“Describing the controversy as ‘a fabricated issue,’ Mr. El-Gamal, who received death threats at the time, insisted that the scaled-down museum would still achieve his original objective. ‘We are still building an Islamic museum and sanctuary,’ he said.” A “sanctuary”? In this context, that’s a mosque.
And sure, he received death threats. Always claiming victim status. I myself have received numerous death threats that I can readily document. I challenge El-Gamal to document his claim, which the New York Times, of course, repeats uncritically.
The Islamic museum at Ground Zero is just as much of an insult to those who were killed there as the 16-story mega-mosque that El-Gamal originally planned would have been. If it were an honest Islamic museum, showing the true history of jihad conquest and exposing the motivating ideology of the 9/11 jihad mass murderers, it would be welcome and even necessary. But it is sure to be a whitewash. When is the museum dedicated to the achievements of Nazi Germany going up at Auschwitz?
“Condo Tower to Rise Where Muslim Community Center Was Proposed,” by Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, May 12, 2017:
The sales gallery for 45 Park Place, a 43-story condominium that will soon rise three blocks from the World Trade Center, is not unlike the galleries for other luxury condos in New York. Oversize photographs showcase the spectacular views that come with living in a 665-foot tower. The mock kitchen and bathroom offer a glimpse of the refined finishes one would expect in a building with a $41 million duplex penthouse.
But unlike other New York City condos, this one is something of a consolation prize for the developer, and one that is opening in a cooling luxury market. The tower replaces the developer’s 2010 plan to build a 15-story Islamic mosque and cultural center on this site, an idea that erupted into a national controversy and cable news network bonanza.
The mosque’s opponents — among them some families of 9/11 victims, politicians and conservative media pundits — balked at the notion of a mosque so close to the site of the largest attack by Islamic terrorists in the nation’s history. Critics called it the Ground Zero Mosque, the Victory Mosque and a “megamosque.”
Its name was Park51, and the project’s developer, Sharif El-Gamal, the founder of Soho Properties, compared it to the 92nd Street Y, a community gathering space where New Yorkers could go for swimming lessons and lectures.
But by 2011, Mr. El-Gamal bowed to public pressure, little of it local, and abandoned the idea for the cultural center.
The new design replaces Mr. El-Gamal’s vision of a vast space for public gatherings with more standard New York City fare: a very expensive glass and steel tower for the very rich. The site, which extends from 43 to 51 Park Place, will open in 2019 with 50 apartments at 45 Park Place and a much smaller, three-story Islamic museum and public plaza, designed by Jean Nouvel, but no mosque, at 49-51 Park Place.
Gone is the name Park51, although a new name for the museum has not been announced. Mr. El-Gamal’s critics have been largely silent since 2011, even though prayers, events and gatherings continued to be held regularly at 49-51 Park Place until the property closed for demolition in 2015.
Looking back on a period of time that he described as “surreal,” Mr. El-Gamal said: “I wouldn’t change anything. What has transpired here has been an absolute blessing.”
Blessing or not, Mr. El-Gamal is entering the luxury real estate market at a difficult time, with the sales office opening on June 1. Sales of trophy apartments have been lackluster since late 2014. The number of sales of new luxury apartments dropped 25 percent in the first quarter of 2017 from the same time a year ago. During that same period, inventory rose almost 20 percent and new condos sat on the market 49 percent longer, according to a Douglas Elliman report that was prepared by Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers and Consultants. With inventory saturating the top of the market, buyers looking to spend $5 million or more have plenty of options.
“This is yet another high-end project coming on in the last innings of the development cycle,” said Jonathan J. Miller, the president of Miller Samuel.
One-bedrooms at 45 Park Place start at $1.92 million; two-bedrooms at $3.725 million; three-bedrooms at $4.595 million; and four-bedrooms at $10.5 million. The second duplex penthouse will be listed for about $39 million. Michel Abboud, a founding partner of SOMA Architects, designed the tower; Piero Lissoni designed the interiors.
Asking around $3,400 a square foot, 45 Park Place ranks among the most expensive condos in Manhattan. Only 11 buildings have a higher price per square foot, according to data provided by StreetEasy.
