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Mysterious Group Buys Building Next to Ground Zero For Mosque
Hudson New York Institute via GatewayPundit.FirstThings ^ | December 16, 2009 | by Youssef M. Ibrahim

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.

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To: jessduntno
I KNOW I’m right...this will NEVER be built...I promise.

Good. I was just there a week ago Monday. I wish I'd known about this then. I don't know what I would have done, but I'm sure something would have occurred to me.

I was there in March of '02 as well. I have rarely been as angry as I was when I saw that gaping wound back then...

81 posted on 12/16/2009 3:23:47 PM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: Steelfish

Someone should get one of those hot dog carts and paint a picture of Porky the Pig on it. Then start selling ham sandwiches, BLT’s, and finger licking good spareribs in front of the place on Friday afternoons.


82 posted on 12/16/2009 3:24:18 PM PST by skimask
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To: OldDeckHand

It is perfect timing since they only get a closet muslim in the White House for a few more years.


83 posted on 12/16/2009 3:25:25 PM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: TigersEye

You are right about that. But that can change in 24 hours.


84 posted on 12/16/2009 3:25:37 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , and truth (.Member NRA))
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To: jessduntno

Nice dream...like what happened in France - that will never happen - now France is a muslim country...LITERALLY!


85 posted on 12/16/2009 3:26:03 PM PST by American Dream 246
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To: Steelfish

The Mayor and the City Council should vote for a special assessment and special zoning use of the building...because NY’ers and Americans in general won’t go for this AT ALL.

Tie their hands and make them pay ($$$$) - big time. If they can’t pay, the City confiscates the building.


86 posted on 12/16/2009 3:26:07 PM PST by khnyny (The problem is Obama didn't grow up watching "Hogan's Heroes" (American exceptionalism)
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To: Steelfish

I guess it’s considered Muslim holy ground then


87 posted on 12/16/2009 3:26:44 PM PST by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: Outlaw Woman

Muslims? Ground Zero? What could go wrong? ping


88 posted on 12/16/2009 3:27:28 PM PST by Canedawg (Bring lawyers, guns and money.)
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To: American Dream 246
Read that from today at Atlas Shrugs:

Islamic Supremacism in France: New Religious Demands in the Workplace and Hospitals

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/12/islamic-supremacism-in-france-new-religious-demands-in-the-workplace-and-hospitals.html


89 posted on 12/16/2009 3:28:10 PM PST by American Dream 246
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To: driftdiver
I vote for covering mecca in glass, right after we cover it in pig feces

The glass we can do, but I don't think we have enough C-5s, C-17s and C-130s to haul that much pig "stuff". I guess we could press some tankers into service to spray the stuff out of their booms. That would allow for a uniform coating, if a thin one.

The stuff would be pretty liquid when it would be obtained from hog confinement facilities. They hose them down, thus adding water, then then the "byproduct" runs off into catch ponds, and is then often hauled away by a "honey wagon", which is a just a big tank on wheels with a pump that can both such and blow. (Been there done that, but only once)

That I would like to see, a couple of wings of KC-10s, and KC-135s in formation, with booms converted for "spray", making as many passes as it would take.

"Abdul, what is this stuff that the Infidels are spraying? Don't tell me it's.... NOOOO!" :)

90 posted on 12/16/2009 3:28:10 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Steelfish

Words fail me. This abomination must be stopped at all cost.


91 posted on 12/16/2009 3:28:18 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: Jeb21

I think that the completion of the mosque would be an ideal time...

For a ‘Predator’ drone loaded with live ordnance to malfunction and make a beeline into the structure.

That would be the definition of poetic justice for me.

A.A.C.


92 posted on 12/16/2009 3:30:21 PM PST by AmericanArchConservative (Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

BTTT


93 posted on 12/16/2009 3:30:48 PM PST by hattend (Once we had Reagan, Johnny Cash and Bob Hope. Now we have Obama, no Cash and no Hope)
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To: mo
Governor Patterson and Mayor Bloomberg should hold hearings on this right out of the box....

Don't know about Patterson, but Bloomberg is too busy trying to prevent law abiding residents of several states from acquiring firearms under the laws of the US and those states.

94 posted on 12/16/2009 3:31:19 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Steelfish

Here’s my idle speculation which, hopefully, hasn’t already been vouchsafed before — Citibank with the monies they saved in taxes to the U.S. government. Muck fislam. Time to consecrate that ground with pigs’ blood and a few discarded ‘holey’ Quarrel-Ons in memory of the first pedophile, may he roast in hell.


95 posted on 12/16/2009 3:31:22 PM PST by tokerinchiefisanacornamerican (Tokerinchiefisanacornamerican)
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To: Stoat

The Muzzies are out hanging Korans on people’s doorknobs in Michigan. They are doing major proseletysing and our churches are doing NOTHING.

A few years ago, I was in Houston for a conference (and, oddly enough, to attend an Islamic terrorism trial)...and I saw that the Muslims had just bought the majestic old 19th century downtown courthouse and renamed it the “Islamic Dawa [Conversion] Center,” and had a big banner hanging between the columns proclaiming this.

Folks, numerically they’re not very important here. But they’re enormously well funded and what they are trying to do with these Islamic centers is project an image of being much more numerous and important than they are.

Heck, they have bought a ton of little tiny backwoods churches here in Florida and have stuck up signs saying “Islamic center” outside of them, even though you rarely ever see anybody there.


96 posted on 12/16/2009 3:31:30 PM PST by livius
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To: Steelfish

Seems shockingly true. Not logical.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/nyregion/09mosque.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&ref=nyregion


97 posted on 12/16/2009 3:31:33 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: Allegra
I was there in March of '02 as well. I have rarely been as angry as I was when I saw that gaping wound back then...

My brother worked in the North tower and I used to meet him for lunch or pick him up on the way through going north...he passed away in 1989...we were there a lot...it was a great place, busy and humming...God held those towers up long enough to let there be 3,000 dead instead of thirty thousand...I am wearing a pair of shoes I bought from the J&M store...some VERY fond memories of lunch hour in the plaza on a warm day...

No one will build a MOSQUE overlooking that site...NO ONE.

98 posted on 12/16/2009 3:32:19 PM PST by jessduntno ("The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.")
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To: Steelfish

Sounds like a good spot for Ground One.


99 posted on 12/16/2009 3:32:49 PM PST by mowowie
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To: Merlinator
How about a huge airlifted cargo of pig intestines dumped on it just as they break ground? Wouldn’t the land be “unclean” then?

They are there, the ground has already been defiled far beyond what the carcasses of (not so very) dumb animals could possibly do.

100 posted on 12/16/2009 3:32:54 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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