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December 17, 2009
Mysterious MUSLIM Group Buys Building Next to Ground Zero For Mosque
Worshipers exit the old Burlington Coat Factory near ground zero, which now houses a prayer space.
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Parts of a landing gear from one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center on 9/11 broke through the roof and two floors. The Burlington Coat Factory had not yet opened, and employees were having breakfast in the basement.
Mosque At the World Trade Center: Muslim Renewal Or Insult Near Ground Zero
An identified group with unknown sponsors has purchased building steps away from where the WorldTrade Center once stood — to turn it into potentially one of the largest New York City mosques.
At the moment the building, the old Burlington Coat Factory, already serves as a mini-mosque: an iron grill lifts every Friday afternoon for a little known Imam leading prayers a few yards away from where Osama Bin Laden’s airborne Islamist bombers killed nearly 3000 people back in 2001.
The Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, told the New York Times — which put the story on its front page Wednesday — that he has assembled several million dollars to turn it into ‘’an Islamic center near the city’s most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero’s more unexpected and striking neighbors.’’
The 61-year-old Imam said he paid $4.85 million for it — in cash, records show. With 50,000 square feet of air rights and enough financing, he plans an ambitious project of $150 million, he said, akin to the Chautauqua Institution, the 92 Street Y or the Jewish Community Center.
The origins of such monies are unexplained; neither are the countries or entity advancing such huge donations. Most US mosques, including many in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx are funded directly or indirectly by Saudi Arabia the country to which 15 of the 19 hijackers who bombed the World TradeCenter belonged. The UAE, Qatar and Iran are other major sponsors across the USA.
The money trail is an important question that must be answered by the Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg with more than a bland comment by one of his spokesmen, Andrew Brent, who quipped to the Times, “If it’s legal, the building owners have a right to do what they want.”
At the moment, the location is not designated a mosque, but rather an overflow prayer space for another mosque, Al Farah, at 245 West Broadway in TriBeCa, where Imam Feisal is the spiritual leader. Call this creeping annexation. On 9/11, the Burlington building, with 80 employees in its basement, is where a piece of a plane plunged through the roof, from either Flight 11 or Flight 175 crashing into the south tower at 9:03 a.m..
As a former New York Times and Wall Street Journal correspondent, and as a New York Sun columnist who covered Islamic Fundamentalism extensively overseas and in the USA, I find the facts oddly lacking. The story as reported fails to answer, and avoid asking, so many pertinent questions.
The source of money matters as a significant part of the hundreds of mosques being built and already erected in this country double up as cultural Islamic centers for distributing literature-- Islamist propaganda in fact—from Bay Ridge Brooklyn to Detroit, and for schooling growing Muslim minorities. They house Imams of unknown origin and education, many of whom do not speak a word of English but preach in Arabic and Urdu -- radical messages, it often turns out.
As a reporter familiar with the Arab communities of the USA, I doubt the faithful fork out all that money for mega mosques, and if they did, the mayor’s office should prove it, not merely accept someone’s say so. It is an established fact that a significant percentage of the mosques built in the USA in the past two decades are receiving a disproportionate amount of their funds not only from the Saudis, but also the UAE, Qatar and Iran -- all problematic Islamists activist nations. The government just discontinued work on a major Iranian-funded mosque and center in New York City, which had operated under the radar since the days of the good old Shah of Iran under the auspices of the Pahlavi Foundation, and has beenowned since 1979 by the Mullahs of Iran.
The context here is that 15 of the 19 perpetrators of the attacks -- on the very site where this new mosque shall rise -- came from Saudi Arabia.
We saw how, in the case of Major Nidal Hasan of Ft. Hood, it turned out that three of the original participants in 9/11 had listened to the same preacher Major Hasan listened to: a man with a radical violent Islamic website now operating out of Yemen to radicalize American Muslims. In such a context,knowing more about the Imam overseeing a potential multimillion mosque at the World Trade Center site is essential to the story. Nearly 3,000 people were deliberately killed there – and the New York Times is papering over what is about to be built on the site in a nice, beatific pseudo-profile of the Imamoverseeing the mosque? Limiting access to this Imam to some nice quotes, showing him nattily dressed in a suit, and describing him merely as a Sufi, is vacuous, crafted and couched in public relations spin to obscure rather than explain. ‘’What happened that day was not Islam’’ is all that the Times quotes the Imam saying -- a rather lame comment given the enormity of his ambition and the iconic status of where he wants to put his mosque.
The mayor’s office should tell us more.
Just as importantly, who Is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf ? And what is his background? Given that much Islamist radicalism originated in mosques at the hands of imams in virtually all the terrorist attacks inAmerica and Europe -- as we found over and over again – the omission of this information is a glaring mishap.
