In Big Government today, Pamela Geller and I wrote this article about the 9/11 mosque and the shady leader of the project, Feisal Abdul Rauf:
A massive fifteen-story mosque and Islamic Center going up in what was once the shadow of the World Trade Center claims to offer "the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11." The Center organizers, the America Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), have worked hard in the media to portray themselves as Islamic moderates working for peace on the exact spot where their belligerent coreligionists perpetrated murder and mayhem in the name of their religion. But the words and deeds of the leader of the effort, the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, suggests a more ominous reality: Abdul Rauf is a master of deceptive, Orwellian use of language, manifesting a deep contempt for non-Muslims and full accord with the supremacist goals of the 9/11 hijackers.So anxious were they to secure the location at Ground Zero that a Muslim real estate company paid $4.85 million in cash for the building, with part coming from Abdul Rauf's other Islamic group, the Cordoba Initiative. It is unnerving - the deliberate speed and anxiousness that the leader of the American Society for Muslim Advancement has demonstrated in working to open a mosque at the gaping wound of Ground Zero. He claims that it will heal that wound. But how will it do that? How will a mosque, the place where jihadis go for spiritual sustenance, at Ground Zero help stop jihad terrorism? Even the name of the initiative - Cordoba - speaks volumes. While Islamic Spain is held up today as a proto-multiculturalist paradise, in reality non-Muslims there suffered under the discrimination prescribed in Islamic law for dhimmis, non-believers who were subjugated as inferiors and denied equality of rights.
"he claims it will heal the wound".....
where is that logic coming from? IMO it will deepen the wound, if anything it will open the wound again and start it festering.
All the time I hear how they want us to be "sensitive" to their "plight". Please.
They are not sensitive to our way of life, or our religion. Why is it always a one way street with them? (rhetorical question).
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is drinking the Kool-Aid.
Is a giant mosque at Ground Zero justified?
By SHMULEY BOTEACH
17/05/2010 21:43
"While it would be the height of insensitivity to build a Muslim shrine at the resting place of 3,000 Americans murdered by Islamic terrorists, America is a TOLERANT (emphasis mine) country that allows for free worship...."
Read it:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=175807
Talkback #33.
R. Boteach is a dupe; an easy mark
Author: Steve
Country:
18/05/2010 13:21
Who could possibly object to Muslims calling faithful Muslims like Osama bin Laden what they are? Devout Muslims. These devout Muslims "are defiling, perverting and destroying a great world religion." "Their actions are an abomination to authentic Islamic teachings." This rabbi is playing the part of a patsy; a sucker.....Boteach looks for empty condemnations, platitudes; symbolism. R. Boteach aids Islam in its quest to conquer the west, even as he reduces our will to fight and survive.
"He claims that it will heal that wound."
No it won't. What a lie. The best way for a wound to heal is to completely remove the irritant.
We get it, truthophobes. Here's the truth: you are building that monstrosity near Ground Zero so you can dance on the graves of those that were murdered on 9/11 -- like some kind of sick 'n twisted victory monument to allah. You will never sell us on the lie that this will bring about healing. Quite the contrary, and you know it.
Exactly champ!
Any normal group seeing the disapproval that is rampant would have "postponed" or "re-evaluated" their plans. Not these guy, no way. And..there is a SECOND mosque proposed now, on the other side of Ground Zero, even closer.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/17/muslims-nyc-planning-build-second-smaller-mosque-near-ground-zero/
Just makes me fume...
What! ...a second mosque? This is a double slap in the face!!
Thanks for providing that link, Gymgal :)
Well, there goes the neighborhood. Only think what wonderful people will be drawn to this wonderful mosque.
To me, the "mosque" part has the sound of an a la carte kind of thing, which is to say that probably no real services will be held except for Ramadan, maybe.
In actuality, it will probably be a place for tourist riff-raff to bang their heads against the floor, while they thank their illah that Muslims have "arrived".
If they can make it there, they'll make it anywhere...
The whole of islam is one big Charade of Peace ...
If they manage to build it, you could always blow it up at it's opening 'prayer' meeting.
