Posted on 05/17/2010 12:08:19 PM PDT by johnqueuepublic
Confrontational Islamist Plan for 911 Mosque Mired in Chaos By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
May 17, 2010 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - According to a study done by the New York Post - published in its Sunday edition - an increasingly controversial plan to build a $100 million dollar, 13 story mosque just two blocks away from the epicenter of the Muslim terrorist attacks of September 11 is seriously short of funding and engulfed in questions regarding the motivation of its proponents.
The newspaper's story goes on to show that the organizations which are publicly leading the effort - the American Society for Muslim Advancement [ASMA] and the Cordoba Initiative - together have assets of less than $1 million.
"The American Society for Muslim Advancement, which proposed the center, has assets of less than $1 million...[and a] sister organization, the Cordoba Initiative, listed assets of less than $20,000 in 2008. Its tax filings do not disclose at least $60,000 in private contributions, a Post analysis found, raising questions about where the money went."[source, New York Post, Short on Allah Dollars, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/short_on_3UhQftAjXfFZq1fNURK3BM?sms_ss=email]
Kuwait born imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is at the helm of this effort and runs both groups. He is listed on ASMA's website as, "Founder of ASMA and Chairman of Cordoba Initiative." [source, http://www.asmasociety.org/about/p_people.html]
This lack of funds raises additional fears that the shortfall will be made up from the deep pocket fundamentalist Wahhabis and Salafists of the Middle East who will use the erecting of a mosque at ground zero as a means of extending cultural and religious hegemony.
In his public utterances and activities Imam Feisal has demonstrated skill in building a non-threatening persona, having created a media friendly image of moderation despite a record of extremist and plainly bizarre statements.
For example, during the second segment of the CBS News show 60 minutes broadcast on September 30, 2001, Feisal Abdul Rauf - the alleged moderate - engaged host Ed Bradley in the following manner:
[source transcript available at the "Islam for Today" website - http://www.islamfortoday.com/60minutes.htm]Bradley: "Are you in any way suggesting that we in the United States deserved what happened?"
Faisal: "I wouldn't say that the United States deserved what happened, but United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened."
Bradley: "You say that we're an accessory? How?"
Faisal: "Because we have been accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world. In fact, in the most direct sense Osama bin-Laden is made in the U.S.A."
Feisal has also claimed that the essential elements of Shari'a - Islamic religious law - are embodied in the American Constitution which seems to be a naked attempt on his part to create a moral equivalency where none exists.
"Islamic law and American democratic principles have many things in common...The framers of the Constitution wrote that they were establishing justice, ensuring domestic tranquility, promoting the general welfare and securing the blessings of liberty. In the same way, Islamic law believes that God has ordained political justice, economic justice, help for the weak and impoverished. These are very Islamic concepts."[source, Washington Post, Obama vs. Osama in Muslim World, http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/feisal_abdul_rauf/2009/03/why_obama_should_speak_to_the_muslim_world.html]
Imam Feisal has assured critics that the building of a mosque - on sacred ground, soaked in the blood of innocents - is neither insensitive nor intentionally antagonistic. However when seen clearly, it's an outrageous and blatant act of Muslim domination...a concept dredged up from the 7th century.
That the takiyya laden Feisal and his murky group of backers are so blind as to be unable or unwilling to see the offensive nature of such a move - perhaps the most singularly insensitive and indeed warlike move that any Muslim could propose - speaks with elegant testimony to the assertion that advocates of radical Islam will not stop until both their violent as well as the stealth jihad - of which Feisal could be the poster child - are defeated.
If this is what moderate Islam is all about perhaps a rethinking on our part of the religion's capacity to coexist at any level with the West is in order.
©2010 PipeLineNews.org LLC. William Mayer, Beila Rabinowitz. All rights reserved.
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Islamic states are funding religion in our country. This is a violation of the separationg of church and state. Who says that foreign theocracies can fund the expansion of missions in this country? Their goal is converting the masses to THE state religion and ushering in sharia law.
Even private interests in American cannot open a single Chrisitan church in Islamist nations.
This is no “cultural exchange”, it’s pure suicide.
Let us all reflect for a second about why an organization wanting to build a mosque near the site of the 9-11 mass murder would choose as their name “the Cordoba Initiative”.
I know that it has been said that there are just two types of people entirely ignorant of history; unlettered barbarians and Americans.
Is it time for a brief History lesson my fellow Americans?
Too bad it’s not mired in bacon fat....
Islam is not merely a religion. it is a violent political ideology with its own set of rules and court system. Religion is only one component and is used to impose islam on non non muslim societies.
Hey! New Yorkers!! Take your bacon fat to the former future site of the mosque at Ground Zero and pour it on the ground!!
Every mosque and madrassa in this country needs to be forcibly closed, until one church or Christian school goes up in Saudi Arabia for every muzzie school/mosque here.
We are already working with them, thanks.
No rethinking necessary -- Islam is incompatible with civilization.
In Hawaii, what did the Japanese erect in the years that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Between 50-80% of American mosques are owned in trust by NAIT, the North American Islamic Trust.
NAIT is a Saudi instrument to establish that the Wahhabists remain in control of American Islam.
American Islam is such in name only, it’s really an enforced foreign ideology.
End the death penalty for muslims who convert away from Islam.
End the death penalty for non-muslims who dare enter the segregated cities of Mecca and Medina.
“Imam Feisal has assured critics that the building of a mosque - on sacred ground, soaked in the blood of innocents - is neither insensitive nor intentionally antagonistic. However when seen clearly, it’s an outrageous and blatant act of Muslim domination...a concept dredged up from the 7th century.”
Those not angered by the thought of a 13-story mosque casting shadows down upon Ground Zero are simply anti-American in my book. What greater shrine to an islamic victory over us could there be? Maybe we should just let the enemy built minarets on the National Cathedral.
Yes Cordoba refers to the Muslim experience in Spain, or Andalusia in their terminology.
Anyone who puts forth the ridiculous proposition that it was anything but a bloody conquest by a foreign Islamic imperial army is lying.
Those who did not convert or pay the head tax the “jizya,” mainly spent their time looking at sharp steel.
uhhhhhh...Toyota plants?
lol
sorry...
It never should have been thought in the first place. The author is a moron. There is no such thing as moderate Islam, since it is a theocracy run by violent extremists with backing from their satanic scriptures. And its individual moderates have no influence. They, too, are bomb fodder for its extremists.
Let’s just all remember that Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, now the largest Muslim mosque in the world, was built as an Orthodox cathedral. And yes, the biggest change was to add minarets.
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