith understanding — is a gross insult to the memory of those who were killed on that terrible day.

9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America asks concerned Americans — regardless of race, color, creed, or ethnic origin — to join us in denouncing this effort to chip away at America’s bedrock principle of religious freedom.


347 posted on 05/26/2010 3:44:02 PM PDT by Cindy
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blog:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/ground-zero-imam-i-dont-believe-in-religious-dialogue/?singlepage=true

“Ground Zero Imam: ‘I Don’t Believe in Religious Dialogue’”

SNIPPET: “Exclusive new translations from Arabic websites reveal Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf seriously misleads New Yorkers about his intention to infiltrate Sharia law through his Ground Zero mosque. (Don’t miss PJTV’s coverage of the Ground Zero mosque story.)”

May 27, 2010 - by Walid Shoebat

SNIPPET: “When questioned about this, Abdul Rauf continued: “Current governments are unjust and do not follow Islamic laws.” He added:

New laws were permitted after the death of Muhammad, so long of course that these laws do not contradict the Quran or the Deeds of Muhammad … so they create institutions that assure no conflicts with Sharia. [emphasis in translation]

In yet plainer English, forget the separation of church and state. Abdul Rauf’s goal is the imposition of Shariah law — in every country, even democratic ones like the U.S.”


348 posted on 05/27/2010 7:09:47 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/muslimbrotherhood/index?tab=articles

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http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-ground-zero-mosque-developer-muslim-brotherhood-roots-radical-dreams/?singlepage=true

“The Ground Zero Mosque Developer: Muslim Brotherhood Roots, Radical Dreams

Everything there is to know about Faisal Abdul Rauf, the wolf in sheep’s clothing behind the planned lower Manhattan mega-mosque.”

May 14, 2010 - by Alyssa A. Lappen

SNIPPET: “The prospective developer of a $100 million, 13-story mosque 600 feet from Ground Zero presents himself as a Muslim moderate (1). Yet Kuwait-born Faisal Abdul Rauf also boasts of his issue from an “Egyptian family steeped in religious scholarship” (2). Indeed, Feisal Rauf’s Muslim Brotherhood provenance, radical by definition, is as authentic as it gets.”


349 posted on 05/27/2010 7:15:17 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oic/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/icc/index

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http://europenews.dk/en/node/32600

“How to Stop the Ground Zero Mega-mosque”

The Terror Finance Blog
2 June 2010
By Alyssa A. Lappen

SNIPPET: “Expose Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s history, his statements in Arabic, and his organization’s appallingly incomplete tax filings. Manhattan Community Board 1 gave their nod of approval to construction of a highly contested, 15-story mega-mosque at the former Park Place Burlington Coat Factory — 600 feet from Ground Zero.

But this is hardly a final word on the matter.”


350 posted on 06/03/2010 1:53:51 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/imam_unmosqued_0XbZMwCvHAVdRZEKgx29AK#ixzz0q1gdbTwP

“IMAM UNMOSQUED
Ground Zero booster tied to sea clash”
By ANDY SOLTIS
Last Updated: 11:49 AM, June 5, 2010
Posted: 3:59 AM, June 5, 2010

SNIPPET: “The imam behind a proposed mosque near Ground Zero is a prominent member of a group that helped sponsor the pro-Palestinian activists who clashed violently with Israeli commandos at sea this week.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a key figure in Malaysian-based Perdana Global Peace Organization, according to its Website.

Perdana is the single biggest donor ($366,000) so far to the Free Gaza Movement, a key organizer of the six-ship flotilla that tried to break Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip Monday.

Nine passengers aboard the largest ship died in clashes with Israeli commandos, and a new confrontation loomed today, when another Free Gaza Movement ship was due to reach Gaza waters in defiance of Israel.

Efforts to reach Imam Abdul Rauf yesterday for comment were unsuccessful.”


351 posted on 06/06/2010 9:04:30 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/5000-free-people-stand-for-freedom-against-the-911-mega-mosque-at-ground-zero.html

“5,000 free people stand for freedom against the 9/11 mega-mosque at Ground Zero”

(June 6, 2010)

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http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/excelsior-five-thousand-protest-911-mega-mosque.html

Sunday, June 06, 2010

“EXCELSIOR! UPWARDS OF EIGHT THOUSAND PROTEST 911 MEGA MOSQUE ON D DAY!”