Consider 30 Park Place. The Robert A. M. Stern-designed tower is a block away and has a Four Seasons Hotel beneath it. Apartments there start at the 40th floor and are selling for $3,132 a square foot with 82 percent sold, according to StreetEasy. Thirty Park Place has another advantage: The building is open, so buyers do not have to shop from floor plans and wait two years to move in.
“The idea that 45 Park Place would be able to garner a higher price per square foot a block away seems somewhat far-fetched,” said Grant Long, the senior economist for StreetEasy.
Mr. El-Gamal is confident that 45 Park Place, with 11-foot-high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows, will attract buyers eager to live in a high-rise in a neighborhood he describes as TriBeCa. “If I was anywhere else in New York, I would be nervous,” he said, sitting in the offices of Stribling, which is marketing 45 Park Place.
Although the project is marketed as a TriBeCa tower, the area right around 45 Park Place does not have the lofts and the historic ambience of TriBeCa, nor is it within its boundaries. TriBeCa is bounded by Canal Street to the north, West Street to the west, Broadway to the east and Murray Street to the south — which is one block north of Park Place, according to Community Board 1.
At 44, Mr. El-Gamal does not see the outcome of his project as a defeat, but instead as proof of his grit. “Real estate in New York is a blood sport,” he said. “It’s not for the faint of heart.”
Describing the controversy as “a fabricated issue,” Mr. El-Gamal, who received death threats at the time, insisted that the scaled-down museum would still achieve his original objective. “We are still building an Islamic museum and sanctuary,” he said.
For his opponents, even a small center is too much. An Islamic museum “is just as much of an insult,” Pamela Geller, a blogger and one of the center’s most vocal opponents, wrote in an email. “It will be like having a museum touting the glories of the Japanese Empire at Pearl Harbor.”…
mortimer says
Victory Mosque commemorating the glorious Islamic conquest of New York and subsequent surrender of America to Dhimmitude. (sarc/off)
mortimer says
A museum of German culture next to Auschwitz. A Muslim museum next to the destroyed Buddhas of Bimyan.
Why is Mr. El-Gamal eager to celebrate the CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY perpetrated on 9/11 ?
This is SADOMASOCHISM!
Nice guy. says
That’s the first thing that came to my mind. I was born in Poland. My great grand father was murdered in that camp. And I can’t imagine a German museum build inside or beside Auschwitz. What is this world coming to.
BLC says
The only time Muslims understand cultural insensitivity is when someone is culturally insensitive towards them. Otherwise, they couldn’t care less. They’re blatantly ignorant as pigs. (Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean to insult pigs.)
Porky The Crusader says
Better 😉
Jihadi John says
Will there be a New York style hot dog stand next to it?
Mark T says
Great idea! Let them smell cooking pork all day.
Paul N Silas says
How many Tyrants and other followers of Satan have built monuments to ungodly things, only to see them tumble before the Great I Am? Hitler’s Reich was going to last 1,000 years. Ha-ha!
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, laughs at these “little people”.
efoc says
No one tells it like Pat Condell – recorded many years ago but still relevant as ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjS0Novt3X4
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Yep! I’ve admired Pat Condell for several years.
I’m sure we can count on our beloved New Yorkers to not be inhibited in offering pork, and alcohol tributes to that ”Mosque” by any other name. Here is my five-word speech, ”It isn’t -phobia, it’s rejection”.
ElderlyZionist says
He just insists on putting a mosque there, dunnee? “We’ll have luxuiry apartments and shopping….and a mosque.” “We’ll have a movie theater and a bowling alley and a roller coaster…and a mosque.”
I think the City should take the site by eminent domain, and put a ribs joint there. I’ll bet it would compete well against all the kebab shops. NYC needs more good pork barbecue.
Robert Crawford says
Muslims “sanctified” that ground with the blood of so many innocent people, they *have* to be able to bow to Satan there.
Arthur says
Who is buying the super expensive penthouse apartments? Perhaps El-Gamal is holding space for wealthy Arab elites? They will no doubt claim to need the mosque, as they not only worship on the ashes of the WTC, but also took it for their own residence. This is what a conqueror does to the conquered, is it not?
Georg says
“This is what a conqueror does to the conquered, is it not?”
It was originally going to be called “Cordoba House”, if that gives any hint of their intentions and framing.
Eur says
Now that you have mentioned Cordoba … Muslims demand that the Cathedral of Cordoba (before the Islamic conquest was a Catholic church, then a mosque and after the reconquest … cathedral) is once again a mosque.
