Audacity: Ground Zero Mosque Developers Apply for $5M in U.S. Taxpayer Money
Andrew Cuomo, the Democrat candidate and eventual winner of the governor’s race, tried to hedge the issue with a “no contest” approach, saying he neither supported the Ground Zero mosque nor opposed it. Using the purely legal argument employed by both Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama, Cuomo pointed to the “religious freedom” rights of all Americans. As attorney general of New York, prior to winning the gubernatorial contest this year, Cuomo was beseeched by New Yorkers to investigate the proposed funding of the mosque. And despite polling that showed 70% of New York’s citizens supported such an investigation to root out terror-network ties, Cuomo refused, saying such a probe of a religious project could set a “terrible, dangerous precedent.”
Well, now that issue will apparently be moot. If our own federal government bestows $5 million confiscated from the citizenry by taxation to the Ground Zero mosque developers, no investigation will be necessary. The seed money for the monument to the killers over the graves of their victims will be completely transparent. Bravo, big government.
I have to say this, and, to be truthful, probably is NOT what you would call “politically correct” to say such a thing. But, if this grant is approved and given to this group to build this mosque, THIS COUNTRY IS DONE FOR!!! You can count on that, to be sure!!!
What we as American citizens think, want matters little to the people in power. Wait ’til they try to regulate the internet… the mosque money will be a whisper in the wind..
Spot on!!!!
This must have been the result of the ‘muslim workshop’ earlier this year initiated by Obama’s tean, teaching muslims how to het the ‘infidels’ money to spit on their graves, after killing them.
Not only done for, but it will also be a crystal clear message on who this government REALLY supports. Then those Americans who have not woken up yet, had better do so.
I have often wondered why Conservatives do not take a page out of the radical left and Muslim playbook.
Consider:leftist thugs, via their union jackboots, continually talk about busting heads.In fact, the POTUS has opined over how to get the job done-if they bring a knife, we bring a gun, or something to that effect.You get the picture….
In tandem, Muslims world over (as did Rauf & Co) THREATEN, THREATEN & THREATEN to THREATEN ad infinitum.
However, Conservatives tend to use logic, facts and the power of persuasion.How’s that working out for us?
Now, I am no longer within spitting distance of Ground Zero-but was for so many years, including when the Islamic jihadists attacked-but perhaps a change in tactics is in order.
Here is a novel idea-all those who oppose the erection of a Muslim Brotherhood jihadist mosque, believing it would be spitting on the graves of those who died,may need to become as threatening as the leftists and the Islamists.Fear thee, but not me?
IF the Obama regime, and Cuomo’s administration, knew that the opposition would be a threatening force to be reckoned with, I submit that they will NOT submit!!
Conservatives do not take pages out of the liberal playbook because we are constantly told that if we are peaceful and give respect to those who disagree with us that truth will win out over evil. So we continue to move back the line in the sand every time liberals spit on us,denigrate us or beat one of us up. What a great plan.
Mayor Richpiggie, dhimmi that he is, will surely approve.
We are continually subjected to tyranny of the “minority” in this country. This is due to “white man’s guilt” as espoused by the late Malcom X. Unfortunately the majority has bought into it. Being PC has become more important than being morally right. Moral questions are totally overlooked as those who want to impose their tyranny point to our constitution. Our constitution wasn’t framed with today’s threats. It wasn’t formed to give preferential treatment to those who want to destroy it. It was simply formed to give equality to all and nothing else.
Should the Obama administration give its approval, and it will, there will be a backlash in this country that will make the 2010 elections seem like a minor hiccup. We understand too well that it isn’t water thats being spilled on us when somebody is really pissing on us.
We understand too well that it isn’t water thats being spilled on us when somebody is really pissing on us.
One of the former Warsaw Pact countries – Czechoslovakia or maybe Hungary – has a saying that was widely used during the Soviet occupation of their country: “Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.”
Andy; hiding behind the “minority” is the federal bureaucracy. They can’t stop themselves from eternal expansion of their mission/intrusion. No matter if it violates principles of common sense, common decency or fiscal sanity.
Collectivist planning is replacing the rule of law. Under collectivist planning, the planning authority sets up distinctions of merit between the needs of different people. In the end, the views of some bureaucrat will decide whose interests are more important and these views will become the law of the land. In this way, the coercive apparatus of government imposes a new distinction of rank upon the people. (See “The Road to Serfdom” chapter six.)
Remember that Pennsylvania woman who took the microphone to tell Arlen Spector during the Townhalls of summer ’09 that a sleeping giant had been awakened in America?
