My latest at PJ Media:
Before he folded his presidential campaign and turned to trolling President Trump on Twitter, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared at AIPAC Monday: “I was never prouder than when I stood in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty and argued that Muslims had every right to build a Mosque anywhere in our city, including near the World Trade Center.”
He may have been proud, but he was not successful. The infamous Ground Zero Mosque was Bloomberg’s pet project and was hailed by all the leftist intelligentsia, including Barack Obama, but the planned 16-story structure was not built during Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor, and may never be built at all. The failure of the project, however, did not stop the establishment media from declaring victory. The New York Post told us in December 2012 that “the Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero…opened with great fanfare a year ago.”
You missed that? That’s because it didn’t actually happen. The media was hyping a couple of minor events at a tiny, unmarked mosque in a building that had been extensively damaged in the 9/11 attacks so as to save face after Pamela Geller’s rallies — which I helped out on — marshaled public opinion to beat the mega-mosque project. The response to those rallies far exceeded our expectations because Americans, aside from Bloomberg, largely recognize the insult to the memory of the victims of 9/11 that this mosque represented. Seventy percent of the American people opposed the Ground Zero Mosque.
And with good reason. Bloomberg no doubt had and still has no idea of the fact, but as The History of Jihad shows, the placement of mosques throughout Islamic history has been an expression of conquest and superiority over non-Muslims. Muslims built the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock on the site of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in order to proclaim Islam’s superiority to Judaism. The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus was built over the Church of St. John the Baptist and the Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople was converted into a mosque, to express the superiority of Islam over Christianity. Historian Sita Ram Goel has estimated that over 2,000 mosques in India were built on the sites of Hindu temples for the same reason.
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mortimer says
Michael Bloomberg is no sage … he is a pragmatic businessman and financier without a practical knowledge of Islam. Bloomberg’s ignorance of Islamic supremacism and arrogance are both breath-taking.
Maimonides, a renowned philosopher and physician, and one of the greatest of Jewish sages, experienced the Almohad persecutions, and had to flee Cordoba with his entire family in 1148. Maimonides had no good words for Islam:
“… on account of our sins God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael [that is, Muslims], who PERSECUTED US SEVERELY, and who devise ways to HARM us and to DEBASE us…. No nation has ever done more harm to Israel. None has matched it in DEBASING and HUMILIATING us. None has been able to REDUCE us as they have…. We have borne their imposed degradation, their lies, their absurdities, which are BEYOND HUMAN POWER TO BEAR…. We have done as our sages of blessed memory have instructed us, bearing the lies and absurdities of Ishmael…. In spite of all this, we are not spared from the ferocity of their wickedness and their outbursts at any time. On the contrary, the more we suffer and choose to conciliate them, the more they choose to act belligerently toward us…”
Naildriver says
So, here in the USA, many Jews as Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders, would rather allow this menace upon our shores unfettered and empowered even knowing such horrors as above to their people … with Mosque building rights — since what could be worse than the US congress get the idea it could lawfully hinder Islam and then realize it has the votes to also hinder Jewish practices?!! — Or conversely for the far Right: loosened restraints upon abortion and restrictions of Old Testament passages from being placed in public schools etc.
The idea of secularism should cross the blood brain barrier of all such vested religious factions to realize it is better to submit to US law rather than tolerate Islam’s running totally amock in the USA.
It is treason to assist Islam’s progress int the USA.
gravenimage says
What “Jewish practices” are threatening the United States?
And the idea that either Bloomberg or Sanders are “religious fanatics” is *very* strange.
This has more to do with their both being clueless Leftists than it does with their being Jewish –especially with Sanders, who says he is “not actively involved with organized religion”.
Naildriver says
Practices ? You tell me? Obviously the various lobbyists for Israel have some fear of how new Islamic and ultra liberal members to congress have weakened support for Israel.
I’m talking about factions in Congress! I was basically restating the above information from morty from his historical horror at the outset.
I know full well they don’t represent most Jews but they are Jews! And they have a perspective they believe is consistent with their identity or personal beliefs – and the point which you either missed or deliberately ignored, was this problem of getting consensus of Islam’s threat, owing to the other religious factions who fear for their own influence, and political power — thus, preventing Congress from decisive action to say Islam is a national threat and problem.