Georg says
Tell them to go pound sand.
Richard Paulsen says
Deport anyone intending to spread islam and whatever is islamic.
Bill W. says
What do the tenants do if there is a mosque in there building? Do they take off there shoes in the lobby, can they have takeout food brought to there apartment thru the lobby during Radunit fast? Pay high rent and have people blasting high prayers 5 times a day thru speakers for all in here. Good luck renting it out !
Richard Paulsen says
Lots will accept, I am afraid. Islam is gaining ground, no doubt. Little by little. According to a plan.Very united and decisively.
West is too divided to understand the consequences. Must change, unite and stop islamization.
philip.h.swinehater says
How many warnings do the people need
Blangwort says
If I had the money, I’d rent the place next to the mosque rooms and order Bar-B-Que pulled pork sandwiches delivered every single Friday, just before prayers.
Aardvark says
If I had the money I would buy a large airliner, fit it with drone controls, make sure it is fully fueled… and you know the rest!
Eur says
They murder us and urinate on our corpses.
Ian H says
That is an extremely offensive suggestion. It will surely be a monument to the terrorists and murderers, a monument to their ‘martyrdom’. And of course that is precisely why they are so determined to build it. This is an absolutely disgusting suggestion and it makes me furious. Muslims should be allowed to build a triumphant monument on this ground to celebrate this murder done in the name of their religion.
northern lights says
Raze mosks, they are nothing but Jihad Centers.
Bill W. says
We should tell them they can build a mosque at ground zero when we can build a churches and other houses of worship in Mecca and Medina. When we can repair and build churches and other houses of worship in Iran, then we will consider it. You do not have to beleave in God to see how wrong a mosque at ground zero is, you only have to beleave in what is right and just for us as Americans. We can not as Americans let them undermine our love and trust as all people are created equal, islamics if they follow Sharia law it undermine this. If you follow the Korea, Sira and Hadith put everyone not Islamic in a subhuman class. You can not follow the Nazi law and not be a racist , if you follower the laws in the Korea, Sia and the Hadith you are a racist. Why in all corners of the world are the Islamics fighting all other faiths for 1400 years?
US infidel says
Raise mosques and drink camel piss ,let everybody else see how disgusting they are.
Bill says
Here we go again.
Could be OK says
An Islamic Museum at Ground Zero which explains why Islam is the most evil ideology in the world and Muhammad was a psychopathic, raping, pedophile, could be quite informative.
Anything that seeks to exonerate or excuse Islam must be banned immediately.
mgoldberg says
It is an affront to human decency to put such a place within the area of the attack upon the WTC, and the US. For anyone to bow to this is an obliquy to their source and sight, or rather, sightlessness.
We are friends indeed with the japanese, yet even today, it would be horrific to place a japanese shrine, or museaum at Pearl Harbor, or any number of sites of our horrendous battles when we were enemies. It is an assault upon the dead.
That needs to be emphasized to this Jihadist religion that wails that Jihadists are not Islam and the dead should be honored in NYC and never disgraced by such a columny as El Gamal and all the appeasers demand. It should be thrown right back in their faces that this defacement of the dead demeans them, and the living and is a lie built upon lies, and is an affront based upon more lies.
Shana says
Everywhere in America Conferderate monuments being taken down because they are offensive and the left cheers. Putting a museum and mosque (because that’s what this “sanctuary” will be) dedicated to Islam….the left cheers. Because it’s great when conservatives and Christians are offended.
RonaldB says
The comments so far have been excellent, and I have nothing to add to their substance.
I would like to focus, however, on the concept of private property and individual rights so beloved by libertarians and conservatives.
The cultural Marxists defend the existence of the mosque by stating “I may not agree with it [joke], but it’s private property and that’s their right. ”
It’s a powerful and attractive argument. It has the same deceptive nature as the argument “We ought to allow a free migration of labor in a free market; those who can’t contribute will starve and those who can will benefit the economy and lower prices.”
But, it’s increasingly apparent we live in the context of values, traditions and the informal constraints of social networks, as well as formal laws and the Constitution. Allowing the perpetrators of a gigantic, organized physical attack the ability to erect a monument to the attackers is simply a suicide pact, which we are NOT obligated to do by the founding fathers and the Constitution. It opens a whole can of worms to mess with bedrock principles such as property rights, but I believe the Constitution requires a due process, but not a suicide charge.
