Posted on 09/13/2010 9:23:01 AM PDT by jackspyder
NEW YORK – The imam leading the effort to build an Islamic center and mosque near the World Trade Center site said Monday that a resolution to the raging debate over its location is being examined.
"We are exploring all options as we speak right now, and we are working to what will be a solution, God willing, that will resolve this crisis, defuse it and not create any unforeseen or untoward circumstances that we do not want to see happen," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said during a question-and-answer session following a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations.
He did not elaborate on whether the options included moving the center from a site two blocks from ground zero.
But in response to a later question, Rauf said the proposed location, while controversial, was important.
"We need a platform where the voice of moderate Muslims can be amplified. ... This is an opportunity that we must capitalize on so the voice of moderate Muslims will have a megaphone," he said.
The imam said he wanted to clarify a "misperception" that the Islamic center's proposed site was sacred ground.
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No, I’m not wrong. If you are a practicing muslim bowing to that murdering book of throat slitting and beheading, you are NO moderate. Under any twisted sense of the word and the sooner we recognize what we are up against, the better off we will all be.
Just like this imam rauel who everyone is trying to pass off as “moderate”. Please.
Oh have no doubt King sheik somebody Osama Bin Laden and hamas will kick in whatever money he needs.That’s what we cought them at. No one dared question them and now the POTUS is stopping all further investigations of this while he sues Az. and takes retainer for terrorists. Obama just intervened in the U.S.S. Cole terrorist trial.WHAT PART of a military Tribunal KNOWS better than you Obama STFU and GTFO and FUBO don’t you seem to understand?
Hamas got how much from us via Obama 100 million?
Step back from your political correctness injections on TV.
No one is saying muslims are bad. They will not dominate.
Due to political correctness Christians are not America. Obama denounced Christians and is putting Islam high on an altar. He can’t have it both ways. They had muslim day at six flags.WE ARE TOLERANT we just won’t be dominated!
Just remember...no more ‘Bush’s Fault’...the new democrat, media,Islamist and terrorist meme is:
“Sarah’s Fault”
LOL!!
Condo conversion? I have not heard that but it makes sense. This phony holy man was a New Jersey slumlord. He got Federal funds to rehab some slum housing and by the time he was finished it looked like rehabbed slum housing
Mosque 'slumlord'NJ tenants rage at G. Zero imam
By PERRY CHIARAMONTE and CATHY BURKE
Last Updated: 10:39 AM, August 30, 2010
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/mosque_slumlord_K7LEYxaJRDmD3IhbhkhtXL#ixzz0zQv6ALnkHe's the religious leader of the planned, controversial Ground Zero mosque -- but across the Hudson, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is known as an alleged slumlord.
At buildings in Union City and Palisades Park, where Rauf reportedly got tax dollars to renovate low-income apartments, tenants yesterday said their gripes about their lousy housing conditions have been ignored.
"Why doesn't he help the tenants he has before he builds a new place, claiming he wants to help people?" said a disgusted Jamie Barillas, who lives in a Rauf-owned apartment at 2206 Central Ave. in Union City.
LOL.
“Sarah’s fault.”
You betcha!
Yep, 70th Division is right. The market tanked, so he got this idea to scheme the city with a mosque that avoids all kinds of taxes. Well, the s.o.b. didn’t calculateor count on all the outrage. It’s libtard NYC, after all.
Yes I agree. It went pretty much viral on him. He will crawl back under a rock sooner or later.
Discovery should be a hoot :)
b u m p
I heard a 50 gallon barrel of liquid pork fat poured on the ground where the mosque is to be built will stop the whole thing.
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