Your presumption that it’s entirely a liberal obstruction is wrong too, not that I love liberals, but clearly see the likes of Ted Cruz coming to the aid of Islam, over the Muslim in his Texas Republican party owing very likely to his Catholic upbringing and duty as a congressman to that Catholic constituency. Oh, and before you call me anti Catholic in addition to anti Semite G. Bush’s or Trump’s playing to the religious right of evangelicals who also fear loss of political power because they care about maintaining government involvement in religion, for example, such that God is in science textbooks. Just like a fanatic might care about his Islam!
But make no mistake, Islam is the enemy, and as a secular state that must realize this fact, the USA isn’t obliged to worry about the health of the other religions and factions when lawfully upholding the Constitution saying so.
Kilauea says
The most frustrating aspect to these types of stories is that Americans being attacked is ignored by the court system while Muslims make up false stories about being persecuted and the media goes nuts. God is watching and the day of reaping what has been sown is at hand
mortimer says
Bloomberg resists learning anything that would stop him from making a business deal with someone.
American and European businessmen like Bloomberg had no problem working with the Nazis because they refused to stop and analyze the evil ideology of the Nazis. That would have stopped them from profiting from the business relationship with one of the most evil groups in history.
Similarly, Bloomberg and businessmen like him only seek for profit and refuse to see the intrinsic evil of Islamic supremacism.
When Bloomberg deals with Islam (the enemy of free societies and Israel), he is wilfully blind to the fact that the goal of Islamic societies is to enslave us.
Rarely says
Examples of Bloomberg’s dealings with Nazis. Not possible, of course, because of his age. How can one project that he would have done so had he been around?
Where, I wonder, has he dealt with islamists or islam for that matter? You can’t possibly mean that all dealings with muslims are inappropriate.
mortimer says
Honestly, we cannot know what an individual financier would do when presented with a golden opportunity to make 10 or 20 years’ pay at one time. But we can make educated guess.
That is what ITT, IBM, Coca Cola and Ford Motors did when making deals with the Nazis. What would stop shallow Michael Bloomberg from making deals with the enemies of America … that is how he is making money today.
I have spoken with financiers and generally they are focused on making deals and finding business opportunities. They are not interested in the doctrines of Islam and would prefer not to hear about the subject … at all. They are looking for their next business opportunity.
Bloomberg didn’t get rich studying philosophy books or scholarly books on the hadiths or Sharia law manuals.
Knowing what we do now about the Nazis and the Holocaust, we tend to think we would have behaved better with our perfect hindsight. But Churchill was practically the only one in the West who read Mein Kampf and Hitler’s speeches. Everyone else thought Hitler was going just ‘a bit overboard’, but that he generally harmless.
Jews in Europe assumed Hitler wouldn’t remain in power very long, so they assumed it best to ride it out until he was gone. They were naïve, just like BLOOMBERG.
Rarely says
1). Do you know where and how Bloomberg got his wealth? Or are you assuming. Your “educated guess” tags every “individual financier” with certain qualities that are far from reality — that they all make a deal with the devil. We simply don’t have any idea what a person might do except from how he has acted in the past and not some imaginary group and even then we are just guessing.
2). For all we know Bloomberg has a deeper knowledge and understanding of islam than anyone on this site.
3) In the early-mid 1930s many German Jews might have believed hitler wouldn’t last long but they were still doing their best to get out of Germany. Many, many left but didn’t get far enough (e.g. Anne Frank). More, if not all, of Germany’s Jews would have left IF there was someplace that would take them. It had absolutely nothing to do with naivety
No one expected hitler to overrun Europe with such ease or that the native populations would have been so cruelly treated. If so the 10-12,000,000 Ukrainians that died by his hand would have fled too — if anyplace would have taken them..
James Lincoln says
mortimer says,
“Bloomberg didn’t get rich studying philosophy books or scholarly books on the hadiths or Sharia law manuals.”
That is correct.
It is more profitable, and safer, for someone to be and islam apologist / enabler, etc., than to be an anti-jihadist.
Case in point, the Robert Spencer’s of the world, if they wanted to totally sell out, could make a lot more money – and avoid death threats – by joining the other side…
Lu says
“2). For all we know Bloomberg has a deeper knowledge and understanding of islam than anyone on this site.”