All we get learn about the Imam in the Times story about him is some anodyne, rather anemic, focus on a man of peace. No real searching. Mayor Bloomberg’s folks need to tell us what are the Imam’s origins, where he was schooled, whether he is an immigrant, a visitor, of which country is he a citizen, and what is his philosophy, among other relevant questions.
This story has also been picked up by FOX News
Mysterious Group Buys Building Next to Ground Zero for Mosque
A mysterous Muslim group with unknown sponsors has purchased a building steps away from Ground Zero.Hudson New York reported:
An identified group with unknown sponsors has purchased building steps away from where the WorldTrade Center once stood — to turn it into potentially one of the largest New York City mosques.
At the moment the building, the old Burlington Coat Factory, already serves as a mini-mosque: an iron grill lifts every Friday afternoon for a little known Imam leading prayers a few yards away from where Osama Bin Laden’s airborne Islamist bombers killed nearly 3000 people back in 2001.
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Wild Thing's comment.........
It needs to be destroyed before it even goes up. This is an abomination! They are going out of their way to slap us in the face again. Who could have been so inhuman as to sell them that property? The address is 45 Park Place which is 2 blocks north of Ground Zero.
This is an in-your-face disgusting move by the Muzzies and once again shows why you can’t trust any of them because it is impossible to tell the good from the evil.
This must not go forward. And why is this puke in our country, anyway?
Some comments from the "Imam":
"Imam Feisal said it was Christians who started mass attacks on civilians.
"The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians. But it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets."
"He said there was an endless supply of angry young Muslim rebels prepared to die for their cause and there was no sign of the attacks ending unless there was a fundamental change in the world.
"Imam Feisal said there could be little progress until the US acknowledged backing dictators and the US President gave an "America Culpa" speech to the Muslim world.
......Thank you RAC for sending this to me.
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Posted by Wild Thing at December 17, 2009 03:55 AM
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"The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians."...
Since when, what about the Homocide bombings in Israel, all the civilian contractors in Iraq, the Reporters, Daniel Pearle for one. There are many more. They wage war on their own families.
Evidently he's forgotten about his hero Adolf Hitler, who was the first to wage war on civilians in London, like the muzzies, he couldn't beat the Royal Air Force so decided to bomb the cities of Britain. Like their lovely counterparts the Japs, did the same thing, waged war on Civilians in China, Korea, the Phillipines and any other place they went. This idiot sounds just like obama.
Islam has been losing wars consistantly for over a thousand years, you'd think they'd learn. They're just not any good at it.
Putting a mosk that close to a National Shrine is a slap in the face of Uncle Sam and every American. Bloomberg should grow a pair and kick them the hell out of the city.
Posted by: Mark at December 17, 2009 07:44 AM
My question is why were they allowed to buy it in the first place? It's obviously not to do a retail business and it's not a school. Why did NY allow them to buy? Have we forgotten so quickly what Islam did on 911 to our great nation? That those who perished died for nothing? This is a kick in the butt to the families who are trying to move on with their lives without someone and can't. Or as my 7 year old said once, "a kick in the privates (she used another word, but I won't mention it here). She knows what they did and how horribly wrong it is to coddle them.
Posted by: Lynn at December 17, 2009 08:13 AM
The muslims are winning the cultural war. A mosque next to Ground Zero is a sublime victory for the muslims. We should have stopped all mosque building and muslim immigration on 9-12-01. America will pay for not taking more action against muslims in America after we were attacked.
Posted by: TomR at December 17, 2009 09:42 AM
This is "in your face" stuff and they know it.
Hopefully the Trade Unions will refuse to work on a Mosque that close to ground zero.
Posted by: BobF at December 17, 2009 10:15 AM
If it were up to me, every mosque on earth would be burned to the ground along with everything and everyone in them. Islam is a filthy cult and the cause of most of the violence around the world. It needs to be eliminated once and for all.
BTW, Happy Hanukkah to all! :}
Posted by: Eddie (Enemy of the State) at December 17, 2009 02:58 PM
Revelations 16, Obama and Iran, Just let them have it all. Where is the outrage?
Posted by: Jack at December 17, 2009 03:28 PM
I wonder if there are New Yorkers that
are joining together to stop this. Just
curious, because they should be.
I agree Lynn they better find out who brought this
and all the people connected to this terrible idea.
Happy Hanukkah Eddie!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 17, 2009 11:54 PM
Wonder who bought off the zoning commission for this effort, eh?
Posted by: Ivor at December 18, 2009 02:48 PM
