Great! So we get to pay for their VICTORY mosque!
Is this a great country or what!
Of course if St. Nicholas’ Church applied for the same money it would be rejected on “church-state-separation” grounds. Apparently it is OK to combine mosque and state.
Looks to me like New Yorkers are, by and large, a self-loathing, self destructive lot. If they had any balls, they would be 1 million deep at the WTC site, demanding the “Victory Mosque” be scrapped.
Even I, the world’s great cynic since the age of 14, could not have anticipated THIS outrage! Interestingly, the mere
proposal or application for a ‘grant’ is premised on the idea that they are already legitimized as a group on equal footing with just about everyone else who can apply for grants, like non-profits, etc.
I must commend them on their shrewdness-—at least on the face of it, they are playing their cards from angles that are bound to appeal to their enablers. From everyone else’s perspective though, this looks like a new and unprecedented form of overreaching.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s trip to New York City reportedly expanded beyond meeting with foreign dignitaries at the United Nations. According to the New York Post, the Iranian president’s six-night stay also included a “secret sit-down” with militant Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan and members of the New Black Panther Party:
The president shared a hush-hush meal with Farrakhan and members of the New Black Panther Party Tuesday at the Warwick Hotel on West 54th Street.
The meeting of the podium smackers took place in a banquet room, where the fiery leaders presumably exchanged theories on what’s wrong with the world.
Chutzpah is killing your parents and then asking the jury for sympathy because you’re orphans, or flying planes into buildings and then asking for money to open a center that teaches that it’s OK to kill Christians and Jews a short distance from the empty hole that was the buildings that you flew the bleeding planes into.
Talk about adding salt to the wound. Holy cow!!!
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
-Vladimir Lenin
OK. Up until now the only argument they had going for them was that it was a private business transaction, and we the people really didn’t have anything to say about it.
But now that they are asking for MY MONEY, I think I do have a say. And so now I say - HELL NO.
No way you are getting me to let you take my tax dollars to pay for your religion.
And now we are going to pay for this B/S too!
I hang on the hope that some talented nut case will come out for his 15 minutes of fame.
Watch for 0bama to fast-track this one.
Give it to them.. in lead!
could? COULD??? COULD!!!
Interesting, though, that their going after the 9/11 redevelopment money helps to prove that it is in a sensitive area. And using Federal money to establish a church? That should cause some "separation anxiety," shouldn't it?
Once upon a time there was an Arab who wanted to cross a wide desert. So he fed and watered his camel well, and got all necessary supplies, and started out. The very first afternoon, a sandstorm began to blow. The Arab got off his Camel and pitched his tent and climbed in, to wait out the storm.After a while, the Camel said, "Master, pray let me put my nose under your tent, for the sand is blowing in my nose. If I suffocate, I cannot carry you across the desert." So the Arab let the camel put his nose under the tent.
Shortly thereafter, the Camel said, "Pray, Master, let me put my eyes under your tent, because the sand is blowing in my eyes, and if I go blind, I cannot carry you across the desert." So the Arab let the Camel put his eyes under the tent.
THEN after a suitable delay, the Camel asked, "Pray, let me put my ears under your tent, as the sand is blowing in my ears."
This was shortly followed by, "The sand is blowing on the cut on my shoulder, Pray let me put my Shoulder under your tent." So the Arab let the Camel put his shoulder under the tent. And shortly thereafter the Camel pushed the Arab out of his own tent.
The day that a Jew is appointed to that BoD is the day Rauf gets a fatwah on his head.
Prepare to have $5M of your taxpayer dollars confiscated and given to the Islamists to build a victory mosque at ground zero.
A Federal grant for a spit in your face mosque? Nuke the corrupt bastards to hell!!
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