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Feds move to seize 4 mosques, skyscraper
www.wfaa.com ^ | 11-12-2009 | Associated Press

Posted on 11/12/2009 2:11:26 PM PST by Cygnus Rising

NEW YORK -- Federal prosecutors are taking steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization.

The organization -- called the Alavi Foundation -- has long been suspected of being under Iranian government control. Prosecutors say the foundation has been helping to illegally funnel money back to the Iranian government.

The government filed a forfeiture action in federal court in New York to seize four mosques in the city and in Maryland, California and Houston. The government also wants to take control of a 36-story office tower on New York's Fifth Avenue.

The filing starts what could be a drawn-out legal process.

The action against the Shiite Muslim mosques is sure to inflame relations between the U.S. government and American Muslims. Many of them are fearful of a backlash after last week's Fort Hood shooting rampage, blamed on a Muslim American soldier.

The mosques and the office tower will remain open while the forfeiture case works its way through court.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bhodoj; duplicate; iran; mosque; muslim; nyc; waronterror

1 posted on 11/12/2009 2:11:27 PM PST by Cygnus Rising
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To: Fred Nerks

Ping to Federal seizure of 3 NY Mosques. ( Token actions? )


2 posted on 11/12/2009 2:13:16 PM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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To: Cygnus Rising
Stop Jihad Now!

Jihad is NOT the Answer!

What if they gave a Jihad and nobody came?

3 posted on 11/12/2009 2:16:51 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Cygnus Rising

It’s about time!


4 posted on 11/12/2009 2:18:49 PM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: Candor7

“The action against the Shiite Muslim mosques is sure to inflame relations between the U.S. government and American Muslims...”

This is the United States of America. You follow United States LAWS! If they don’t like it, “F” THEM!


5 posted on 11/12/2009 2:20:30 PM PST by WellyP
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To: Cygnus Rising
If they run Brothels
I guess the Feds can manage
A few Shiite Mosques.
6 posted on 11/12/2009 2:25:55 PM PST by Haiku Guy (If You have a Right / To the Service I provide / I must be Your Slave)
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To: Cygnus Rising

Somewhere I heard there would be arrests today, but I cannot confirm.


7 posted on 11/12/2009 2:30:40 PM PST by HonestConservative (http://www.doughoffmanforcongress.com)
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To: Cygnus Rising

4 jihadi indoctrination centers seized.


8 posted on 11/12/2009 2:34:41 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Cygnus Rising

Where in California?


9 posted on 11/12/2009 2:40:10 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Cygnus Rising

What will they do with the confiscated mosques?

I know—open some Kosher Delis.


10 posted on 11/12/2009 2:40:12 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Candor7
The action against the Shiite Muslim mosques is sure to inflame relations between the U.S. government and American Muslims.

thinking...he's a Sunni like his father...who converted to 'pure' islam and made the hadjj.

Wait and see who protests. That will identify the sect to which they belong.


11 posted on 11/12/2009 2:41:37 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Cicero

Probably open abortion clinics?
Open Military surplus stores to sell the existing
inventory?

Broad cast the Amish call to prayer over loud speakers?


12 posted on 11/12/2009 2:42:21 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Haiku Guy

The government can’t even run a wh—e houes! They LOST MONEY while they were in the brothel business!


13 posted on 11/12/2009 2:43:21 PM PST by WellyP
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To: Paladin2

You forgot “Make Kielbasa, Not Jihad!”


14 posted on 11/12/2009 2:44:52 PM PST by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: Cygnus Rising

“The filing starts what could be a drawn-out legal process.”

So, how long do you think this will take? Or, was the process started a while back and we’re just hearing about it?


15 posted on 11/12/2009 2:45:14 PM PST by mark3681
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To: Fred Nerks

This is going to be an interesting process. Iran was using the non profit as a laundry to illegally transfer money from the USA.

I bet the Feds knew this was happening for quite some time.

It will be interesting to see if they are Shi’ite or not.


16 posted on 11/12/2009 2:50:55 PM PST by Candor7 (The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
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To: Candor7
It will be interesting to see if they are Shi’ite or not.

The article identifies the mosques as shiite. Populated by a shiite majority, Iran is the greatest enemy Sunni Saudi Arabia has...

17 posted on 11/12/2009 2:57:14 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Fred Nerks
Iran is the greatest enemy Sunni Saudi Arabia has...

And Sunni Saudi Arabia is the funding source for most radical Imams and mosques in the U.S.

18 posted on 11/12/2009 3:13:41 PM PST by browardchad ("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own fact." - Daniel P Moynihan)
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To: browardchad; Candor7
And Sunni Saudi Arabia is the funding source for most radical Imams and mosques in the U.S.

Yes. And they will continue to be protected. Money for shiites goes OUT of the country. Money for sunni activities comes IN.

The NY Times interviews the richest Arab in the world, who just gave $40m to Harvard and Georgetown

19 posted on 11/12/2009 3:36:20 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: tet68
Broad cast the Amish call to prayer over loud speakers?

Hey! And interspersed with Christmas carols. Then a little bit of country music, and finally Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

The loudspeakers may have a splendid use after all.

20 posted on 11/12/2009 3:47:43 PM PST by Ole Okie (Aged American)
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