Posted on 12/29/2010 8:12:21 PM PST by jazusamo
Complete title: Mayor Bloomberg’s Office Spearheaded Drive for Ground Zero Mosque Approval According to Documents Uncovered by Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s office that show his office was instrumental in helping Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, his wife Daisy Khan and their partner Sharif el-Gamal obtain approval for a massive mosque and “community center” to be built in the shadow of Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch pursuant to an open records request and related lawsuit, included email correspondence between top officials inside the Mayor’s office and supporters of the Ground Zero Mosque, a project spearheaded by the Rauf-led Cordoba Initiative. Among the highlights:
“The Borough President (and Councilmember Chin) have a firm policy at speaking up at public agencies only after the community board has taken a position on an item. So withdrawing the resolution may affect their thinking about how helpful they can be on June 22. That in itself may not be fatal to getting [the site] de-designated but I do know that [Landmark Commission] Chairman Tierney was looking forward to having the ‘political cover’ their support would bring him.” The Landmark Commission ultimately decided to de-designate the property.
In July 2010, Mayor Bloomberg told reporters it was “un-American” to investigate the individuals behind the Ground Zero Mosque. Shortly thereafter, on August 9, 2010, Judicial Watch filed Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests with the Mayor’s office, seeking contacts between city officials and Rauf and controversial Muslim organizations. On November 4, 2010, after receiving no response from Mayor Bloomberg’s office to its request and a subsequent administrative appeal, Judicial Watch filed a petition with the New York State Supreme Court to compel the Mayor’s office to comply with the open records requests. Judicial Watch received the documents just before Christmas on December 23, 2010.
“These new documents show that Mayor Bloomberg’s office was working hand in glove with the Muslim activists driving the unpopular Ground Zero mosque project. Now we know what the Mayor was trying to hide and why his office couldn’t bother to comply with the Freedom of Information Law. New Yorkers want honesty and transparency from their Mayor, not obfuscation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Rauf has made a number of radical and controversial statements regarding Islamic extremism, particularly the terrorist attacks of 9/11. For example, during a 60 Minutes interview about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rauf said: “I wouldn’t say that the United States deserved what happened. But the United States’ policies were an accessory to the crime that happened…we have been an accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world. In fact, in the most direct sense, Osama bin Laden is made in the USA.”
It’s separation of Church and State.
Not separation of Mosque and State.
You bigots need to learn.
/sarc
He’s only mayor by default. The City deserves better.
This clown won’t even plow the streets in his own city.
Bloombutt is finished. He just wants us to fight Israel’s wars anyway with your gay sons and your money.
Amen to that.
Sixty-five percent of New York City residents opposed the mosque. A majority approved a third term for this clown. How many have buyers remorse? How is that chance for a presidency working out for this clown?
A Bloomberg Company I read is heavily invested in UAE creating computer programs for Sharia Banking, or something of that sort. It’s been awhile since I read about that, but not before this Cordoba House, Ground Zero Mosque, whatever it is this week issue exploded on the scene.
Whatever, Bloomberg stands to increase his value with this, and to “H” with America. The guy isn’t much different than that other POS Soros.
Eh, come again?
I couldn't agree more. It's evident he puts his fortune before the good of the city, state or country.
He was to busy on his knees to his money client in the mid east to worry about the voters in New York and the problem they face with the snow.
Hey N.Y you got what you voted for so suck it up.
To bad those who did not vote for this arrogant POS have to also suffer.
Money talks, voters walk.
He was to busy on his knees to his money client in the mid east to worry about the voters in New York and the problem they face with the snow.
Hey N.Y you got what you voted for so suck it up.
To bad those who did not vote for this arrogant POS have to also suffer.
Money talks, voters walk.
They guy goes out of his way to harm Christians in New York but goes out of his way to facilitate fascist Islam dominance in New York.
I guess all the wealthy globalists, from Europe to the US, have the same game plan. Use Islam as a battering ram to weaken and harm the Nations they want to take over.
New York deserves what it gets for placing such anti-American creeps in power. Americans had best make clear that we are not playing the game and outlaw Shira and Islam preferences.
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