She was wrong. It’s a raging volcano.
Read this to understand where we’re headed, Obama’s Jeffersonian Muslim Revisionist Lie:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40141
No.
Like in NO.
Not a penny for the jihadists.
Why didn’t those Saudi millions come through? It sounds a lot like the Muslim response after the tsunami in Indonesia when they promised a lot of relief money and didn’t deliver. Leave it to the Dhimmi to ante up.
yeah!! where are the Saudi family millions? heck, they make millions “dailY’
NOT ONE PENNY TO THIS OR ANY MOSQUE
Since it’s the wrong thing to do but this is the new America, they’ll get the money sure as hell. Multiculturalism has wrecked America. Supposedly the idea is that white folks, who are endemic and parochial racists, need a leavening of color from people who are no different from white people but yet must be different to achieve this leavening in true Orwellian and politically correct doublethink. Diversity is the “D” word to me. Having spent 6 years of my life all over the Third World, America is mad to let these people come and come and come.
According to afirmative action guidelines Arabs are Caucasian. It’s not that they aren’t white but they hate Christians and Jews (also Hindus, Budhists, Confusionists, animists, athiests etc.).
Every Arab/Moslem I know does not consider him/herself as white. Many discussions that I had with a former Lebanese colleague confirmed that. They generally do not associate with whites, excepting the males who chase after white women. They view blacks as inferior for sure (check out the internet for racist comments that Mohammed made about blacks) but they view whites (Jews/Chrisitans) as the enemy.
You think they’re in financial straits now, wait until construction delays and overruns and ‘mysterious’ flaws start cropping up.
Do they really think the New Yawk hardhats who actually build the thing are going to be doing their best work?
Having worked in the NYC construction biz for a few years, I wish I could say the union guys will take a stand and refuse to build the mosque, but their bosses are a greedy bunch. They’ll agree to work anywhere on anything as long as the check clears.
Ah, yes. The hallmark of rampant, unchecked leftism. Stealth funding.
We have stealth legislation, and we passed this nation’s healthcare with hit.
It’s not read, it’s done in reconciliation, we have to pass it to find out what’s in it, the union thugs get a pass on it, the congresscritters get a pass on it, 118 power busters get a pass on it…but, you…dear countryman, you have it shoved down your throat.
Global hoaxing? Stealth science, promoting stealth spending of your money. That’s merely the energy industry.
Auto industry? Why stealth creditor payoffs to the unions.
Voting registration? Stealth funding to ACORN and other subversive groups to pad the rolls with people who aren’t even eligible.
Who is actually being vetted these days? Not Muslims looking to build a Victory Tower on the ashes of our innocents. Not subversives who are shredding our voting rolls and ballots. Not border crashers who are making it nearly impossible to stave off drug cartels and gang warfare.
Nope, it’s eight year old boys being investigated by the government’s own NAMBLA-style pokers, probers and pre-pubescent peepers.
It’s Google snooping and groping at your personal information.
These are not “very dangerous precedents”, invasions of your liberties, attacks on your freedoms. This is just a little redistributive justice being applied, up close….and personal.
Some folks are being treated like the enemy here…and some folks are being given a pass. Can you feel which team you’re on these days?
EVERY time, you get pushed around a little more…and EVERY time …they get a little further down the field on you. Face up to who this government thinks is the real enemy. You.
Superb.
I bet the Dutch government will come up with the money.
“The only requirement imposed by federal bureaucrats is that the structure, when complete, have some space allocated for non-religious purposes.”
Well, alright then, Delia, it’s time to get our “All Things Pork” restaurant application ready to go. We will be honored to share space with the “victory mosque” and have arranged for another tenant in the non-religious space, a dog walking, boarding and grooming service. I hope we can count on a few of the PJM regulars to stop by and try our BLTs and pulled pork sandwiches. Don’t miss our “Slurpee and Stoly” happy hour, every day from 5-7 p.m. I feel certain our proposal will enjoy wide support from the multi-culti left, right?
Well, as much as I’m against any citizen funding, regardless of the source and amount, any assistance funds should be clearly earmarked and labeled as PORK!
Well said.
Oma Mao’s neck didn’t get stretched far enough in the last election. … just let him take some more rope.
Maybe we should e-mail LMDC and make inquiries about how much are we; The National Group of Bloggers, entitled to IF we also don’t pay our taxes? Let alone any back taxes?
Perhaps they will advise us how profitable that can be to the citizen.
Not one stinking dime of taxpayer money should go towards this project.