You gotta be jesting.
wpm says
If he stood in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty he would be standing in the middle of NYC harbor (maybe a good mile from ground zero he is always shooting wide for the mark just look at his presidential campaign .) Was he in his private boat having a private debate with himself in the middle of New York harbor about what is right for America??He seems to always be in the shadows or missing a point just look at his performance at the democratic debates .
wpm says
He is very proud of sticking up to bullies ,kissing up to them ,because he has his own private body guards ,gated homes,he foolishly believes they will leave him along if he appeases them.He has a lot in common with EU leadership .
mortimer says
Good point, wpm. The wealthy don’t think of how Muslim gangs act in the inner cities and slums making life hell for needy, vulnerable people. All that is invisible from the 50th floor.
Bloomberg is a globalist capitalist/financier, not a man of the people like Trump who has the same attitude and manner of speaking as the people living at the bottom in spite of Trump’s wealth.
I’m not aware of any ideological thinking from Bloomberg. He’s interested in making the world safe for globalist capitalism and providing cheap labor for the bosses.
James Lincoln says
Rightly true, wpm.
Eventually, however, a country runs out of “other people’s neighborhoods”…
jca reid says
IDIOT!!
Goofy says
We have no idea what Bloomberg has done which he could possibly be proud of. So he may be right which puts his whole life in perspective. Thank God he is no longer a contender for President of the USA.
Walter Sieruk says
When Michael Bloomberg declared that he was “never prouder” then when he supported the ground Zero mosque is was actually, in essence, proud of a victory memorable of a violet and murderous Islamic insurrection which occurred on September 11, 2001.
Jihadist subversion of the US constitutional government ,by hook or by crook,may take the form of politician infiltration and manipulation ,by hook, as seen in the stealth jihad by politicians as Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib or by crook, as seen in the violence and killing by the jihadist/Muslims of al Qaeda on 9/11 who committed that sin unto God , hideous affront against humankind and America on that specific day of September 11, 2001.
So Bloomberg is then is a “proud supporter of a “victory monument” to the mass murder of Muslim terrorism with all its malicious evil.
Furthermore , concerning the very subject of the construction of the ground zero mosque ,this topic may be explained by a lecture held ten years ago yet still relevant for today.
Back in the year of 2010 and during the month of August I attended a lecture at a church, about the subject of Islam. One of the speakers was a former Muslim, a Hezbollah member and an Iranian citizen. Now he’s a Christian and an American citizen.
After the lecture and during the question and answer part, he was asked about the Ground Zero Mosque which is that construction of that specific mosque at that specific place.
The speaker answered that the G.Z.M. would have a symbolic meaning with a message in the Islamic world, in the G.Z.M. will be in the Muslim world as a “victory monument” of Islam and Islam’s jihad over the West.
In other words the message to all jihad-minded Muslims is “Look what we have done for the cause of Islam, we have killed and have been victorious.”
gravenimage says
+1
Naildriver says
I never hear these ‘genius’s’ sayings that; ‘we are, under the Constitution, a SECULAR country and should abide by that reality; and, that upon that reality we should defend the Constitution from ANY enemy.
Islam is an enemy; and has no authority to the USA’s prerogative to call it an enemy because it calls itself a religion. Our constitutionl guarantee to its population, that no hindrance to religion will be made, does not mean we need ignore an enemy who claims its religion — would the government give religious status to practicing Aztecs, or devotees to Charles Manson — I don’t think so.
So, why does this billionaire, Bloomberg claim he’s proud to have defended a Muslims right to insult the families of those their religion, Islam, by way of its directives, their most fervent devotees murdered?
It boils down to his presumption of how voter citizens regard their relation to the government. Just as Ted Cruz defended a Muslim’s infestation of his party’s apparatus in Texas, Bloomberg likely thinks we actually have an obligation to these various religious factions under the Constitution because he sees a threat to his own.
It’s not just corruption, bribes or political donations from Muslims, or treason — not that these reasons don’t seriously figure into the overall problem with defining Islam an enemy acrtor, but, his fear that were ‘SECULARISM’ if made the driving force to define iIslam as such, for restraint and opposition to Jihadist Islam, Judiasm would similarly suffer incursions from other factions, a pecking party not seen since Hitler. Ted perhaps had similar concerns for Catholicism with his seemingly oxymoronic statements.
But we are a SECULAR country! Bush probably wished we were solidly Evangelical fundamentalist when he watched the predictable outcome of Iraqi’s fighting over the Sunni/Shiite divide — which still results in mass slaughters. Thing is our founders wisely installed this way of dealing with religious factions ‘SECULARISM’.