I would like to see a legal basis developed for asserting a clear impetus for societal survival, but still maintaining reasonable Constitutional guarantees in line with what the original creators would find consistent with the Constitutional republic they bequeathed to us.
Arthur says
You raise a good point. I think it takes us back to an earlier step: how did El-Gamal come to own this? Who owned the WTC before it fell? What was the condition of the sale?
You might ask the same questions if the town pizza restaurant, owned by Adam, suddenly burned to the ground and was bought by Bob on the cheap, so Bob could expand his line of burrito restaurants. And then afterwards, we all come to find out the Bob’s brother Carl was the arsonist.
Georg says
To Arthur’s point, the subject of foreign funding for these subversive governmental institutions existing under the shingle of “mosque” or “cultural center” or whatever euphemism/cloak, such as equating it with “the Y”, couldn’t be of more importance. The American people and legislature spoke with virtual unanimity in ascribing culpability to the Saudi government for terrorism and the events of 9/11 with the JASTA proceedings.
If our laws cannot be used to ban funding from them as terrorists/sponsors of terror, our laws are inadequate. If it weren’t for our addiction to Saudi petroleum, perhaps this would have already happened, so perhaps the laws are not the problem.
In the end, we need:
1) Adequate legal means to defend ourselves from Islamic subversion
2) To lose dependence on them
RonaldB says
Just a point in response to your observation on energy independence.
The fact is, for strategic purposes, we are already energy-independent. With new technologies such as fracking, oil shale recovery, and pollution-light coal energy extraction from coal, North America produces more energy than Saudi Arabia.
We are addicted not to Saudi oil, but to Saudi dollars. This state of affairs comes when a government spends more than its income, and finds it desirable to borrow. The Saudis hold hundreds of billions of dollars in US government bonds, which gives them a huge leverage over our economy…not to say, oceans of money to bribe politicians, educators, and entertainers (news).
Each government-subsidized, renewable energy boondoggle, such as the Solyndra scam under Obama, makes matters worse, rather than better. It increases our debt to countries like Saudi Arabia.
Georg says
Been thinking about such issues for years now. Basically, what makes life so special in the West — our freedoms — are used against us. It gets to the point where we must consider either limiting our freedoms in order to protect ourselves, or limiting those who would use our freedoms against us. I’m for the latter.
With Islam and Islamization we have something on our hands the founders may not have envisioned and about which our laws are not ample to ensure the long-term continuity of our safety and way of life.
A big part of the problem is the categorization of Islam as a religion. It is more truly a competing form of governance and until it is thought of and treated legally as such, we are hampered in our ability to address its potential threats in their entirety. Islam must be addressed as the man made system of governance it is and not the divinely inspired religion it is assumed to be.
Bill W. says
Just apply RICO laws were his money comes from cut off the Islamics in the middle east, we will have to pay more to be energy self reliant. We had 50 years of cold war with Russia over world policy differences, these idiots (Islamics)want to kill us because of who we are. I am tied of all the B.S. the world elite can s**k my Co*k it is time lock them (Islamtics) out of the world of trade. It is every ones interest the West, China, Russia all are spending untold amounts of money time and people,s lives, because these people are savages .It is like a tribe of head hunters keeping the world at bay.If the Nazis wanted open a Temple of Nazi worship who would let them build in lower Manhattan, London , Moscow, Paris, Berlin, in any other first world city?
jewdog says
Does the HOA fee include jihad insurance? Full disclosure, please.
abad says
Islamic museum?
Kind of an oxymoron don’t you think?
Islam strictly prohibits the depiction of any living being doesn’t matter if it is a painting, sculpture, even a pencil sketch of Mohammad.
Islam does not belong anywhere in the United States of America.
Bill says
Will the mosque allow him to keep the building off the tax rolls?
Gen Jones says
The article of course doesn’t point out the facts of the case. It’s considered Ground Zero not due to proximity but because one of the landing wheels of the plane crashed through the roof of the building and ended up in the basement. It’s a crime scene.