What an outrage.
No one should be surprised if our Muslim fedral government approves the money!!! It’s has a very high probability of happening given the benefactors of the mosque are imams Blumberg and big O!! Sucks big time – we earn the money and it is given to coreligionists of killers to build a monument to killers!!1 Our government has no shame. Start a campaign against it.
Oh, and about the Greek Orthodox church that was already there and got destroyed…it’s not going to be rebuilt.
For a review of the outrageous islamification of America, please look at this article:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/de_facto_shariah_law_in_americ.html
Oh noes! Here it comes…
ACLU to the separation of church and state screed.
ACLU to the separation of church and state screed.
Here it comes.
Soon.
Keep waiting.
Any day.
As soon as the crickets stop chirping….
I am a nice and generous guy. As willing as the left is to appear politically correct, let the Muslims set up bell wringers after Christmas and the money will pour in.
It works for the Salvation Army.
Well, why not reward the Islamic community for its sacrifices?
/snark off
Oh noes! Here it comes…
ACLU to the separation of church and state screed.
ACLU to the separation of church and state screed.
Here it comes.
Soon.
Keep waiting.
Any day.
As soon as the crickets stop chirping….
It would really be the ultimate irony if the Ground Zero Mosque is funded by American taxpayers. Given the allegation that this mosque will celebrate the huge blow struck against America by the islamists and that a large majority of Americans opposes the construction of this building, it is inconceivable to me that American tax money could be used to construct it.
It is as if the West built a large building celebrating capitalism facing Stalin’s office in Red Square and financed it with Soviet tax money. Unbelievable!
Unfortunately, given the current President, “inconceivable” and “unbelievable” to you and me probably means “inevitable” to him.
Check all Mosques for weapons, C-4, and hate speech.
Is Saudi Arabia not giving money for the mosque because they know the rabidly pro-Islam U.S. government will give the money?
Experts say that over 80 percent of the mosques in the United States have been radicalized by Saudi money and influence. The Saudi strategy is global. Saudis invested $70-80 billion in the worldwide endeavor over three decades.
In U.S. prisons, many prisoners have been converted to Islam and radicalized.
Muslims openly declare their goal is global Islamic conquest and subjugation of all nations and peoples under extremely cruel Islamic sharia law where women are treated as inferior and defenseless non-Muslims have no human rights. In some countries conquered in the past by Islam, non-Muslims suffer severe persecution and live in daily fear.
I can’t stand it. My tax money funding this thing? If the grant is approved, when’s the march against it? Where? I’m going.
How can New York City officials allow Muslim supremacists to declare victory and conquest over Americans, including our deeply grieved 9/11 family members?
American leaders claim the victory mosque is freedom of religion. The punishment for leaving Islam is death. That is NOT freedom of religion. Victory mosque leader, Imam Rauf, refuses repeatedly to say that Hamas is a terrorist organization and wants extremely cruel Islamic sharia law implemented in America. Destroying our Constitution, freedom, and human rights. That is NOT freedom of religion! It is sedition! Many millions made the ultimate sacrifice, giving their lives so that we could live in freedom!
The U.S. government showed their approval of Rauf by sending Rauf on an all expenses paid trip to Middle Eastern countries to represent America. Rauf even made a veiled threat against America that if we don’t submit to Islam and obey their demand for a victory mosque, the Muslim world will explode in anger.
There is no doubt, that terrorists around the world are lining up to attack America and be greatly honored with a victory mosque.
Those leaders you write about are not Americans, they are Globalists.
With Globalists, and the New Age, all religions are equal and serve the same purpose. Except those nasty Christians, and Jews. Most pagans know they worship a god they can not know, or worship themselves as gods.
Islam is apart of the New Age, as they can not have a personal relationship with their god too. Sin, Hubal, or Allah, are all names of the moon god Mohammad made the greatest. Again, most pagans know Sin as the son of the Sun god. Lucifer’s man on earth.
Now you know why Islam is loved by Globalists.
Does a bomb-manufacture laboratory and arms storage facility qualify as non-religious areas? Or are those considered integral and essential parts of the Muslim religion? The middle-Eastern mosques have them. Just wondering.
Unbelievable…talk about chutzpah…and the poor Greek Orthodox Church in ground zero cannot get a permit to rebuild its structure.
No, no, NO!
