renovated with tax dollarsIs this guy on every dole administered by Obama Inc (formerly USA)?
We've got to hang the story of how much this creep steals from us... we've got to hang that story around the neck of every dim running in 2010.
Rats, Bedbugs Infest Buildings Owned by Ground Zero Mosque Developer
What do you expect from a muslim?
Let me see; a Muslim slum lord and undocumented hispanic tenents.
Yep, it sure sounds like an infestation to me!
Middle Easterners make lousy landlords, and they now own tons of “lower income” marginal rental properties. Not only don’t they give a darn about the tenants (and it’s true that most landlords don’t care about their tenants), they don’t even care about the law and they just ignore fines and citations.
I suspect the Imam will shortly be crying “uncle” on the mosque project. I don’t think he was planning on a daily drip-drip-drip of his personal business in the press.
Maybe the New York health department should start enforcing the health laws.
And if you think the building is full of vermin now, just wait to see the vermin if it becomes a mosque.
Rats, Bedbugs Infest Buildings Owned by Ground Zero Mosque Developer
Birds of a feather?
The Ground Zero Imam’s Troubling Texts
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/09/01/the-ground-zero-imams-troubling-texts/
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It is on this specific assertion that Rauf departs from secular democratic ideals.
Writing in Islam: A Sacred Law, What Every Muslim Should Know About Sharia, he points out the difference between the American government based on man-made law, and an Islamic system, which Allah authored:
God’s role in the explicit philosophical construct of the law makes a big difference between the modus operandi of a righteous Muslim judge in a Muslim court and a righteous Western judge in a Western court. […]
The Muslim judge explicitly “reports to God.”
The judge who sits in the Western court is only explicitly responsible to the Constitution, the interpretations of a civil law and its rules.
Rauf, then, is endorsing a theocracy in which there is no separation between religion and state.
Indeed, he goes even further in his argument, claiming that religious Sharia law must govern all aspects of human life:
[S]ince a Sharia is understood as a law with God at its center, it is not possible in principle to limit the Sharia to some aspects of human life and leave out others. […]
The sharia thus covers every field of law – public and private, national and international – together with enormous amounts of material that Westerners would not regard as law at all…
Among the fields of law Rauf claims must be governed by Sharia are laws controlling religious observances, criminal law (which, according to the Imam, “includes crimes such as murder, larceny, fornication, drinking alcohol, libel”), family law, and economic laws.
According to him it is imperative that these laws be followed by all humanity for fear of displeasing God:
…if you don’t want to be accused by God of being a depraved, disbelieving wrongdoer, you’ve got to abide by “what Allah has sent down…”
Rauf’s book also describes the punishments that must be meted out to those who disobey Sharia:
Theft, for which the punishment according to the Quranic rule is:
“As for the male thief and the female thief, cut off their hands, as a punishment for what they have earned, an exemplary punishment from Allah…”
The punishment for a fornicator, not bound by marriage, is according to the majority of jurists one hundred lashes of the whip and exile for one year.
Rauf diverges irredeemably from the core American principle separating religion and government in a secular democracy.
For all the talk of his constitutional right to build a mosque, Rauf’s writings reveal his desire to ultimately extirpate the 1st Amendment (as well as the 21st) from the Constitution.
No American, especially not self-described liberals like Maureen Dowd, should wish to see this happen.