The sister of a pilot on one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 said it best: "We have two Imam Raufs." We certainly do. But after all, Muhammad himself said, "War is deceit."
"Imam unmosqued: Ground Zero booster tied to sea clash," by Andy Soltis for the New York Post, June 5 (thanks to all who sent this in):
The imam behind a proposed mosque near Ground Zero is a prominent member of a group that helped sponsor the pro-Palestinian activists who clashed violently with Israeli commandos at sea this week.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a key figure in Malaysian-based Perdana Global Peace Organization, according to its Website.
Perdana is the single biggest donor ($366,000) so far to the Free Gaza Movement, a key organizer of the six-ship flotilla that tried to break Israel's blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip Monday. [...]
Efforts to reach Imam Abdul Rauf yesterday for comment were unsuccessful.
Deborah Burlingame, the sister of the American Airlines pilot whose hijacked plane struck the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, said the indirect ties of the imam to the protesters who confronted Israeli forces Monday were not surprising.
"I think it goes to show he is not the man he represents himself to be. We have two Imam Raufs," she said.
"We have the anti-Israel, anti-democratic imam, and we have the smiling, soft-spoken moderate Muslim who says 'Why can't we all get along?'...
My, what a surprise. The 13-story Imam is linked to a terror group.
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But the name of the terror group ain't the IHH. The real terror group behind the Gaza Flotilla and the 13-Story Mosque is Islam, or maybe the Ummah. Whatever.
http://newstime.co.nz/rally-6th-june-2010-stop-the-mosque-at-ground-zero-in-new-york.html
Update: Critical Journalist Pamela Geller on CNN
about "Stop the mosque at Ground Zero"
LIVE IN PEACE WITH KAFIR
FOR A WHILE ... only a temporary arrangement until the time is right!
Quran 86:13-17
"086.017
PICKTHAL: So give a respite to the disbelievers.
Deal thou gently with them for a while. "
And the chairman of the Perdana Global Peace Organisation (PGPO) is non other than Mahathir Mohamad, the former pime minister of Malaysia.
This organisation seems to be tightly associated to the Malaysian government and I would not be surprised if the Malaysian Government was the major financial backer of this organisation.
Mahathir, who led Malaysia from 1981 to 2003, has long been known for anti-semitic and anti-US statements.
He is also convinced of the fact that 9/11 was the work of the CIA.
This is what the chaiman (Mahathir Mohamad) had to say about 9/11;
In 2006 he had a 2-hour talk with James W. Walter and William Rodriguez with regards to the US Government involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
In January 2010, Mahathir stated the September 11 attacks, conducted by Arab Muslim terrorists and coordinatedOsama bin Laden would have been "staged" by a US government conspiracy to justify attacking Muslims, a 9/11 conspiracy theory.
He also said he was "more sensitive to the victims as I am saying this is done deliberately" and rejected comments that interpreted his statement as a publicity stunt.
In another interview on January 21, 2010 he said on Wednesday there was “strong evidence” the US faked the September 11 terror attacks as an excuse to go to war against Muslims.“There is strong evidence that the attacks were staged. If they can make Avatar, they can make anything,’ Mahathir told the Conference for the Support of Al-Quds (Jerusalem), as quoted by local media.The former premier also blamed Jews for hindering progress in US foreign policy. Voicing his disappointment that Barack Obama had not yet ended the war in Afghanistan or closed the US terror detention center at Guantanamo, he explained that “there are forces in the United States which prevent the president from doing some things. One of the forces is the Jewish lobby.
Oh yeah, the Jewish lobby, Elders of Zion....
Guess what he had to say about the Jews;
He added Jews "had always been a problem in European countries. They had to be confined to ghettoes and periodically massacred.
But still they remained, they thrived and they held whole governments to ransom...
Even after their massacre by the Nazis of Germany, they survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for the world."
It doesn't worry me THAT he thinks all that, the majority of muslims share that view. It worries me that HE thinks that. He is not some bum of the street but the former prime minister of a country for God's sake!
And guess who was also on board the 1200-ton Rachel Corrie which was purchased through a special fund set up by former Malaysian Prime Minister and Perdana Global Peace Organisation (PGPO) chairman Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad?
Well, it was Matthias Chang who once served as the Political Secretary to Mahathir Mohamad.
He is the author of the following books;
“Future FastForward”,
The Zionist Anglo-American Empire Meltdown
“Brainwashed for War, Programmed to Kill”
The Zionist Global War Agenda
Have a look on his wensite...
http://futurefastforward.com/about
I wonder what he thinks about those Jews..?
9/11 mosque anybody?
Another interfaith meeting?
Hi Andy,
You left out the other members of this very questionable "peace" group.
Francis Boyle
Matthias Chang
Helen Caldicott
Alfred Webre
Leuren Moret
Perhaps Rauf's nice CFR, Aspen Institute friends would be interested to know that he hangs out with these weirdos.
the best flotilla response so far.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg
I wonder if Caesar Bloomberg is aware of this story.
Could it be that Imam Rauf fraudulently claimed to have received a Master of Science degree?
http://www.moorthymuthuswamy.com/Imam_Feisal_Abdul_Rauf.pdf
That fits like hand in glove. Terrorists of all countries unite!
Workers of New York Unite!!......union and non-union.........refuse to work on this disgusting mosque (in Arabic mosque is 'masjid' meaning, "place of battle") near Ground Zero. Out of respect for your city, the victims of 9/11, your troops and Vets and your country. No workers, no mosque...................(readers: please pass this on and post on any and all websites. We can stop this insult)
Seems that this Iman isn't the only terrorist(s) that was involved with this flotilla group. A couple of Obama's close buddies from the radical past were also:
Seems our President's ole' terrorist, bomber buddies of the past are closely involved with the flotilla and its organizers. "Never let a good crisis go to waste and if there isn't one, manufacture one!
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/ayers-dohrn-helped-organize-flotilla-group-95435639.html
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/klein-ayers-dohrn-top-activists-in-gaza-flotilla-group/
Arab Nazi's: http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=27986
Israel forced to apologise for YouTube spoof of Gaza flotilla
http://www.perdana4peace.org/Default.aspx
For those who care . . .
The Andy Soltis who covered this story for the NYP is the same Andrew Soltis who writes chess books, and for many years has written a column Chess Life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Soltis
WELL, *I* sat down and watched it and I thought it was hilarious and I think they have nothing to apologise for whatsoever.
And I suspect hundreds of thousands of other non-Muslims, both Jewish and non-Jewish, have enjoyed it likewise.
Hey - maybe some of our Indian friends can contact them and see about dubbing the clip into Hindi?
I hope they do more such spoofs. They've got talent.
Hi MoorthyM,
That is very interesting. I will pass this around.
Also, thanks for writing your book.
http://www.amazon.com/Defeating-Political-Islam-New-Cold/dp/1591027047
A great expose of Feisal Abdul Rauf.
And the so-called pro-Palestinian activists are traitors to Western civilization and groupies for the Islamo-Nazi enemy.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.