Let’s all pause for a moment and say a prayer of thanks for George Bush’s “Faith Based Initiative” funding program.
nice share, good article, very useful for me…thanks
Yeah, the yearly recurring seed money from Uncle Sam to the Palestinian authority is transparent too, and a lot of good that has done. I’m always amazed at how Ivy League educations make so many people stupid. I bet if the draft is ever reinstated, a Muslim boxer will even qualify for religious objector status today, showing up in drag will get you enlisted instead of exempted, and females will still be excluded from registering for Selective Service in the age of selective equality. Yeah, let’s say a prayer, ’cause we can’t control the borders, but we sure in hell can scan a probe everyone’s undies at the airport without a measurable improvement in security outcomes. Meanwhile it’s carte blanche when it comes to smuggling the bombs through cargo.
Muslim Contempt for America: Ana Akhannethak!
Like all vermin who seem to have the capacity to cause new outbreaks just when exterminators and fumigators think they’ve been eradicated, the Ground Zero Mosque vermin have reappeared and now seem intent on effecting not just insult but contempt for the survivors and families of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
The Muslim developers of the Cordoba Project, re-named Park51 after their plans to build a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero encountered massive public protests, have been eerily quiet the last few months, They were clearly in the planning stages for their next attack. They have now announced their application for a $5 million federal grant to assist them in rubbing salt into the still-bleeding wounds Islamic terrorists caused nine years, two months, twelve days ago.
Apparently revelling in terrorist irony, the $5 million public gift to the Muslims would be taken from funds set aside for rebuilding Lower Manhattan as a consequence of the devastation caused by their fellow Muslims. To further emphasize the irony, they anticipate opening their monstrosity on the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
As reported by Johm Avlon of the DailyBeast.com, “While news of the application has not previously been made public, developer Sharif El-Gamal outlined it in closed-door meetings, according to two individuals he spoke with directly.”
The Beast article, “Mosque Money Shocker” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2787
Once you let them in, there is not much you can complain about. They’re just acting Muslim – trying to create the Dar al-Islam.
Is this a big surprise to you?
Wait! I thought that Park51 was not on ground zero. We’re told again and again that the “Ground Zero Mosque” is a nasty misnomer. If these funds are for rebuilding ground zero buildings which were destroyed in the attack, then how can that be true? Are the Muslims, and their abettors like Bloomberg lying?
Bloomberg and his Muslim breaten wouldn’t lie would they? LOL
All they want is their cut of the jizya? What’s wrong with that? /s
This Obama regime is a complete joke! This is totally what we Americans deserve when a “community organizer” is placed into a position beyond his capacity to understand foreign affairs. Basically, Obama has risen beyond his incompetency to say the least.
US Gets Punked, Taliban We Were Negotiating With Was a FRAUD
Posted: 22 Nov 2010 08:31 PM PST
Apparently President Obama had “reached out” to the wrong Guy. With great fanfare President Obama has directed US diplomats to join the Afghans in negotiations with Mullah Mansour, a senior commander of the Taliban. The NY Times, is reporting that the diplomats thought they were sitting down with Mullah Mansour, but the were punked, they guy they thought was Mansour was actually an impostor. Not before (as one of the diplomats commented) ”we gave him a lot of money.”
What’s worse is that they ignored one of the most important rules of negotiation, if a deal seems as if it is too good to be true, it probably is.
But now, it turns out, Mr. Mansour was apparently not Mr. Mansour at all. In an episode that could have been lifted from a spy novel, United States and Afghan officials now say the Afghan man was an impostor, and high-level discussions conducted with the assistance of NATO appear to have achieved little.
“It’s not him,” said a Western diplomat in Kabul intimately involved in the discussions. “And we gave him a lot of money.”
American officials confirmed Monday that they had given up hope that the Afghan was Mr. Mansour, or even a member of the Taliban leadership.
Just wait a week from now they will admit that the fake terrorist was a thirteen year-old-kid from Bay Ridge Brooklyn.
The fake Taliban leader even met with President Hamid Karzai, having been flown to Kabul on a NATO aircraft and ushered into the presidential palace, officials said.
….Doubts were raised about the man claiming to be Mullah Mansour — who by some accounts is the second-ranking official in the Taliban, behind only the founder, Mullah Mohammed Omar — after the third meeting, held in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. A man who had known Mr. Mansour years ago told Afghan officials that the man at the table did not resemble him. “He said he didn’t recognize him,” said an Afghan leader, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The Western diplomat said the Afghan man was initially given a sizable sum of money to take part in the talks — and to help persuade him to return.
We have also been helping the faker out by providing him with safe passage, air transport, and securing roadways.
