The Ground Zero Mosque and Media Sleight of Hand
The irony could not have been thicker: the New York Post reported Sunday that one year after the notorious Park51 “community center” opened “with great fanfare,” it was “now an empty space with no community programs.” Park51, you may recall, is the official name of what is more famously known as the Ground Zero mosque. The entire controversy over the Ground Zero mosque is an illuminating example of how the media manipulates public perceptions.
Now the central deception – that the Ground Zero mosque was never really a mosque at all — has been fully revealed. The Post continued: “What’s more, while the developers behind Park51 insisted for two years that the project was more than a mosque, it now appears to be just that. Dozens of worshipers gather at the site on Park Place Friday for prayer services — but that’s the only activity in the building.”
This is the ignominious denouement of the institution that its developer, Sharif El-Gamal, once boasted would soon be “the most famous community center in the whole world.” El-Gamal wasn’t the only one boasting: when Park51 officially opened last year, reporters from all over the world contacted Pamela Geller and me, as the leaders of the national opposition to the Ground Zero mosque, asking us for comment on the “fact” that we had “lost,” that the “community center” was opening despite our opposition.
But this was a case of a defeated side declaring victory and getting out, a la Vietnam. As both Geller and I made repeatedly clear at the height of the Ground Zero mosque controversy, we were well aware that Muslims were gathering for prayers in the Burlington Coat Factory building that had been extensively damaged in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and had no objection to that.
What we were objecting to was the planned sixteen-story mega-mosque that the less than solvent El-Gamal and his erstwhile partners, the unsavory and dishonest Islamic supremacists Faisal Abdul Rauf and Daisy Khan, planned to build on that site after they tore down the Burlington Coat Factory building, as that would have been a triumphal mosque built on the site of a jihad victory, like the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. Once Americans voiced their opposition in huge numbers to that planned victory mosque, and we exposed the developers’ Islamic supremacist ties and many shady financial dealings, the project was put on indefinite hold.
That you,Mr Spencer,Pam Geller and others who know the TRUTH about Islam are still spreading it,now, with an Islamist sympathizer now re-elected to the White House,is a wonderful thing. There are no words to convey my gratitude and my admiration of your courage. Only when the West understands the threat that Islam poses to EVERYTHING we treasure and unites to confront it will civilization itself be saved, absent an act of God.
Hey Chicago Tribune, what kinda Journalism is that?
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/12/12/hey-chicago-tribune-what-kinda-journalism-is-that/
Those who still haven’t a clue will remain clueless, at least until the boot of Shariah is on their neck and throat. And it is not as if even taqiyya-laden Rauf didn’t expose his hand. He did, and on many occasions.
However, those who are willfully blind and others who are malignant in their anti-American intent will never learn their lessons. But that doesn’t mean other folks have to be kept in the dark. Here’s the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia’s bullet, Sharia Law plan – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/25/the-muslim-mafia-aka-the-brotherhood-their-overarching-plan-what-it-means-for-americas-future-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Case closed.
I’ve thanked you before, too, Adina. You get it. American have more than socialism to fear, and nothing can delay that trouble coming every day.
PIECE OF RESISTANCE novel: FIVE-STAR ratings — “contemporary historical” thriller sees into the near future — http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0074QJEZU
Thanks for all that you do, Mr. Spencer, and thanks to Pam Geller too. There are so many willfully ignorant folks around, it’s getting downright depressing. Multiculturalism has been very successful in its actual goal, which is to do away with the West’s Judeo-Christian cultural and spiritual heritage and to act as a beard to this intention.
We have our own MSM dhimmis here in Canada. A case in point, this taqiyya-laden headline today over an article by Doug Saunder’s in Toronto’s Globe and Mail, aka the Probe and Fail:
As the non-religious grow in number, they become targets of hate and discrimination
Wouldn’t that indicate all religions perpetrate hate and discrimination?
Here’s how the headline should have read:
As non-Muslims in post-revolution Arab states grow in number, they’re often forced to live in hiding, and are increasingly prone to imprisonment and legal censure.