352 posted on 06/07/2010 12:47:18 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI7-GH0e2yw

“Rally against Ground Zero Mosque”
(Added June 8, 2010)


353 posted on 06/12/2010 12:36:05 AM PDT by Cindy
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Is the Muslim Brotherhood behind the planned mosques at Ground Zero ... (Bklyn and Staten Island)?
911FamiliesForAmerica.org ^ | June 19, 2010 | Tim Sumner
Posted on June 11, 2010 1:41:19 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim

Today, the New York Times identifies Ayman Hammous, Abdel Hafid Djamil and Mohamed Sadeia as members “of the Muslim American Society” and reports that a meeting they attended last night in support of two planned mosques got very heated. Within their report, the Times quotes Mahdi Bray this way, “We are newcomers, and newcomers in America have always had to prove their loyalty,” said Mahdi Bray, the society’s executive director. “It’s an old story. You have to have thick skin.” Yet Mahdi Bray was born in America:

“...in 1950 and was more than 30 years old when he amassed at least three felony convictions during the 1980s. ... In all, Bray kept more than $71,000 that the U.S. Government intended go to his grandfather. He pled guilty to one count of mail fraud on June 26, 1989 and was sentenced to 36 months in prison and ordered to make full restitution.”
At best, the Times provides sketchy backgrounds on those it quotes when reporting on hot-button issues such as the plans to build the largest mosque in the country at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, to convert a Roman Catholic convent into a mosque in the Midland Beach neighborhood of Staten Island, and to build a mosque on an empty lot in the Sheepshead Bay area of Brooklyn.

Nor does the Times report on how the Muslim Brotherhood moved to America and transformed itself into the Muslim American Society and a number of other groups known collectively as the U.S. Brotherhood, and, through them, became the leading advocate for replacing our Constitution with political Islam, i.e. sharia law. For that, you must look to the detailed, credible research somewhere else. Let’s start here...

(Excerpt) Read more at 911familiesforamerica.org ...


354 posted on 06/12/2010 12:41:14 AM PDT by Cindy
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ATLAS SHRUGS - blog: "PAYPAL CUTS OFF ATLAS: TRUTH IS THE NEW HATE SPEECH" (SNIPPET: "Paypal is calling Atlas a "hate" site and will close my account if I do not remove the paypal option from my website. Accurate reporting and news is hate. Truth is the new hate speech: Please email or call paypal and let them know Atlas Shrugs is a news site and political blog. I am not responsible for the bad news in the world. I just report. Great, another lawsuit. Want to make a contribution to my fight?" (June 12, 2010)

355 posted on 06/12/2010 6:49:15 PM PDT by Cindy
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Note: Photos included.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/photos-sioa-freedom-rally-against-islamic-supremacist-mega-mosque.html

“Photos: SIOA freedom rally against Islamic supremacist mega-mosque”
Posted by Robert on June 17, 2010 11:23 AM

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More photos and a video:

http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2010/06/stop-the-mosque-at-ground-zero-part-ii/

“Stop the Mosque at Ground Zero – Part II
Americans Stand Up Against Radical Islam in New York – We Will Not Submit!”

June 16, 2010, New York, N.Y., – by El Marco

SNIPPET: “On Sunday, June 6th, a multi-ethnic, multi-racial coalition of Americans opposed to Islamic violence and intolerance rallied at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.”


356 posted on 06/18/2010 1:15:54 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/imam_terror_error_efmizkHuBUaVnfuQcrcabL

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2538148/posts

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http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/?cat=277

Note: Audio interview included.

http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/?p=4261

“NY Post: Imam terror error; Ground Zero mosque leader hedges on Hamas”

by Tim Sumner @ 9:08 am on June 19, 2010. Filed under Cordoba House, Ground Zero, Hamas, Imam Rauf, Muslim Brotherhood, mosque

SNIPPET: “Today, the New York Post reports:

The imam behind plans to build a controversial Ground Zero mosque yesterday refused to describe Hamas as a terrorist organization.

According to the State Department’s assessment, “Hamas terrorists, especially those in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, have conducted many attacks, including large-scale suicide bombings, against Israeli civilian and military targets.”

Asked if he agreed with the State Department’s assessment, Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf told WABC radio, “Look, I’m not a politician.

“The issue of terrorism is a very complex question,” he told interviewer Aaron Klein.

“There was an attempt in the ’90s to have the UN define what terrorism is and say who was a terrorist. There was no ability to get agreement on that.”

Asked again for his opinion on Hamas, an exasperated Rauf wouldn’t budge.”


357 posted on 06/19/2010 3:01:37 PM PDT by Cindy
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Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxFzFIDbKpg

“Of Mosques and Men: Reflections on the Ground Zero Mosque”

Video Description - quote:

Acts17Apologetics — May 26, 2010 — http://www.answeringmuslims.com/
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358 posted on 06/19/2010 3:10:01 PM PDT by Cindy
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“New York City Voters Oppose Mosque Near Ground Zero, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds”
Quinnipiac University Polling Institute ^ | July 1, 2010 | none listed
Posted on July 1, 2010 4:54:26 AM PDT by NYC GOP Chick


359 posted on 07/02/2010 12:51:24 AM PDT by Cindy
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JIHAD WATCH.org (FOX NEWS): "MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD-LINKED MOSQUES AROUSE SUSPICION ACROSS U.S." (July 2, 2010)

Link

360 posted on 07/03/2010 2:39:51 AM PDT by Cindy
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