The discussion now is who exactly sent this fake Mansour, the Taliban as a way to tweak the “great Satan,” or maybe the Pakistani intelligence service as part of their game of appearing to help NATO efforts to go after the Taliban while actually helping the Taliban.
Whoever sent the “faker” we probably should have recognized it, because he was offering something too good to be true.
….The man claiming to be representing the Taliban laid down several surprisingly moderate conditions for a peace settlement: that the Taliban leadership be allowed to safely return to Afghanistan, that Taliban soldiers be offered jobs, and that prisoners be released. The Afghan man did not demand, as the Taliban have in the past, a withdrawal of foreign forces or a Taliban share of the government.
As we warned when Obama promised to reach out to the Taliban, we got our hand slapped away. Our American foreign policy is dangerously naive’. Its time our President understand that you cannot meet halfway, someone that does not want to meet you at all.
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:Christian” Muslim President Obama will be SO excited to give taxpayer money to fund this “Mosque” right on top of the burned up bodies from where the extremist Muslim terrorists, a word POTUS cannot say, much less bring himself and his ” Administration” to say no to, or do anything but bow to their every wish !!! Won’t be long now before the United States people he is supposed to govern and protect against such Radicals are granted their money for this unbelievable monstrosity. I am sure Eric Holder is so excited, he can’t contain himself!
This Muslim Mosque abomination near the Towers now wants my money, your money to aid them in building an edifice to terror. PC baloney is killing our society. Not one dime should go to any religious building project and surely not one which is so alien to America’s heritage, history and values. Frankly, I am sick and tired of this kow towing to Islamofascists or anything Muslim in origin. None of this has anything to do with America’s founding, its culture, its innovations for American freedom and free enterprise.
Once again the leaders of this “mask” are proving themselves parasites. If this is not a part of Ground Zero as they say ,How can they have the gaul to claim it deserves Ground Zero development funding? What a bunch of Bull shite they push. Must be another “shovel ready project”
No, Professor Ahmed, the Founders Were Not So Fond of Islam
While doing the MSM circuit this week, American University professor Akbar Ahmed told some whoppers about Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin.
September 10, 2010 – by Laura Rubenfeld
To oppose the “burn the Quran” event planned by Pastor Terry Jones, Ahmed wrote an editorial for CNN in which he stated: not only are the actions of Jones contrary to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, but they are also against the ideals of the American Founding Fathers.
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The Founding Fathers read and honored the same Quran that Jones is now seeking to burn.
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[John Adams, America’s second president] showed the utmost respect for Islam, naming the Prophet Mohammed as one of the greatest truth seekers in history.
These statements are utterly opposed by the facts.
John Adams said absolutely nothing of the kind. Correspondence from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson on July 16, 1814, reveals John Adams’ true feelings about Islam: Adams states that Mohammed is “a military fanatic” who “denies that laws were made for him; he arrogates everything to himself by force of arms.”
John Adams did indeed own a Quran — the copy he owned contained the following in the preface:
This book is a long conference of God, the angels, and Mahomet, which that false prophet very grossly invented; sometimes he introduceth God, who speaketh to him, and teacheth him his law, then an angel, among the prophets, and frequently maketh God to speak in the plural. … Thou wilt wonder that such absurdities have infected the best part of the world, and wilt avouch, that the knowledge of what is contained in this book, will render that law contemptible …
Perhaps Akbar Ahmed misspoke, and was referring to John Adams’ son, John Quincy Adams? The sixth president, not the second?
No. Here is what John Quincy Adams wrote about the Islamic prophet Mohammed:
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE. [emphasis in the original]
John Quincy Adams also described the Quran in one of his essays as follows:
The precept of the koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force.
Ahmed also claims in his editorial that “Benjamin Franklin called the Prophet Mohammed a model of compassion.” Ahmed made similar claims on The Daily Show:
I quote the Founding Fathers. … John Adams on the Prophet of Islam: He called him one of the greatest truth seekers in history. (Ben) Franklin called him a model of compassion. And Jefferson had the first Iftaar … and owned a copy of the Quran. … Those Americans who are attacking Islam simply as a terrorist religion or a religion of evil, really need to go back to their own Founding Fathers.
In a March 23, 1790, letter to the editor of the Federal Gazette, Ben Franklin wrote:
Nor can the Plundering of Infidels be in that sacred Book [the Quran] forbidden, since it is well known from it, that God has given the World, and all that it contains, to his faithful Mussulmen, who are to enjoy it of Right as fast as they conquer it.
