Confrontational Islamist Plan for 911 Mosque Mired in Chaos

PipeLineNews.org ^ | 5/17/2010 | William Mayer and Beila Rabinowitz

[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:

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."

[source transcript available at the "Islam for Today" website - http://www.islamfortoday.com/60minutes.htm]

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.

[TADSLOS]

“Mired in Chaos” pretty much sums up islam.

[Islaminaction]

Did you see there is another one opening down there?

[combat_boots]

No.

Interesting.

There are those ministers speaking prophecy now who suggest that something will occur in NYC that will drive the Jewish population from it back to Israel, however. Between moving the financial center to Chicago, should Cap & Tax pass, and this, such thoughts might just be truly prophetic.

[Caribou]

Where is the Mob when you need “Union Labor” to build this garbage?

I’m not much of a union man but now is the time for the union to go on “strike” to keep from building this.

Unless the mob is getting a pretty good deal from the radical muslims.

[Islaminaction]

Check out the highlighted words in the middle. They are getting very arrogant.

http://loganswarning.com/2010/05/17/plans-for-2nd-ground-zero-mosque-in-advanced-stages/

There has to be some very bad days coming, us and Islam are on a collision course.

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[SJackson]

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[johnqueuepublic]

Well that idiot Bloomberg seems to be on board.

[Karliner]

I’ve got two words for this stupid plan the queeb, F*** *O*!!

[bjcintennessee]

Ping

[MestaMachine]

Excellent resource thread:

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

Crossposted to TM starting here:

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you for the heads’ up. You know what they say — pride comes before the fall. FRegards ....

[drpix]

I'm glad you have not be fooled by the Cordoba mythology of Islamists & their anti-west anti-Christian Leftist axis partners. But in the post I replied to you did not reveal that: Look at it again:

  Cordoba Initiative.
  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? 

You merely call for reflection on the very name which has been made a false symbol of Islamic tolerance by that axis. Then you jump to an attack of American ignorance of history - which is a favorite tactic employed by the same axis against those who are not aware of their false history of "Cordoba" and Islamic tolerance. This is exactly how these soft Jihadis have sold their mosque to the NYC dhimmis!!!!!

While your post-37 says exactly what needs to be said - post-5 makes no clear statement calling out the deceit intended by this "Cordoba Initiative" by using that name. If sarcasm was intended, I'm sorry I missed it but glad to have you on the right side.

[Americanexpat]

Let em build it then fly an airplane into it.

[allmendream]

No sarcasm intended at all. Americans are almost entirely ignorant of history, and I believe it was Voltaire who first made that observation.

Islamists must indeed count upon American ignorance of history if they think that invoking Cordoba will bring visions of peaceful coexistence and tolerance.

The actual history is far from it, and the present day reality is that they still claim Cordoba FOREVER as an Islamic mosque.

So let us 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”. Could it be that they are counting on American ignorance of the actual history of Cordoba as well as ignorance of their present day claims to Cordoba? Obviously.

Well obvious to me anyway.

[johnqueuepublic]

Bttt

[Albion Wilde]

...it’s a way of stepping around some thorny problems journalistically.

Understood; that's another reason why this forum is so invaluable.