NYC community board OKs ground zero mosque plans
NEW YORK (AP)
After hours of contentious public comment, a New York City community board voted late Tuesday to support a plan to build a mosque and cultural center near ground zero.
“It’s a seed of peace,” board member Rob Townley said. “We believe that this is significant step in the Muslim community to counteract the hate and fanaticism in the minority of the community.”
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FOX Hannity’s show
The ‘Cordoba Initiative’ has announced plans to build a $100-million plus mosque overlooking Ground Zero at the World Trade Center.
Its leader, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, says it “will serve as the platform to launch a broader vision of Muslim-West harmony and interdependence.” As he has made clear, Rauf supports supplementing our Constitution by making sharia law optional — optional at least for now — for Muslims living here in America. Debra Burlingame and Robert Spencer discussed this last night on-air with Sean Hannity.
IMAM FEISAL ABDUL RAUF, BEHIND GROUND ZERO MOSQUE: We have the right to build this building as a right. We don’t need any zoning variations. We can just go ahead and build it without permissions or expressions of support from anybody.
BURLINGAME: Yes. But — but when he published this in 2007 in the Muslim world, he didn’t call it “What’s Right With Islam” and a later title, “What’s Right with America.” He called it “A Call to Prayer From the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Da’wah From the Heart of America…”
HANNITY: Meaning?
BURLINGAME: “… Post-9/11.” Robert, tell him what da’wah means.
SPENCER: Da’wah is Islamic proselytizing. And in the Islamic law, da’wah precedes jihad. You call the nonbelievers to Islam. And if they refuse to accept it, then you initiate the jihad against them. But the whole goal of both da’wah and jihad is to impose Islamic law or Sharia upon the nonbelievers as a political system, not as a religious one.
HANNITY: What about the controversy — controversy involving his father?
SPENCER: The controversy involving his father involves the Muslim Brotherhood and the fact that this guy has ties to this group that is, in its own words, “dedicated to eliminating and destroying western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house.”
HANNITY: So you both believe — and as I read this, this is becoming more and more alarming to me. And you have been very nice to give me a copy of the book and tell me about the translation when it was first published, you know, in other countries — that he would want to impose or at least allow for Muslims to have the ability to transcend the American court system.
SPENCER: Oh, yes.
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Wild Thing’s comment……..
God help us all. The vote was 29-to-1 in favor of the plan, with 10 abstentions. Only one didn’t forget. Screw new York city! The Muslims attack it and they give them the keys.
“It’s a seed of peace,” board member Rob Townley said.
It is the seed of surrender that will lead to unending violence. Townley is the worst kind of coward.
“Our Country won’t go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won’t be any AMERICA because some foreign soldier will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!” Chesty Puller
Sharia law and the US constitution are like oil and water. They would have to basically completely destroy the foundation right out from under this country to get even a hint of Sharia law passed.
Muslims have no right to dictate laws in this society !
It is shameful that they have supporters in our government!!!!
IMAM FEISAL ABDUL RAUF, BEHIND GROUND ZERO MOSQUE: We have the right to build this building as a right.
Just like they did on 9/11, they’re using our rights and freedoms against us.
I was born in America and fought a war to keep her safe. Now, I don’t even recognize her nor do I like what she has become.
This is like watching a loved one sound asleep in a burning house — you keep screaming for the sleeper to wake and put the fire out but the flames just keep getting closer and closer. Here, we see a sleeping America and the flames of Islam creeping ever closer. WAKE UP AMERICA the enemy are not at the gates…they are within our borders. You can bet this mosque will be a seat of anti-America / anti-freedom teaching. maybe I’ll open a diner-on-wheels and sell B-B-Q pork ribs on the street in front of the mosque. Just to show them I have no hard feelings and want to open a friendly dialog about our differences (ya, right).
Da’wah is right, that’s what this is. It precedes jihad. Damn straight. NYC should tell this incrementalist snake to pound sand.
cuchieddie(Enemy of the State) sould talk to some of the British WWI vets. Things are so bad over their that the Vets approval of Briton is under 15%
There are three theories of justice. The preventative, The make whole and the natural order. The Constitution is a about preventing infractions aginst citizens, The European is about making whole the harmed party and then the Sharia is about making the harmed party live with it unless they can take vengence. It translates “the way” amd os ,pre cistpm than law.
First, how the muzzies get the zoning variance for a Church in a business district. I am sure the proper palms got greased with 30 pieces of Silver.
Second, there should be a referendum to determine what should go there, a New building, a Memorial, it should be up to the people of New York, not some schmuck in building. This is nothing but a slap in the face of the American People.
Avatar, “The oldest verified World War I veteran is 109-year-old Frank Buckles, born 1 February 1901. World War I veteran Emiliano Mercado del Toro of Puerto Rico (21 August 1891 – 24 January 2007), who died aged 115, is the oldest authenticated veteran, from any conflict, ever to have lived. On 27 May 2008, the last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died at the age of 107.”
So if there is any WW one Veterans left in England that are discontented enough to make a fuss they are
I have seeds of peace loaded in my M1 carbine.