Every one of the developers of Park51 was a scofflaw or a deadbeat. Sharif El-Gamal owed tens of thousand to Con Ed, Rauf took tax money from the city in NJ where he had run down apartment buildings ostensibly to do repairs and apparently never completed them. So he’s, if not an actual slum lord, a cheat who cares nothing for his tenants while bragging about his Brioni suits in interviews. His wife (#4?) Daisy Khan claimed her one bedroom UWS apartment as religiously tax exempt despite the regulation that in order to do so the location must be able to hold a gathering of 500 people. She also counsels potential Muslim brides – in the US! – that the husband is allowed up to four. The third partner in the venture also had some shady aspect like tax evasion. A completely unsavory bunch yet lauded by the NYT and rest of the media.
Gen Jones says
Corrections to that post – El-Gamel owed over a million dollars to Con Ed because they owned/own part of the Park Place building. The other figure of tens of thousands, actually $39,000, was back rent for his real estate offices. So who paid these charges or did they settle? The media isn’t asking.
It’s funny that El-Gamel likes to compare his various attempts at a Muslim cultural center to the 92nd Street Y, a very successful Hebrew cultural center. Them Joos! Lol.
Bill W. says
Also human bones were found on the roof of that building years later ,when they the Islamics let a Jewish Temple be built near Mecca then we the West can think about it.
Keys says
Nothing Islamic should be built for 24,874 miles + 10 miles in any direction of “ground zero” out of respect for humanity.
Georg says
I see what you did there.
pnr says
Beloved (dharmic) Bharat will never forget ‘western’ collusion with jihadist miscreants. Let us hope ‘india’ develops and accepts genuine refugees from western lands who are fleeing jihadist demoniacs. Zero tolerance for those who provide comfort to terrorists.
Donald R Laster Jr says
No Mosque or Islamic anything should be allowed to be built near the WTC areas. ALL mosques are built to celebrate Islamic terrorism and attacks on the non-Islamic.
abad says
After 9-11, NO more mosques should have been built on OUR turf and existing mosques should have been closed for good.
Muslims simply do not belong in the United States. They can go practice Islam in Saudi Arabia.
philip.h.swinehater says
You Americans have clearly forgotten 9 11 and the slaughter of your people. 3,000 murdered and you haven`t risen up to fight back.
Bill W. says
Only the world elite and the libtard media ,the man in the street the working class and middle class people have had enough. Europe is done the battle is for North America is next.
Wellington says
Real estate taqiyya.
Eur says
And of course they will want to call the prayer five times a day, insulting the memory of those who have died again and again.
Pal says
Terror experts:
“IS has managed to “radicalise” (ops..) up to HALF A MILLION children” !!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/804189/TERROR-TOTS-Horror-experts-HALF-A-MILLION-ISIS-kids-Caliphate-cubs
Sarah says
I saw that too. Meanwhile the media has blatantly lied to us, along with so many politician’s, claiming how Isis are nearly extinguished, nearly wiped out, nearly completely defeated.
I do not see how this so-called ‘Jayvee Team’ are nearly wiped out, when they’ve managed to radicalize half a million kids, with 90% of those little monster’s no doubt going to wind up living in the West one day soon.
The Iraqi army are about as effective as an ice cube maker is, to an Eskimo. They’ve proven that, repeatedly. I’m more worried about that bunch and their utterly useless government turning tail (yet again) or even just signing up with Isis.Its not like Isis are preaching anything other than EXACTLY what Mohammed and Allah demands from every Muslim.
We need to wake up and cut it off at the source. Absolutely no more migrants who are Muslim or who are from Islamic nations. Those who are Muslim in our nations need to be forcibly expelled back to any Islamic nation of their choosing. We need to tear down every mosque, school or building that is owned by and/or utilized by any group that has any alignment with Islam, including the NGO’s and charities and think tanks etc.We need to ban utterly anything and everyone that has even the slightest involvement with Islam from the civilized world.
Once we have the Muslims back in Muslim territory, we need to stop allowing any of them from visiting or communicating with the world. No more trade or business with the Islamic world. No more foreign aid, no more sharing of educational, medicinal, scientific or engineering inventions, innovations or advancements.
Leave them alone. No more interference. No more humanitarian or charitable missions. No more troops. Let the live with Islam. Leave them alone to do so. And deny any and all access to the civilized world.
Frankly, I think the Islamic world will devolve into a nightmare within months of this happening. Leave them alone to sort themselves out. No asylum seekers. No migrants. Nothing. If they want Islam- they can have Islam. And either fix their own mess from within. Or abandon it altogether. Either way – it will no longer be a problem for the rest of the human race.
