Posted on 08/03/2010 8:05:07 AM PDT by jessduntno
Cordoba Initiative wins battle to go ahead with Mosque.
Their Chairman (film clip) says "this is not a Mosque."
Also says "we gave water to the firemen on 9/11."
Cordoba opposed landmark status for the five-story building because it would like to build a taller, modern building. "It's not minarets," said Oz Sultan, spokesperson for the Cordoba Initiative, the organization behind the planned center that says it is "committed to promoting positive interaction between the Muslim world and the West."
Sultan described a mock-up of the proposed center as consistent with the latest architecture found in New York City.
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other city leaders support the Islamic center.
Opponents, including former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, have argued against a mosque being so close to the scene of the nation's worst terrorist attack.
"Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing," tweeted Palin last month on her Twitter account.
The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that battles anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, is asking for the Islamic center and mosque to be built further away from Ground Zero in consideration of families who lost loved ones during the September 11, 2001, attacks. "Building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain – unnecessarily – and that is not right," said the organization in a statement.
By designating the building a landmark, however, the commission could have prevented Soho Properties from demolishing the structure or significantly altering its exterior.
Instead the nine-person commission voted unanimously against landmark status.
(Excerpt) Read more at cordobainitiative.org ...
This is almost as dark a day as...
Names and contact numbers?
"This is not bacon grease I'm putting in your pool"
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Uh, the time to contact them was BEFORE the vote.
http://www.facebook.com/no911mosque?ref=ts
If that is so, then this is not a post to FreeRepublic.
I will say this though: This must not be allowed to stand.
The construction of this mosque is intentional, gleeful rubbing of the infidels’ noses in the “victory” of September 11. 2001. It has clear historic precedent in Cordoba and in the Dome on the Rock in the muslim mind.
Prepare and keep your powder dry.
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Randy Benn is the Policy Advisor to the Cordoba Initiative. In that capacity he works to ensure that CI is positioned as a “go-to” organization for policymakers in Washington D.C. that wish to effectively engage Islamic political and opinion leaders. Working with CI’s leadership he is establishing working relationships with the U.S. President and his senior advisors and key Members of the U.S. Congress in order to have a “seat at the table” on critical decisions affecting Muslim/West relations. Randy is also working with CI to build a network of opinion leaders who can promote and endorse CI’s work.
Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi is Senior Advisor to Imam Feisal and advisor on Operations and Strategic Management, supporting all aspects of CI’s international work. Prior to joining CI, Nadeem was founder / director of The Britslam Partnership, an innovative consultancy catalyzing change through multi-level, cross-cultural engagement. A law graduate, Nadeem has worked with The Open Society Institute (on US-Muslim Engagement), Al-Khoei Foundation (as director of international affairs and main representative to the UN), the United States Department of State (on promoting democratic transformation in transitional states), and the UK Government.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is Chairman of Cordoba Initiative, having founded the organization in 2004.
In 1997, he founded the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), the first Muslim organization committed to bringing American Muslims and non-Muslims together through programs in academia, policy, current affairs, and culture. As Imam of Masjid al-Farah, a mosque located twelve blocks from Ground Zero in New York City, he preaches a message of understanding between people of all creeds. Additionally, Imam Feisal sits on the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Center of New York and serves as an advisor to the Interfaith Center of New York.
I would tell the builders of this so called community center to prove it’s not a mosque by allowing members of other faiths to go wherever they wish in the building.
If there are restrictions,you’ll know that it a mosque.
Who cares about your architecture, when it is you policy of death and destruction that we care about?
Some of us know you by your actions, and the others are fooled by your words.
It should never have been up to a body such as this to determine if the Mosque should be build there. What a screwed up country we have.
I don't think this is what he had in mind: 
Cordoba is a city in Spain whose conquest marked an important victory for the Moorish invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. It was the capital of an Islamic caliphate.
World History, round 2.
Seems to me that the people in New York elected these liberal leader clowns. Now they are reaping what they sowed.
It's the governing elite, not the country that is screwed up. On issue after issue--health care, taxes, spending, you name it--they are simply ignoring the will of the American people as they push their agendas.
Yes. But take a look at the Great Mosque of Córdoba as it stands today. Charles V planted a huge renaissance cathedral on top of and in the middle of it. The Spanish knew how to deal with the Islamic BS.
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/h/images/hypostyl_cordo.aer.lg.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2002-10-26_11-15_Andalusien,_Lissabon_182_Córdoba,_Mezquita.jpg
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