Khan’s husband, the peripatetic and elusive Rauf, appears to be in the UAE right now, on the final leg of his $16,000 taxpayer-funded swing through Bahrain, Qatar and the Emirates. From Abu Dhabi (a place awash in so much oil wealth that it is home to gold-tipped minarets, and artificially cooled sand at the better beaches), he’s been giving interviews to local reporters, duly repackaged by the New York Times — thus filtering his remarks back to the U.S. without the inconvenience of facing any tough questions about his equivocations over the terrorists of Hamas, or his offshore sources of funding, or the emerging news, reported in the NY Post, about his record as an “alleged slumlord.” (More links and details on the Human Events site, under the headline “Taxpayer-Subsidized Slumlord.”)
Here’s Rauf in the English-language online edition of the Middle Eastern National, effectively re-defining as “moderate” anyone who agrees with him, and as “radicals” all those — this would be the majority of Americans — who believe it would be indecent for him to go ahead with his plans for a $100 million high-rise mosque and Islamic center on a site so close to Ground Zero that on Sept. 11 it was hit with wreckage from the Islamist attacks (which, according to Rauf in a December interview with the New York Times, was a big reason he picked the site).
As Rauf describes it to his Arab audience, those who disagree with his plans are “a small minority” of “very small, loud and vociferous voices,” who dare to contest his vision that “the American creed” now requires him to build a mosque, originally named for the Muslim Cordoba conquest, near Ground Zero. Asked by the National reporter in Abu Dhabi whether he would have chosen a different site for his mosque and Islamic center if he had foreseen the controversy, Rauf replied, as paraphrased by the reporter, that “the Prophet Mohammad instructed Muslims not to dwell on past decisions and wonder about alternative outcomes.”
… So, to all you “loud and vociferous” folks out there who believe that the basic fabric of democratic society involves at least some minimal willingness to compromise, to correct mistakes, and to take into account the feelings and interests of others — especially within striking distance of a site where monstrous and duplicitously engineered acts of war, committed in the name of Islam, killed more than 2,700 Americans — well, sensitivity, schmensitivity. Fuggedaboutit. Credit someone, somewhere, for the “postponement” of Khan’s taxpayer-funded trip to the UAE. But we’re still left with a Cordoba paradigm in which Rauf stipulates that the views of a majority of Americans amount to nothing more than the irritating noise of a “small minority,” while his own preferences are to be accepted, yea, submitted to, without question — lest the questioners be denounced by Rauf as radicals and by Khan as bigots. After summering largely off the U.S. public radar in Malaysia and the Arabian Gulf, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, self-appointed keeper of the “American creed,” is due back in the U.S. shortly before the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks. One might hope that he and his wife will refrain from hijacking the real meaning of that solemn day with yet more of their campaign to become the inflexible and self-promoting arbiters of “tolerance” at Ground Zero. But I wouldn’t bet on it.
Within the House of War, it is OK to lie to Infidels.
It is the will of Allah the moon god, and following Mohammad class 101. Most of the globalist at State have not taken the class. They have only taken how to stab America in the back, but calling it the North American Union mandatory class.
I am a resident of Abu Dhabi, and I’m hoping you can tell me where I might find one of the beaches with artificially cooled sand. I’ve never seen such a thing in my five years here, but I’d love to visit such a beach. Can you tell me where it is?
Also, The National is a print newspaper, and it is only published in English, so there is not an “English-language online edition” of the paper. What you’re talking about is the paper’s website.
Your google-fu is weak young net-hopper
-the Palazzo Versace hotel-
go there for 820 square meters of cooled sand.
[Ed. note: Hi there. In re the issue of beaches, cooled or un- ... During a visit to Abu Dhabi in early April, I had a look at the Emirates Palace Hotel (http://www.emiratespalace.com/en/home/index.htm), and was told by my guide that the accompanying beach had an artificial cooling system for the sand. It's possible I was misinformed, and pending a clear resolution of the issue, I'm glad to make a correction: Abu Dhabi may or may not have any artificially cooled beaches, current or in the works. But it does have some gold-tipped minarets, and according to the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in 2007 it had a per capita GDP of $54,000, among the highest in the world, more than half of that from oil. Here's the link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eNAC-t7SQJoJ:www.abudhabichamber.ae/user/SectionView.aspx%3FPNodeId%3D1003+abu+dhabi+per+capita&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us .]
The Murder Mosque shall not be built..
Oh, it’s forbidden for anyone to even think about praying at an event the governemnet money supported somehow because fot eh First Amendment (for anything non-muslim, that is) but mammoth gov’t taxpayer-fleeced $$$ can pay for Feisel “Taqiyya” Rauf and his wife to go to the middle east to drum up money for the conquest mosque (which, if they don’t get enough, Democrats will want us taxpayers to pay for too).
They are building a DRAW BRIDGE. Most Americans aren’t the dimwits the media portrays. Since they are incapable of learning that reality on the ground, we all know who the dimwits really are.
If all the nuts who think Islam is truly a “religion” would read what they are all about we would. See their hearts and minds roll. These mosques are used for very little enlightenment
They are exposed. We know what they teach and how they kill and mutilate. Can a sane person fathom what a human feels ( whoops .. (No Eros here) to look at life as aki
and humans with
I was cut off . I am trying to say or imagine the deep misery the muslims. Live in thinking as they interact with the infidels to know they must kill us eventually!! What a dark outlook about life that can be. About joy, love, serenity, hope,music,art. Etc.
Stay in your land and fix it. Do not come here
ou deserve so much credit for the work you do, Claudia. Snifter clink.