We will never see peace, we will never see positive change while we interact with that world and with Muslims. we will never be safe while we allow them to stream into our nation’s. I don’t want to kill anyone or see anyone killed. I don’t want them jailed or harmed. I just want them and absolutely everything to do with them expelled full stop, without any exceptions from the rest of the world.
dumbledoresarmy says
Agreed.
Wall off the dar al Islam and leave them to stew in it; and don’t allow them to put so much as a toe outside of the wall.
Nigel GFF says
…”But by 2011, Mr. El-Gamal bowed to public pressure, little of it local, and abandoned the idea for the cultural center.”…
‘…little of it local,…’ Oh, really. The NYT is prone to make these unchallenged, bald statements.
Is there an equivalent word for reciprocity in Arabic? I’d be tempted to make the offer, build your ‘center’, or some other such, when minority faiths in Muslim majority countries can build theirs, unimpeded.
Nigel GFF says
Heck, who’s kidding who? Reciprocity my a.., not a fruitful line of enquiry. They’ll be playing snowballs in hell on that day.
Isabellathecrusader says
So, how do you want to handle this Pamela?
Time to roll up a newspaper and bonk him on the nose again. Why do I feel like this guy is such a joke? Will Fredrick, Ryan and Luis all be vying to sell his luxury apartments? I think not. El-Gamal probably doesn’t even have any intention of building apartments there. It’s just a smoke screen to get his damned mosque in that Burlington Coat Factory building. Hmmmm….what can we do to ruin his plans?
dumbledoresarmy says
Yep, go for it, Islamosavvy Americans and especially New Yorkers.
Maybe ACT for America (New York branches) might have some ideas.
And… give the President a hint. He’s a New Yorker. Tell him that the very last thing you want in New York is a Muslim mosque (camouflaged by a real estate ‘development’) anywhere within cooee of the site of the 9/11 Muslim jihad assault upon America.
Sarah says
I find it astonishing that they are actually building a mosque and a museum on the ruins of those towers, given how many people died that day – and how many people have died since from health complications due to the toxic dust cloud that blanketed the entire area.
Those people died, in horrific pain, fear and mind numbing misery because of Islam. And some absolute animal in America signed off on building a mosque and an Islamic themed museum on the grave of those innocent lives.
I will never, ever forget, to my dying day, seeing the footage of those poor, poor people who jumped out of pure desperation. Of knowing that for every person who jumped, there were hundreds more behind them, screaming in terror to their death’s, trapped in those buildings.
I will quote Newt Gingrich on this matter:
““Nazis don’t have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington,” former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich said. “We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There’s no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center.” ”
I dare anyone to stand up and state their name, show their miserable face and clearly explain why Muslim’s should get a pass on this, when rightfully, as he pointed out, no-one else would.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Islam likes to appropriate other cultures and cultural icons and claim them as Islamic. In Australia it has been Vegemite, a once iconic Aussie spread for the brekky toast, but also iconic towns, for example Bendigo. Halal certification in the case of Vegemite. A mosque in Bendigo financed by Saudi Arabia and the Bendigo Bank.
Islam wants to claim Ground Zero for similar cultural appropriation reasons. If it can appropriate the cultural hurt and the property that goes with it then it accomplishes two things: Supreme insult to the victims. Ownership of the violated space and emotions of all who suffered.
The underlying message is always the same: We spoiled it, we appropriated it, it’s Islamic now, so get out!
james.mich says
Why are people in the US such spineless, gutless, mindless cowards as to allow this betrayal of their dead ? How can they possibly be related to the men who fought the Nazis and the Japs ? There is no resemblance whatever. One might have imagined that the results of Europe’s appeasing Hitler would have been a dreadful warning to the US of the folly of appeasing violent and barbaric men. A lot of the world paid dearly for the folly of the men who appeased Hitler – one would think the US, having been spared the worst results of that policy, would learn from the folly of others. Apparently not.
The US has not even learned from Muslim crimes committed, and continuing, in Europe. How is such blindness possible ? This is a huge symbolic victory for Islam – it proves that the US is managed by gutless fools.
BestefarJohn says
May the God of Abraham strike their building with a bolt of fire!