Thomas Jefferson? Like John Adams, he did own a Quran, one translated by George Sale. Here are some of Sale’s comments on the Quran, included by Sale in his introduction:
It is certainly one of the most convincing proofs that Mohammedism was no other than human invention, that it owed its progress and establishment almost entirely to the sword.
In his editorial, Akbar Ahmed claims:
Thomas Jefferson kept the … Quran in his personal collection and it informed his decision to host the first presidential iftaar during Ramadan.
President Obama repeated this claim — that Jefferson hosted the first presidential iftaar — at the most recent White House Ramadan dinner.
Let’s review the facts.
During the Barbary Wars, in 1805, the bey (i.e., monarch) of Tunis threatened war with the United States after the U.S. had been successful in capturing some Tunisian pirate ships. The bey sent an envoy to the United States to negotiate for the return of the ships. This envoy stayed in Washington for six months, during which the month of Ramadan passed.
One of Thomas Jefferson’s many invitations extended to this envoy to meet with him at the White House was during the month of Ramadan. To accommodate the envoy’s religious obligation, Jefferson changed the time of dinner from the usual “half after three” to “precisely at sunset.”
Jefferson was being polite — not celebrating the first White House iftaar, as Akbar Ahmed suggests.
The first Ramadan iftaar was not actually held at the White House until 1996.
Indeed, in a letter dated June 26, 1822, Jefferson had this to say about Islam in a passage regarding Calvinism:
Verily I say these are the false shepherds foretold as to enter not by the door into the sheepfold, but to climb up some other way. They are mere usurpers of the Christian name, teaching a counter-religion made up of the deliria of crazy imaginations, as foreign from Christianity as is that of Mahomet.
For good measure, Akbar Ahmed also mentioned John Locke:
The Founding Fathers were also inspired by Christian thinkers like John Locke, who declared that the true Christian’s duty was to “practice charity, meekness, and good-will in general toward all mankind, even to those that are not Christians.”
Akbar Ahmed is currently Ibn Khaldoun chair and professor of Islamic studies at American University. Ibn Khaldoun was a 14th century Islamic philosopher and scholar, a man about whom Akbar Ahmed has written. Ibn Khaldoun advocated for violence against non-Muslims as a religious duty, in order to achieve the larger goal of dismantling non-Muslim civilization and imposing an Islamic caliphate.
Ibn Khaldoun makes it clear that holy war is the duty of every Muslim. From his most famous work, Muqaddimah:
In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the (Muslim) mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.
Akbar Ahmed is, as previously noted, an advisor to General Petraeus. One wonders if General Petraeuss has been influenced by the false teachings of this professor.
I have a wonderful idea, I suggest since the leaders of the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association (CMSA apparently hope for interfaith dialogue to help end growing anti-Muslim rhetoric, I suggest that that they invite the Seattle cartoonist behind “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day!”
Even though a Christian expert on Islam is not surprised that the Seattle cartoonist behind “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day!” was threatened by extremists and forced into hiding and Dr. William Wagner, author of “How Islam Plans to Change the World,” says intimidation is one of radical Islam’s most effective tools, I bet everything would be peachy.
And even though “They (radical Muslims) are constantly looking for persons who seem to go against Islam and then threaten them,” says Wagner, a long-time Southern Baptist who currently serves as president of Olivet University in San Francisco, the liberals tell us that everything is hunky dory. I am so looking forward to this break- through, aren’t you?
There are many reasons to doubt the stated intentions of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the Ground Zero mosque. After 9/11 he did not hesitate to condemn the United States as an “accessory” to the attacks but more recently refused to condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization. This is unsurprising considering he has well-established ties to U.S. branches of the Muslim Brotherhood. He has also refused to reveal the sources of funding for the mosque project, which is projected to cost $100 million.
More importantly, he is an apologist for sharia supremacy. In a recent op-ed, Rauf actually compared sharia law with the Declaration of Independence. This isn’t mere dishonesty; it is an Orwellian attempt to cause moral confusion about the nature of radical Islamism.
The true intentions of Rauf are also revealed by the name initially proposed for the Ground Zero mosque–”Cordoba House”–which is named for a city in Spain where a conquering Muslim army replaced a church with a mosque. This name is a very direct historical indication that the Ground Zero mosque is all about conquest and thus an assertion of Islamist triumphalism which we should not tolerate.
They say they’re interfaith, but they didn’t propose the building of a mosque, church and synagogue. Instead they proposed a 13-story mosque and community center that will extol the glories of Islamic tolerance for people of other faiths, all while overlooking the site where radical Islamists killed almost 3,000 people in a shocking act of hatred.
