"The project isn’t much more than an idea.... the project that has inspired outrage hasn’t even begun fund-raising.... more of a publicity strategy than a reality"
And the MSM made it sound like it was opening up tomorrow!
Could it be, could it possibly be that your politics and political issues are ALL FABRICATED, Americans?
"Imam behind mosque plan remains absent from debate; Cleric’s motives are defended and criticized" by Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post | August 29, 2010
WASHINGTON — To pundits skeptical of Feisal Abdul Rauf, the New York imam is a wolf in sheep’s clothing who said he wants to build a monument to tolerance near ground zero but is actually an apologist for radical, anti-American Muslims.
I like to think of it as an agenda-pushing tool in sheep's clothing, but....
To people who have worked with him in the interfaith community, the white-bearded Sufi is a visionary for peace and progressive Islam, an American patriot who has toiled for decades to build bridges between this country and like-minded Muslims around the world.
Unquestionably, the 61-year-old Rauf is the product of some strange circumstances.
Rising to prominence after the Sept. 11, 2001, the former industrial filter salesman won a book contract and jobs representing the State Department in the Muslim world and teaching FBI agents about Islam.
Then why is he taking so much flak?
He was asked to become a member of the World Economic Forum and invited to speak with the likes of Justice Antonin Scalia and Bush adviser Karen Hughes. In just a few years, he went from an ambitious, well-liked leader of a small TriBeCa prayer group to a world player....
Yup, he is ONE of the GLOBALISTS and PART of the DECEPTION, Americans!
And LOOK at the AmeriKan MSM run with it!!
Rauf is absent from the firestorm of debate, sticking to his commitment to lecture for the State Department in Bahrain about, of all things, “how we emphasize religious tolerance in our society,’’ department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters. Rauf’s wife said he would not be available for an interview until next month.
That will keep the "Muslims did 9/11" narrative in the news and as a campaign issue, cui bono?
Now we have Muslim preachers acting as Zionist agents. Great.
Recently, he told a gathering at the US ambassador’s residence in Bahrain that the attention generated was a “sign of success’’ and could bring about greater understanding.
Rauf seems to have become a proxy for Americans’ anxiety about Islam and its legal system, sharia. The intense reaction to Rauf’s proposed project and some of his political views have laid bare America’s fragile acceptance of its Muslim minority.
You mean it's HATRED of Muslims, right?
Yeah, that brainwashing Zionist press has worked extremely well with many AmeriKans.
As for the anxiety over Muslims, there is NONE HERE!
The synagogues and temples worry me more than the mosques. What kind of organ-harvesting, pedophile, or other criminal evil is occurring behind those walls?
So far, debate has been framed around whether a $100 million, 15-story Muslim community center and mosque should be built two blocks from where Islamic radicals brought down the World Trade Center. But interviews with people who know Rauf suggest that the project isn’t much more than an idea and that Rauf’s most controversial trait may be his ambition.
While he portrays himself as someone who runs two influential interfaith nonprofits, neither one has a staff, and the project that has inspired outrage hasn’t even begun fund-raising, said Rauf’s wife and work partner, Daisy Khan.
Rabbi Leonard Schoolman, who hired Rauf in the late 1990s to teach about Islam at the Center for Religious Inquiry at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan, and who is a strong supporter of the imam, called the project “amateur hour’’ and more of a publicity strategy than a reality, meant to promote the couple’s interfaith work.
Oh, his FRIEND the RABBI, huh?!
SIGH!!!!!!!!!!!
Even with 50 media requests coming in per day, a part-time employee of the developer who owns the property in recent days has been the sole source of information.
See what the MSM is all interested in here?
Pfffft!
Yup, your election is going to be about race, immigration, Muslims, and mosques, AmeriKa -- or so says your MSM!
Enjoy!
“I don’t think either of them has the capacity or resources or anything else to pull this off,’’ said Schoolman, who accompanied Rauf to a meeting with civic officials earlier in the 2000s to support the project at a location farther uptown.
“I don’t think he has a constituency in the Muslim community,’’ said Schoolman, but he calls him an inspiring speaker and “builder of bridges.’’
Yeah, he does: an upper-crust of globalist elites that serve Zionist masters.
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Related:
"Trees are planted at ground zero
NEW YORK — Life is returning to ground zero in a tangible way. Crews yesterday began planting 16 swamp white oaks at the World Trade Center site. They are the first of nearly 400 trees to be planted around the 8-acre memorial to the nearly 2,800 people killed in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The memorial plaza will essentially become a rooftop garden, built atop the deep chasm left by the destroyed twin towers (AP)."
Yeah, how could that possibly have happened?
I'm tired of worshiping the myth.
9/11: Mosques and Memories
Morning Prayers at the Mosque
Muslim Obama Celebrates 9/11 Mosque
New York Praying to Make Mosque Go Away
Well, some things will go away:
NEW YORK — A college student accused of slashing a taxi driver because he is a Muslim was moved from jail to a psychiatric ward, corrections officials said yesterday.
Michael Enright, 21, of Brewster, N.Y., was accused of using a folding knife to slash the face and neck of Ahmed H. Sharif, an immigrant from Bangladesh, on Tuesday night after asking whether he is a Muslim. Enright was moved from the Rikers Island jail to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday night, said Correction Department spokesman Stephen Morello.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said it was not clear why he had been moved. Kelly said authorities see the attack as an isolated incident rather than evidence of a trend in anti-Muslim crimes.
Investigators obtained a warrant to search Enright’s six journals, but did not find anti-Muslim statements. Kelly described the journals as a chronicle of his time in Afghanistan. Enright traveled there in April for a senior video project at the School of Visual Arts. As part of the work, Enright spent time embedded with US troops.