Ever heard of the Emirates Palace? Cold water pipes under the sand keep the guests from burning their toes! If you live there, you should be able to find it – its pretty much the biggest, highest, grandest, most in-your-face hotel in the area (7 stars). Ring any bells, nitpicker?
@Tom Watson:
I’ve been to the Emirates Palace about 50 times. It doesn’t have a cooled beach. You (and Claudia) are thinking of the announced (but not built) Versace Hotel in Dubai, 150km from here, which was said in its early press releases to include a “cooled beach”. But it does not yet exist, and it’s not clear that it ever will.
I am glad he is having a good time. In due time, Rauf’s name will be associated with the decline and fall of Islam, not its supposedly inevitable success and expansion.
It’s clear that the majority of Americans don’t like being told how to think; being scolded for having an opinion contrary to any stateist viewpoint; and generally being denigrated for having common sense and discerning. Notice; that nobody is calling for these fine upstanding islamists within our administaration to be ousted. Who do they think they are, telling us to be quiet and roll over to their demands without the least bit of inquiry? Trouble is, we have a Congress full of this same mindset.
I’m sick of this stuff being foisted upon us. A man that espouses anti-American revisionist garbage should NOT be working for the State Dept. Ellison is in agreement with Rauf; so are the President’s Islamic advisors. Time to clean House.
At the most crucial time in the history of U.S. Israel relations; when Russia is alligning themselves with Islamists and Dictators everywhere, and a growing confidence in America’s demise is now being demonstrated right here at home; what are we doing? Nothing. The President’s off politicking and resurrecting Katrina, he’s blaming Republicans for no jobs; he’s campaigning again; evidence? Not a word about the most important descision of his life; will he show unwavering support and commitment to Israel? That tiny democracy that is in the sights of every Islamist around the world; along with the U.S.A.
Unbelievable!! I would respectfully ask that we pray for our President and for his family.
Seems Rauf has a bad name as a landlord in New Jersey.
Landlord’ Rauf Has History Of Complaints
Can imagine the rats that will start spreading from GZ if the cultural center cum mosque is built.
“Can imagine the rats that will start spreading from GZ if the cultural center cum mosque is built.”
And what about a huge Islamic center, capable of hosting 1000+ warm bodies at a time, in the middle of the commercial/financial center that is lower Manhattan ?
Demands that the non-sharia-compliant usurious financial transactions going on all around the mosque should cease ?
Demands for halal restaurants ?
Lets have an Open Cartoon Day at the “Centre” just to see how well it fits in with American tolerance values.
Maybe Daisy is busy working on the “slumlord” thing.
…tenants in New Jersey buildings owned by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who’s leading the mosque project, describe him as a veritable slumlord.
“All he likes is money,” one tenant, Vilma Then, says. “Nothing [in her building] ever gets fixed.”
Or rehabilitate the reputation of the building’s owner.
Indeed, Sharif El-Gamal, who owns the site — as The Post’s Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein reported Sunday — owes nearly a quarter of a million dollars to the city in back payments…Gamal, 37, also reportedly pleaded guilty to at least six misdemeanors while in his teens and 20s.
It’s nice to know who, exactly, this President, Mayor Bloomberg and liberals in general support so strongly in self-righteous tones of human rights and religious freedom.
Asked by the National reporter in Abu Dhabi whether he would have chosen a different site for his mosque and Islamic center if he had foreseen the controversy, Rauf replied…“the Prophet Mohammad instructed Muslims not to dwell on past decisions and wonder about alternative outcomes.”
I think that translates to No Freakin’ Way José.
Between Ramadan dinners and hosting the Muslim Brotherhood, it’s looking like the White House should begin flying the star and crescent.
Coming August 31: ‘Direct Access’ Stimulus Grants for the Muslim Brotherhood
Those “direct access stimulus grants” should help with the whole sabotaging America from within thing.
This mosque will be built, if they can find a willing contractor, and its proponents will glory in the fact that it was built in the face of vociferous, dissension by a majority of “religiously bigoted” Americans; more pertinent to the extent of the victory of Islam over the kaffir, a victory mosque rising at Ground Zero despite massive “infidel” opposition.
Jihadist terrorists will be elated and will go about bringing the “great Satan” to it’s miserable knees with increasingly determined fervor. Thank you Bloomberg, Obama, et. al., your “devotion” to the tenets of the U.S. Constitution and disdain for the great American unwashed is an inspiration to all that will bow five times each day to the east in the mosque at Park51.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/08/bloomberg-likes-menins-interfa.html
I thought you would all like this photo of the [alleged] Jewish mayor defending Islam in front of a display of Italian hams.
There is no comment from Mario Batali and Lidia and Joe Bastianich (perhaps they had already gotten the memo from Libya’s Qaddafi calling for all Italians to convert to Islam???)
on how they felt having the grand opening of their Eataly NY become the forum dujour on the subject of reporter’s questions on the latest on the Ground Zero Mosque (CB1 chair Menin’s recommendation for interfaith space, Imam Rauf as NJ slumlord, and El-Gamal as NYC real estate tax deadbeat.)
El-Gamal is trying to divorce his ‘vision’ from Rauf+Khan.
I wonder if CBS will still air their El-Gamal interview on 60 Minutes on Sept. 5, since it was taped BEFORE the revelation of unpaid NYC real estate taxes.
Maybe CBS should find a construction engineer who can comment as to how you blast a foundation to support an 11 (latest is 11-stories) or 13 or 15 story building over the #2 and #3 subway tunnel.