Wait, Is That a Kaaba at Ground Zero?

PJMedia ^ | 8/04/2025 | Robert Spencer

[MacNaughton]

Did the jihadis get their victory monument after all?

Tablet magazine published a lengthy (over 8,000 words) and thought-provoking article Wednesday calling attention to a startling fact: “a modernist version of the Kaaba, the distinctive cubelike shrine at the heart of the Islamic faith,” now stands “adjacent to the footprint of the Twin Towers, which were destroyed by al-Qaida terrorists on 9/11.” This cube shape “not only reproduces the form of the Kaaba, but also slyly replicates several of the distinctive features of the chief shrine of Islam, including its fabric covering, known as the Kiswa. The building is also tilted at an angle to its surroundings, so that one corner points directly toward Mecca.” ... Whatever the building at Ground Zero really is, the establishment media won't tell you the facts about it. But at PJ Media, we reveal what the media does its best to conceal.

[MacNaughton]

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 28 books, including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad, The History of Jihad, and The Critical Qur’an. His latest book is Muhammad: A Critical Biography.

One World Trade Center and the Perelman Performing Arts Center (still under construction on the bottom right) in June 2021. The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is located on the block just south.

A diagram showing the areas where debris from American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 fell upon Lower Manhattan during the course of the September 11 Islamic terror attacks. When United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center, part of the plane's landing gear, engine and fuselage came out the north side of the tower and crashed 2 blocks north of the WTC Plaza, through the roof of 45–47 Park Place, and through 2 of its floors.

Artist's rendering of the originally proposed Cordoba House/ Park51, a development originally envisioned as a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The developers hoped to promote an interfaith dialogue within the greater community. Due to its proposed location, 2 blocks north of the World Trade Center site of the 9/11 attacks, the proposed building was widely and controversially referred to as the "Ground Zero Mosque" In May 2016, financing was secured for a 43-story condominium building with room for an Islamic cultural museum adjacent to it at the 49–51 Park Place location. The condominium building, called 45 Park Place, started construction in 2017 and was nearly completed by 2019. Construction of the Islamic cultural space, slated to contain 16,000 square feet (1,500 m2) of space and measure 71 feet (22 m) tall at 51 Park Place, had not begun as of 2025.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

CAUSE AND EFFECT

[frank ballenger]

Some of us remember the Muslims who killed all those Americans on 911 every time we sit on a toilet.

[Deaf Smith]

kaaba…

Isn’t that what Hussein Obama is building in Chicago for his “library”?

[MacNaughton]

[x]

That is the Perelman Performing Arts Center.

With a name like that, you know it’s kosher.

P.S. Somebody tell Robert Spencer that the Freedom Tower isn’t just a skyscraper — it’s also really glad to see him.

[clearcarbon]

"Is That a Kaaba..."

[Jamestown1630]

Seems like quite a stretch to me.

[Carry_Okie]

One is reminded of The Crescent of Embrace.

[Organic Panic]

The first theming the Islamic invaders do is defile and destroy the local churches. I watched it first hand in Germany when Merkel invited her pet turds to the village. Within days the church was vandalized

[Repeal The 17th]

Where is WTC-1 in that diagram?

[doorgunner69]

Surprise, muzzies!

[MacNaughton]

The original WTC-1 is the 1 on the right, with the antenna.

. The new 1 WTC is 1 block to the right (north) of WTC-1.

[Repeal The 17th]

It looks like they are both labeled as WTC-2.

[MacNaughton]

I can see why you would think that. But I checked the original source and it is labeled WTC-1. Below is another vantage map.

[Jeff Chandler]

Oh those wacky New Yorkers!

[TheConservator]

I have always thought GWB should have ordered the nuking of Mecca on 9/11. It would have crippled Islam as a religion, because most Muslims literally believed (and still believe) that Allah would never permit the destruction of one of the five pillars of Islam.

[MacNaughton]

US President George W. Bush (R) walks hand-in-hand with Saudi King Abdullah at the G20 Summit at the National Building Museum on November 15, 2008 in Washington. Leaders of the Group of 20 richest economies and emerging economic heavyweights are meeting in Washington to craft a joint strategy to deal with the rapidly spreading global financial crisis.

[SaveFerris]

There is ALWAYS something weird
associated with that guy

[SaveFerris]

I had been noting the coming
financial disaster since 2005

About May of 2008 my Social Justice
boss countered my warning to a guy
in his 20s - I told him to rent,
not buy as real estate was at risk

Four months later was the collapse