Building this structure on the edge of the battlefield created by radical Islamists is not a celebration of religious pluralism and mutual tolerance; it is a political statement of shocking arrogance and hypocrisy.
We need to have the moral courage to denounce it. It is simply grotesque to erect a mosque at the site of the most visible and powerful symbol of the horrible consequences of radical Islamist ideology. Well-meaning Muslims, with common human sensitivity to the victims’ families, realize they have plenty of other places to gather and worship. But for radical Islamists, the mosque would become an icon of triumph, encouraging them in their challenge to our civilization.
Apologists for radical Islamist hypocrisy are trying to argue that we have to allow the construction of this mosque in order to prove America’s commitment to religious liberty. They say this despite the fact that there are already over 100 mosques in New York City.
In fact, they’re partially correct-this is a test of our commitment to religious liberty. It is a test to see if we have the resolve to face down an ideology that aims to destroy religious liberty in America, and every other freedom we hold dear.
Muslims Resume Building on Christian Graveyard in Pakistan
By Compass Direct News|Walter Smith
SARGODHA, Pakistan (Compass Direct News) – Muslims led by a hard-line cleric on Friday resumed building on a Christian cemetery in Mandi Bhawaldin, desecrating more graves in spite of a local government order to halt construction, according to the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA).
Radical Muslim cleric Mirza Abdul Ghani had built a mosque on the Christian graveyard off New Rasool Road in Mandi Bhawaldin after allegedly occupying the land 16 years ago, when area Christians were too intimidated to object, said Salamat Zia of APMA.
“No one could object to the construction of the mosque, as it is in the constitution of Pakistan that no religious worship place could be demolished,” said Zia. “Therefore all the Christians remained silent then.”
The cleric’s alleged desecration of more of the graveyard land around the Masjid Ahle-Sunnat-Wal-Jamaat mosque began three months ago, Zia said.
“This Christian graveyard was earmarked before the Indo-Pakistan partition on Aug. 14, 1947,” Zia added, “and their forefathers were buried there.”
Zia, a local journalist and resident of the Muhalla Ghorra area in Mandi Bhawaldin, said it initially appeared that Ghani’s workers were building an addition to the mosque, as only pillars had been erected. Now Ghani’s builders have completed a basement as well as possibly some shops, with cement plaster now being applied to the new units.
On Aug. 6 Zia led a seven-member Christian delegation intending to meet with District Coordination Officer (DCO) Muhammad Amin Chaudhary, another district officer named Syed Shahbaz Hussain Naqvi and District Police Officer Dar Ali Khatak of Mandi Bhawaldin about the encroachments on the Christian graveyard and to discuss how the graves of their loved ones were being demolished and desecrated.
As DCO Chaudhary was on leave, Acting DCO Shahid Rana took their application and forwarded it to the District Officer of Revenue and Tehsil Officer of Regulations with directives to visit the site and demolish all encroachments except the Masjid Ahle-Sunnat-Wal-Jamaat mosque, Zia said.
After inspecting the site, the administrative officers issued directives to stop the illegal encroachments, and for a few days the construction was halted, he said.
“But despite the stay orders of stopping construction, the Muslim men restarted construction over the Christian graves on August 27,” Zia said.
Khalid Gill, chief organizer of APMA in Punjab Province, said that Muslim leaders threatened Christians who objected to the construction.
“They threatened that in case Christians protested against the resumption of construction they would also carry out a protest rally against Christians, and Muslim clerics said Christians would be responsible for the consequences,” Gill said.
APMA has demanded that the government allocate land for a Christian graveyard equivalent to the area allegedly occupied by the Muslims.
Local Urdu-language dailies in Mandi Bhawaldin have publicized the alleged encroachment on the Christian graveyard.
Islam Tax Dollars for Muslims
by Connie Hair / 09/02/2010
The Obama Administration reportedly held a special workshop this week to help leaders of controversial Muslim groups acquire “direct access” to taxpayer funding for their activities.
The event’s main organizer, the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) has long-established ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which fostered many Islamist terror groups. Some of CCMO’s member groups were unindicted co-conspirators in the successfully prosecuted terrorist funding trial against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). Event organizers said they would dedicate themselves to “cutting through red tape” to provide “direct access” to U.S. taxpayer funding for these terrorist funding-related groups.
