Posted on 11/22/2010 6:48:33 AM PST by La Lydia
Developers of the controversial Park51 Islamic community center and mosque located two blocks from Ground Zero earlier this month applied for roughly $5 million in federal grant money set aside for the redevelopment of lower Manhattan after the attacks of September 11th, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The audacious move stands to reignite the embers of a divisive debate that dominated headlines surrounding the ninth anniversary of the attacks this fall, say people vested in the issue.
The application was submitted under a “community and cultural enhancement” grant program administered by the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation (LMDC), which oversaw the $20 billion in federal aid allocated in the wake of 9/11 and is currently doling out millions in remaining taxpayer funds for community development. The redevelopment board declined to comment on the application (as did officials from Park51), citing the still ongoing and confidential process of determining the grant winners.
While news of the application has not previously been made public, developer Sharif El-Gamal outlined it in closed-door meetings, according to two individuals he spoke with directly. The thirtysomething, Brooklyn-born El-Gamal is motivated more by real estate ambition—one of these sources describes him as aspiring to be the next Donald Trump—than Islamic theology or ideology...
According to an individual familiar with the Park51 application, it requests funds to cover a number of cultural, educational and community development aspects of the proposed 13-story building—but the prayer room is excluded from the grant application.
But the question on whether they could have is trumped by the question of whether they should have. The stated aim of the Park51 developers is to provide a community center for lower Manhattan’s 4,000 Muslim residents. Their own website explained that they understood the need to “appeal to the undecided, and change the conversation about Muslims in America.” It’s pretty clear that this play for federal dollars will generate none of that, starting with the lack of disclosure or community consultation before developers submitted their application, which was due November 5th....
They have no reason to. They are cultural imperialists and are receiving no significant pushback.
“These people just don’t know when to back off”.
...they don’t need to. The more they press forward, the more we allow. There’s no stopping them. If a mosque can be built, with the help of taxpayer money, at ground zero for God’s sakes, where’s the limit?
Wonder if this is connected to the Presidential Order that Obama just signed in regard to funding Religious groups.
The ACLU is silent.
No, it isn’t.
They’re doing this while one of their own occupies the White Hut.
They flew occupied planes into occupied buildings, then became America’s #1 victim group, then they had the gall to try to build an indoctrination center near where they brought down the buildings, and now they want to do it with OUR money!
Sad thing is some schmuck in govt. will approve this b.s.
That should be.
HF
If the infidels are dumb enough to pay for their enemy’s monuments, then ...
(And plenty of PC, multicultural infidels are that dumb and dumber.)
Park51 should look into using recycled material from the fallen towers to build their “community center”. I think it’s neatly sorted on Staten Island and ready for “repurposing”.
or some muslim schmuck(s), in government
or the white house itself
How is America going to achieve anything in the mideast to America and the worlds benefit while a muslim sits in the White House empowering islam?
Aint going to happen. We are just being financially and philosophically bled.
Wow, Muslims destroy the World Trade Center and then use our own money to build a Mosque in honor of the destruction. Unbelievable!!!!
Someone should sue them. Maybe that little Greek orthodox church that hasn’t been allowed to rebuild. May any one of millions of people who paid taxes into this fund.
It is not a religion, it is a socio-economic construct. It has one goal, to displace everything it is not. By design islam is treason to the US Constitution. Thus, it deserves no protection as a religion under the law, no special favors under the law and certainly no tax exempt status.
The secular elites in this NY parastate insist on NOT having St Nick’s rebuild.
http://www.goarch.org/special/september11/stnicholaschurch/stnicholas
>>Wonder if this is connected to the Presidential Order that Obama just signed in regard to funding Religious groups.<<
See #10
Jeff Foxworthy on Muslims
IF.....
1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to liquor.
You may be a Muslim
2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes.
You may be a Muslim
3. You have more wives than teeth.
You may be a Muslim
4. You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon unclean.
You may be a Muslim
5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.
You may be a Muslim
6. You can’t think of anyone you haven’t declared Jihad against.
You may be a Muslim
7. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing.
You may be a Muslim
8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.
You may be a Muslim
9. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least four.
You may be a Muslim
10.Your cousin is president of the United States .
You may be a Muslim
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