Blazing Cat Fur up here in Canada will probably expose this dhimmi rant.
For all but the willfully ignorant, Andrew Bostom’s Sharia versus Freedom is a compendial resource for the Koranic underpinnings, and its history of implementation over 1400 years. Read it and take to the streets.
Ah, so they get to pray surrounded by their triumph. And you think you’ve won? You think you ‘stopped’ something?
Talk about trying to paint a loss as a victory.
There should not be muslims praying within a mile of the site.
To Islam the picture is clear, it needs no explanation–Islam struck down the Great Satan and now the call to prayer is heard over the ruins.
When the 9/11 (NOT Ground Zero) Mosque* is gone–then–and only then–can we do any crowing.
*Call it the 9/11 Mosque. Name it for the attack–not the hole–because the attack is what it celebrates. Name it for the incident that sparks anger–not the rubble that brings sadness.
The official name is the nineteen martyrs mosque. For the brave Islamists who took the fight to the infidels, by flying infidel planes into infidel buildings in infidel America.
These animals pray five times a day. What do they pray for? More death to infidels I suppose. What a garbage religion Islam is.
The incident also revealed the ignorance of New York’s mayor and restated Obama’s heart in Islam. The promoter, a marginal, bankrupt neer-do-well hoped to get Saudi money to build but the Saudis doubtlessly were wise enough to recognize a hot PR potato not worth touching. The most depressing revelation, as you stated, was the ignorance of America’s hemorrhaging-heart liberals led by the likes of the New York (Pravda) Times. But the incident also brought to light the honesty, wisdom and resolve of construction workers who would not have allowed construction of this abomination had it advanced to that stage.
Lies, always lies from the radical Islamists. The best revenge would be to open up a big gay bar right next door to it. Just say that it’s a community “outreach” program designed to build bridges of “tolerance” within the city. And then add that Wednesday night will be “Come dressed as your favorite Islamic prophet” night. Half off all drinks. I’m telling you, this could be big and really spread “diversity” (among other things) in New York City.
And on the other side of the mosque from the gay bar, how ’bout building a branch of THIS establishment?
LOL…
What we need to do as taxpayers and true Americans is make these muslims and Jihadists uncomfortable in this country. Every time you see them take their pictures, Family Friends whomever they hang around. We have in our possession camera phones , there is no law that says you can’t take pictures of anyone without permission. Just take pictures of people who you feel are Suspicious whether they are people in grocery stores using Food Stamps to purchase their groceries , people in Muslim attire , people especially in NY who are on the street praying in front of a mosque. The same could be done at the so called community center by Ground Zero . If you get any people complaining tell them you are a writer and photographer for the Washington Post. If that doesn’t work tell them you work for the Government as part of the State Department. That will be enough and you don’t need to go any further. Compile your pictures with the circumstances and contact your Senator in Washington telling them you are getting a story together of criminal wrong doing by illegal immigrants . If we had at least 5 thousand people doing this and getting the info out , these Muslims would definitely be contacting the administration wondering why all these people are taking their pictures.
Funny all the same scum who sit on New York’s City Council and Mayor Dooms-berg applauded this Mosque. But god forbid you want to build a Walmart.
Islam means to submit…Every time they destroy a area of inspiration or strength they build a Mosque has a sign of victory this is FACT!!!
“Remember all great empires have always collapsed from the enemy within”
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Fantastic Article – it amazes me how complcit the media of the USA is with every single enemy faction poised against it. They willingly subvert the truth (with glee) and then simply suppress what they don’t want to acknowledge (unless they can slander or defame it).
I am come to the conclusion that the only way I will hear the true story is either from postings like this one, or from the foreign press (usually publications out of the UK). Our press is just nothing more now than a propaganda arm of the multi-cultural cesspool that operates through Socialist front groups that are bankrolled by America haters.
Because muslims have unlimited ENTITLEMENT–the evil will never stop. Never.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2011/12/unlimited-muslim-entitlement.html