An email announcement was sent out August 27 by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group long associated with Muslim Brotherhood and an unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF trial. The ISNA email said: “The Workshop: So what exactly is this workshop, you may ask. Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Twenty-five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop. “According to a representative of CCMO, this workshop is designed to clarify how Muslim nonprofits, mosques, Islamic centers, and social service organizations can strengthen their communities through more direct access to opportunities provided to social service agencies at the federal level. ‘It will hopefully help cut through some of the red tape and shine light on the many opportunities for funding, government assistance, and resources that we just don’t know about at the local level,’ said Elsanousi.”
The Obama Administration has not disclosed which CCMO groups attended the “direct access” to taxpayer funding workshop. The Department of Agriculture (DOA) referenced in the email as a sponsoring group did not respond to requests for information on the event.
Christine Brim on the website Big Peace has provided in-depth research into the CCMO and member groups. As Brim notes in her piece, the CCMO website has been scrubbed of a great deal of information on its Muslim Brotherhood ties, yet the Wayback Machine offers prior versions of the group’s website (2004-2008) that include more information on the groups ties to Muslim Brotherhood.
One such member list found on the CCMO’s 2007 website reads like a who’s who of Muslim Brotherhood organizations.
Brim compiles background information on several unindicted co-conspirator groups (information from the Investigative Project on Terrorism) listed among the CCMO member organizations and terror-funding linked organizations advertising on the CCMO website:
• The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial, and the source of Friday’s email promoting this CCMO/Department of Agriculture Event.
• The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) , shunned by the FBI, several of its leaders indicted or convicted for terrorism, a possible violator of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, sued for fraud by Muslim, Hispanic and African-American families, named as an unindicted co-conspirator (CAIR fundraiser advertised at the CCMO site) in HLF trial.
• The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), the “think tank” of the Muslim Brotherhood according to The Grand Jihad author and former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. One of the current and longest-serving officers of CCMO is Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, founder of the educational arm of IIIT, the Fairfax Institute and the director of outreach for the Dar-ul Hijrah “Terror” Mosque.
• The Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), exposed in IPT report for their defense of terrorists and terrorist financers. MPAC advertised here at the CCMO site for an event co-sponsored by Islamic Free Market Institute, the latter described in Paul Sperry’s book Infiltration)
• The Dar al Hijrah Mosque (known as the “Terror Mosque” in Northern Virginia for its links to imprisoned, indicted or wanted terrorists as vividly described by Frank Gaffney), advertised here at the CCMO site.
• The Muslim American Society “Freedom Foundation” (MASFF) run by three-time felon Mahdi Bray (MASFF fundraiser advertised at the CCMO site). The Muslim American Society was originally founded as the U.S. branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. MAS leader Mahdi Bray was elected on September 7, 2003 to the Executive Committee by over 40 CCMO member organizations.
The justice presiding over the HLF trial, U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis, was so concerned about the significance of the ongoing threat to America and that so many unindicted co-conspirators remained to be prosecuted, he ordered the documents submitted as evidence be put on the uscourts.gov web site.
For a broad offering of documents submitted in this trial, see the court documentation on the NEFA Foundation website.
When a party is designated as an unindicted co-conspirator in a trial it essentially means that the government could have indicted and prosecuted that party with the same evidence they are using to prosecute the conspirators actually indicted.
The sheer volume of Muslim groups listed as part of the terrorist funding schemes deterred simultaneous prosecutions so they were compiled in an unindicted co-conspirator list.
Two of the groups, ISNA and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), unsuccessfully petitioned to have their names removed from the HLF unindicted co-conspirator list. The prosecution blocked the groups’ removal through a filing in federal court in Dallas stating: “During last year’s trial, numerous exhibits were entered into evidence establishing both ISNA’s and NAIT’s intimate relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestine Committee, and the defendants in this case,” the prosecutors wrote. “They were intimately connected with the HLF and its assigned task of providing financial support to HAMAS…. That ISNA and NAIT appeared in these documents and share a common history with these defendants is a reflection of the evidence, not any attempt to ‘disparage’ or ‘vilify.’”
Politico’s Josh Gerstein this week reported ISNA and NAIT are again attempting to have their names removed from the HLF list. In a highly controversial move, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has sealed all of the filings and moved the proceedings behind closed doors.
Gee, just when the lame-stream media convinced you that Barry Hussein is a Christian?
How far have have we come to crumbling the U.S. Constitution. The first amendments has a clause about freedom of religion, and important right. In this nation we can worship whatever or whoever we fancy. When did the government start giving religions money to build their houses of worship? If the federal government gives money to the group building a mosque in New York will other groups be allowed to petition the federal government for funds for a house of worship for another religion. The last time I read we still had a divide between church and state. Is this the first chip in this right.