Then announce plans to build a cathedral on top of it, as it will "help heal the wound".
This is an attempt at the total humiliation of islams perceived 'greatest enemy'. If the attempt succeeds then it is the moral dhimmification of the nation.
I have every faith that the man on the street in the USA will willingly let this happen.
Just a couple of hours after hell freezes over.
So anxious were they to secure the location at Ground Zero that a Muslim real estate company paid $4.85 million in cash for the building
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Yes—and what sort of building did these so-anxious Muslims purchase? A severely damaged retail store—so badly damaged because it had an airplane's landing gear punch through the roof one fine day back in September of 2001.
Here's a NYT slideshow—the first picture shows Muslims gathered like ghouls outside the old Burlington Coat Factory retail outlet, the second shows them ass-upwards worshipping where innocent Infidels sold sweaters and jackets in saner days:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/12/08/nyregion/MOSQUE_SS_index.html
"...it's a well known Islamic tradition to build on top of an area that you've conquered." - Daniel Pipes
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2010/May/Ground-Zero-Mosque-Olive-Branch-or-Soft-Jihad/
Build it. U.S. citizens and businesses will earn money from it being built and then moslems can watch it crumble before it ever gets used for its intended purpose.
Everyone:
Please read the ineffable Sultan Knish's (aka Daniel Greenfield) article on the 9/11 mosque. It can be found at sultanknish.blogspot.com. The article was posted Sunday, May 16, and is entitled "The Ground Zero Mosque - First You Bomb, Then You Occupy."
Essential stuff. Please, please, read it.
Gymgal wrote:
And..there is a SECOND mosque proposed now, on the other side of Ground Zero, even closer.
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Thanks for posting this, Gymgal—I'd already heard about this. It may "slip under the radar" even if the 15-story monstrosity does not.
Here's an appalling line from the article:
In fact, the website appealing for donations boldly states that it plans to “build the 'House of Allah' next to the World Trade Center. Help us raise the flag of 'LA ILLAH ILLA ALLAH' in downtown Manhattan."
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I think they already tried to "raise the flag" of Allah on 9/11.
Thanks for the links, Graven & Gymgal. This whole thing is such an outrage that it defies description. I can't think of anything more debasing and dishonorable. The slideshow really drives that home, though it made me a little nauseous--I think it was the garbed muslim; or was it the landing-gear strut?
Will we humble ourselves before "Slick" Rauf?
God, how I hope not...
I simply can't believe that every US citizen hasn't seen through this obscene travesty as have all the posters here on JW. It's sole purpose is to humiliate and colonize.
I pray that my American friends will be moved to prevent the unspeakable desecration of such a sacred site by whatever means necessary, including massive civil disobedience.
Surely this is the point at which a line in the sand must be drawn.
Islam has manouvered and embedded itself into a position to undermne the values and institutions of the West with an intellectual cunning, moral effrontery, and indecent rapidity that post 9/11, must be further confirmation of divine assistance than its dunderheaded enablers are yet to realise. Although they believed that Islam could be used tactically for their own ends, their unschooled complancency is hiding the fact that it is Islam that is strategically exploiting them.
Because you don't build aircraft carriers, or look quaint, does not mean that you can't think ahead.
For their own sakes, at least,the educated(sic)governances should have heeded the old boxing adage: 'Never,never,underestimate your opponent'.
Where are the families & friends of the victims?!
Where is the coward Jim Richie Sr., whose son Jim died on 9/11?!! The coward keeps obcessively taking it out on hero Rudy Giuliani instead of directing his anger at the murderers of his son.
Robert, SIOA, address them publicly! Shame them into joining you in protests!
Ruslan tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Observing this grotesque travesty unfold, I find it very troubling that such a ghoulish affront to our nationhood is being contemplated. Am I to believe such a physical assault might actually be allowed? This repugnant insult, could not germinate, let alone bloom, in the Western US where I am so fortunate to reside. New York City, have you no shame? Is the core of your self image so blighted there remains no humiliation you will not willingly endure. You're depraved attacker swaggers toward you a second time.... while your horror stricken family watches in complete and utter revulsion.