YES! Secularism is an affront to practically all established religions, and makes man’s law to be above God’s law but it is the only way to deal with Islam’s threat.
I would say if defending the spirit of the Constitution is a problem for a Catholic, I would suggest he go to one of the many Catholic countries available, and Jews have Israel — should the Protestants various factions become the targets of US laws; Evangelicals and fundamentalists who claim to be Christian, should recall Jesus’s admonition to: ‘Render unto Cesar that which is Cesar’s’, otherwise the damned fools can go to hell. US law trumps religious law! Because that is how the founders envisioned the secular nature of government — the Devine right of Kings, sharia the 10 commandments, or other notions of power in religion, are subservient to US law.
Islam with its sharia as a faction — package, and should be put before the supreme court of the USA and sued for being an enemy to the USA; and, after a sensible decision say the other branches should be obliged to defend the population from Islam’s inimical influences, practices, and agenda. The SCOTUS should rule that The other branches have a lawful obligation to uphold the idea of secularism in its decision against Islam, and tool for the POTUS and congress to set up proper defenses to this menace, Islam.
gravenimage says
Of course, the idea that Judaism presents a threat to the West is quite false. And while there are certainly clueless religious people who fail to recognize that Islam is a threat, the same is true of many Agnostics and Atheists.
Naildriver says
I said:
‘So, why does this billionaire, Bloomberg, claim he’s proud to have defended a Muslims right to insult the families of those their religion, Islam, by way of its directives, their most fervent devotees murdered?
It boils down to his presumption of how voter citizens regard their relation to the government. Just as Ted Cruz defended a Muslim’s infestation of his party’s apparatus in Texas,’
The question is just as much implied by this very thread’s topic.
But my response in no way suggested Judaism presented a threat to the West.
I find it strange you’d suggest it does.
Many posts here lose focus of the anti-jihad theme but not with my post.
It is rather biased of me however to challenge all, to regard Jesus’s admonition to ‘render unto Cesar what is Cesar’s, and suppress their fears for the greater good, and allow our Republic to do its job under the Constitution; and declare Islam an enemy that it is.
Peter35 says
Proud to support the enemy. I find it absolutely incredible how many wealthy Americans like Bloomberg are actually America–hating traitors, and why? They amassed millions or billions in America, yet can’t wait to bad-mouth the country which made their wealth possible….
Astounding.
It’s bad enough that wealthy blacks are America-haters because of the enormous chip they carry on their shoulders, “we built America, man!” (they didn’t) but Bloomberg is old and white–and should know better.
DazzleMe says
Well said Peter35!!
ntesdorf says
Bloomberg was ‘never more stupid than when he supported the Ground Zero Mosque. As an antidote he should now try to read the Qur’an. Haddith and Sunna of Mohammed.
gravenimage says
Bloomberg Was ‘Never Prouder’ Than When He Supported the Ground Zero Mosque
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What a vicious moron. I’m glad he’s out of the presidential race–but Sanders is about as bad, and Biden little better.
Mike says
Bloomberg, the man who gets in the buffet with his naked fingers , licks them and put them back in the buffet ….in a time of coronavirus spread . What a man !
DazzleMe says
What a stupid man, LOL
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Muhammadans sided with the Nazis.
What more does anyone need to know.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/
James says
Christianity absorbs the customs of non-Christian religions, such as the Christmas tree or yule log, Easter eggs and virgin birth, signs in nature, and lots of other things. So of course the Muslims do this too, but they are going a bit far with this mosque. If they were really advanced, they would have a big movement to apologize and make good the sins of the past, rather than transforming these attacks into a sign of pride. Typically, their mosques in Western countries are intended to stand out against the landscape. And at the same time they may not allow churches or synagogues in their own countries. Bloomberg is hoping to capitalize on pandering to Islamist attitudes.
OLD GUY says
Just another liberal IDIOT.
OLD GUY says
Just another IDIOT.
DazzleMe says
I know it’s a simple answer but everything in Bloomberg’s life is about power and money. He has NOT a clue about religion, he has no compassion or thought for what’s right or wrong.
OLD GUY says
The American people know a looser when they see or hear one and Bloomberg filled that bill. I respect his ability to make money in our free market system but his political ideas are not inline with freedom and the American way. The same is true of islam. Islamic ideology and religion are not compatible with christian and freedom loving people. Islam needs to be defeated world wide and purged from the face of the earth.