The handwriting was difficult to decipher, and Kelly said officials have not done an in-depth analysis of the journals, but a cursory look did not reveal a motive or a deep-rooted racism.
The journals do, however, detail Enright’s drinking, and there was some indication that he had been in Alcoholics Anonymous, Kelly said. But it has not been determined whether he has a serious drinking problem. Police said he was drunk during the attack.
As if that makes it excusable.
Ever notice AmeriKans always holler alcohol when caught doing evil?
Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, who teaches politics and public administration at Dhaka University in Bangladesh, said the assault was at odds with American values.
Well, not really. AmeriKa invades people over lies and loves war.
Those ARE our values these days!
“We worry more because there are many Bangladeshi taxi drivers,’’ he said. “They behave as patriotic American nationals more than they consider themselves Muslims or Bangladeshis. Such violence against them is not desirable, and we believe all believing in democracy and liberty will condemn it.’’
I worry about all Muslims in AmeriKa.
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I will give you ONE GUESS what is MISSING from my Boston Globe report!
"[Enright] accused the arresting officers of violating his constitutional rights and falsely claimed to be Jewish....
And now they LOCKED HIM UP in the INSANE WARD so he CAN'T TALK!
The Anti-Defamation League said it had been tracking "an intensified level of anti-Muslim bigotry" in public forums over the past few months....
"The mood in the country, in general, is one of lack of civility and anger and rage," said ADL director Abraham Foxman. "When you raise the rhetoric on hate, there is always potential for violence."
Yeah, thanks to you and yours (the Muslim-hating, war-promoting, agenda-pushing MSM papers), Abe!
And haven't the Muslims EVER DONE ANYTHING GOOD, readers?
"Exhibit seeks to reshape view of Muslim heritage with history of advances" by Christopher Torchia, Associated Press | August 29, 2010
ISTANBUL — For generations, the lore of “One Thousand and One Nights’’ helped shape Western notions about Muslim culture. The collection of tales described an exotic world of harems and flying carpets, Sinbad and monsters, Aladdin and the jinn, Ali Baba and the 40 thieves.
And who controls the means of mass media in the western world?
It's no surprise Muslims have been portrayed in such ways.
Also see: The Pentagon's Million-Dollar Magic Carpet Ride
As for the thieves, try Israel.
Now an exhibition about innovation in Muslim civilization seeks to highlight what organizers say is an overshadowed period of history, a “Golden Age’’ in which advances in engineering, medicine, and architecture laid groundwork for Western progress from the Renaissance until modern times.
BLASPHEMY!
In a play on the old stories, it is titled “1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World.’’
The show seeks to be strictly academic, and shuns political or religious pronouncements. But the robust response of many young Muslims suggests a thirst for cultural pride against a contemporary backdrop of conflict and suspicion between the West and Muslim countries.
Not on this site!
“Originally, it was aimed at the Western public,’’ said Salim Al-Hassani, organizer of the British exhibition and an emeritus professor of mechanical engineering at Manchester University. “But we found that when people from the Muslim world, when they see it, they get fired up, especially the young people who are in search of identity.’’
Yeah, AmeriKans couldn't give a s***; they are more concerned with the programming on the Joob Toob.
When does the football game start?
It is a slick production, with an introductory film featuring a Harry Potter-like fantasy sequence with Sir Ben Kingsley, the Oscar-winning actor, as a mysterious figure who dispels three skeptical students in a library of preconceptions about the past.
I'm sorry, what did he win an OSCAR for, MSM?
Why the OMISSION?
The centerpiece of the show is a replica of an elaborate “elephant’’ clock that symbolized a multicultural spirit and pioneered modern automation and robotics.
It used Greek water-powered technology and features the figures of an Indian elephant, an Egyptian phoenix, a Persian carpet, Chinese dragons, and men in Arabian dress. It was designed 800 years ago by Al-Jazari, a Muslim engineer in what is today southeast Turkey.
Other giants of innovation during the 1,000-year period that began in the seventh century include physician Al-Zahrawi, whose innovations shaped European surgery, and Fatima Al-Fihri, whose multisubject institute of learning, with no gender restrictions, laid foundations for the modern university.
“There is a perception that Islam was always backward and made no contribution to the world of science,’’ said visitor Sule Seda Tezer, who was especially pleased to note the high profile of women in the displays.
And YOU KNOW WHO I BLAME, America!!
“The West has a phobia about Islam,’’ she said. “I think there is an effort to break the phobia and build better ties between the East and West.’’
That's because our societies have been soaked and steeped in Zionist inculcation and indoctrination all these years.
The exhibit has interactive features designed to attract children and showcases research in optics, music, and algebra from Muslim civilizations that once encompassed parts of Europe and ranged as far as China.
Yes, they also had an empire at one time.
One curiosity is a replica of the flying machine of Abbas Ibn Firnas, who constructed a winged framework near Cordoba, Spain, and flew briefly before injuring himself. Centuries later, Leonardo da Vinci worked on his own flying designs.
The MUSLIMS INVENTED the AIRPLANE, not da Vinci?
WHY DID MY HISTORY BOOKS LIE TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Istanbul, at least 6,000 people a day file into the exhibition tent. The display coincides with the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, and the tent stays open until 3 a.m. for a nocturnal crowd. The exhibit is free.
What?
FREE?
The exhibition had a successful run at the Science Museum in London earlier this year and will move to the New York Hall of Science after ending its seven-week Istanbul run Oct. 5.
Which will bring ANOTHER OCCASION to PROTEST MUSLIMS in New York -- JUST BEFORE the ELECTIONS!
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