Posted on 12/16/2009 11:28:23 AM PST by Steelfish
Mysterious Group Buys Building Next to Ground Zero For Mosque Wednesday, December 16, 2009 Jim Hoft
A mysterous Muslim group with unknown sponsors has purchased a building steps away from Ground Zero. Hudson New York reported:
An identified group with unknown sponsors has purchased building steps away from where the WorldTrade Center once stood — to turn it into potentially one of the largest New York City mosques.
At the moment the building, the old Burlington Coat Factory, already serves as a mini-mosque: an iron grill lifts every Friday afternoon for a little known Imam leading prayers a few yards away from where Osama Bin Laden’s airborne Islamist bombers killed nearly 3000 people back in 2001.
The Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, told the New York Times — which put the story on its front page Wednesday — that he has assembled several million dollars to turn it into ‘’an Islamic center near the city’s most hallowed piece of land that would stand as one of ground zero’s more unexpected and striking neighbors.’’
The 61-year-old Imam said he paid $4.85 million for it — in cash, records show. With 50,000 square feet of air rights and enough financing, he plans an ambitious project of $150 million, he said, akin to the Chautauqua Institution, the 92 Street Y or the Jewish Community Center.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatewaypundit.firstthings.com ...
It’s that #$%^ nazi-trained ^^&^% communist George Soros & his Aspen Institute morons... again.
John S. Bennett
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John S. Bennett
“Co-founder of the Cordoba Initiative. He is also Senior Program Advisor to the Garrison Institute, an institution dedicated to applying the wisdom of contemplative traditions to issues of civil society.
“Between 1991 and 1999, Mr. Bennett served four terms as mayor of Aspen, Colorado. In this role he worked to build affordable housing, control suburban sprawl, preserve the environment, support the arts & humanities, and create an innovative transportation system offering alternatives to the single occupant automobile. In doing so, he presided over a $40 million budget, which produced a surplus in every year of his administration.
“From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Bennett was Vice President of the Aspen Institute. In that role, he instigated a number of groundbreaking initiatives, including the 50th Anniversary Symposium, which convened a diverse group of Nobel Prize winners, heads of state, and other world leaders from the fields of business, religion, art and academia to discuss globalization and its effects on humanity. He also helped create an acclaimed education program, The Aspen Institute High School Great Ideas Seminar: The Good Life and the Good Society, which remains active and successful today.
“Before embarking on his career of public service, Mr. Bennett was a successful businessman, founding and operating a small chain of restaurants in Colorado, Texas and Mexico.” [1]
The Cordoba Initiative, “founded in 2002, is a multi-faith organization whose objective is to heal the relationship between the Islamic World and America. Working through civil dialogue, policy initiatives, education, and cultural programs, the Initiative focuses on Thought, Action and Outcomes.” [1]
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Chair
John S. Bennett, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Cordoba Initiative
Courtney Erwin, Chief of Staff and Director of Programs at the Cordoba Initiativ
Josh Martin, Program Associate and Writing and Research Coordinator at the Cordoba Initiative and ASMA Society
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It's interesting that you can make that promise from CA. In any case, the union thugs in NY will build anything they are told to build.
I’m sure their goal is to complete in time for KSM’s trial.
“Who sold them the property?”
Someone, who like the buyer that understands Property Rights.
http://www.cordobainitiative.org
The Times article doesn't say whether there are plans to build minarets.
INDEED.
Man there seems to be a ton of posts that really chap my @$$ today. Rule of decorum, FR, and federal laws prevent further comment.
The West is nuts on this issue. Nuts, naive, stupid, dumb, idiotic. Far too many are completely unwilling to recognize Islam for what it is and what it intends for the West. I wish more people would actually read the Koran. That would explain things to them. But no, they’d rather pretend that Islam is just “another” religion, with differences no more significant than the ones between Baptists and Presbyterians.
It would be like putting a Nazis death camp next to a synagogue.
This is beyond grotesque.
Or pay toilets.
That is a symbolic poke in the eye if ever there was one. Such an abomination must not stand! Literally.
LOL. The mayor and the city council are so dysfunctional and leftist that they make the U.S. Congress look competent, sane and strong (for the U.S.).
SNIPPET from post no 142:
“Before embarking on his career of public service, Mr. Bennett was a successful businessman, founding and operating a small chain of restaurants in Colorado, Texas and Mexico. [1]"
Found the foreign money. The Cordova Institute is funded in part by the Malaysian government and has offices in NY where the 9/11 hijackers hit, as well as officies in Kuala Lumpur, where the plot to bomb the USS Cole was developed.
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