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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,667678,00.html
12/17/2009
“Finding Allah at Ground Zero
A New Manhattan Mosque Hopes to Heal”
By Marc Pitzke in New York
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,667678-2,00.html
SNIPPET: “he history of this five-story building at 45 Park Place is closely tied to the events of Sept. 11, 2001. That morning, the landing gear of one of the planes which hit the towers crashed through the roof and through two sales floors. The store wasn’t open yet, so nobody was hurt. Still, Burlington Coat Factory moved out. The building, built in 1923, has been empty ever since.
The owners, heirs of the New York Pomerantz family, finally sold it in July of this year for the ridiculously low sum of $4.85 million. It was bought by the real estate company Soho Properties, run by Muslims. One of the investors was Imam Feisal, who was looking to expand his congregation downtown...”
SNIPPET: “The project has found support from the city. “We as New York Muslims have as much of a commitment to rebuilding New York as anybody,” the mayor’s director of the Office of Immigrant Affairs, Fatima Shama, who is Muslim herself, told the New York Times.”
SNIPPET: “Imam Feisal, who was born in Egypt, is well-known here for his moderate voice. He has preached tolerance and freedom of religion, criticized fanatism and bigotry, and is even accepted by Jewish communities. “He subscribes to my credo,” Rabbi Arthur Schneier, the leader of the Park East Synagogue, told the Times. “Live and let live.””
SNIPPET: “Just 100 yards away, construction cranes rattle. From the hole that is Ground Zero gigantic steel beams have begun to rise — the first floors of the new World Trade Center.”
"Just 100 yards away, construction cranes rattle. From the hole that is Ground Zero gigantic steel beams have begun to rise — the first floors of the new World Trade Center.”
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Bloomberg LLC makes Dubai a financial news hub. Is this why the mayor is promoting the WTC mosque?
the national ^ | October 29. 2008 | Keach Hagey
Posted on August 16, 2010 8:59:52 AM PDT by wampanoag
Bloomberg makes Dubai a hub
Keach Hagey
* Last Updated: October 29. 2008 9:58PM UAE / October 29. 2008 5:58PM GMT
Spurred by a recent boom in sales in the region, Bloomberg is expanding its Dubai office into a regional hub, a move that will as much as quadruple its local staff over the next year.
Max Linnington, the company’s newly appointed regional head of Middle East and South Asia, announced the expansion today in advance of a panel discussion with economists and dignitaries in front of the Dubai International Financial Centre’s iconic The Gate building, where Bloomberg has had offices for two years.
“We are going to be bringing all the elements of what you would find in one of Bloomberg’s largest offices here in Dubai,” he said.
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