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Landmarks Panel Clears Way for Ground Zero Mosque
nbcnewyork.com ^ | 8/3/2010 | Puppage

Posted on 08/03/2010 9:25:28 AM PDT by Puppage

A city commission on Tuesday denied landmark status to a building near the World Trade Center site, freeing a group to convert the property into an Islamic community center and mosque that has drawn national opposition.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 9-0, saying the 152-year-old building blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks wasn't special or distinctive enough to meet criteria to qualify as a landmark. Commissioners also said that other buildings from the era were better examples of the building's style.

National and New York politicians and the Anti-Defamation League have come out in recent weeks against plans for the mosque, saying it disrespects the memory of Sept. 11 victims. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also chairs the foundation building the Sept. 11 memorial, has defended plans for the mosque.

To try and placate opponents, backers of the project are pledging to include a memorial to the victims of Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the center, the Wall Street Journal reports.

"We've heard and felt their pain, and we're extending ourselves," Daisy Khan, a partner in the building and the wife of the cleric leading the effort, told the WSJ.

The mosque would be part of an Islamic community center to be operated by a group called the Cordoba Initiative, which says the center will be a space for moderate Muslim voices.

After today's vote, the American Jewish Committee said the Cordoba Islamic Center "has a right to be built." The group also urged the founders of the center to "urgently address concerns about funding and support for terrorism."

But the Anti-Defamation League's national director, Abraham Foxman, said Khan's proposals fail to address the crux of opponents' criticism that erecting the mosque near ground zero is insensitive to 9/11 victims' families.

On Staten Island, in Sheepshead Bay and at Ground Zero, plans to open new Mosques are being met with fierce opposition, and none more heatedly than the one that could end up at 45-47 Park Place near the site of the 9/11 attacks.

Earlier in the month, Republican hopeful for Governor, Rick Lazio, called on Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, his Democratic opponent, to investigate the group behind the proposed Mosque and Islamic Community center a few blocks from the World Trade Center.

Citing the New York Post, Lazio questioned the sympathies of the center, called the Cordoba House, to known terror groups and also where the center will get its funding, stating that “the people have a right to know if this ‘charity’ is using its resources in a legitimate, legal, and charitable way.”

Mayor Michael Bloomberg responded to Lazio’s comments, saying that investigating or vetting religious organizations goes against what the nation stands for.

In May, Community Board 1 approved the Cordoba House.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: groundzero; islam; mosque; stealthjihad
So, now they'll like us more.......right?/sarc
1 posted on 08/03/2010 9:25:31 AM PDT by Puppage
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To: Puppage
BOYCOTT NY CITY
2 posted on 08/03/2010 9:29:14 AM PDT by Paul46360
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To: Puppage

http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml


3 posted on 08/03/2010 9:30:49 AM PDT by Paul46360
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To: Paul46360
Some in America have chosen to honor the murderers of the 911 Atrocities.


4 posted on 08/03/2010 9:33:48 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Puppage

OK, time for the Unions to show their American Patriotism and shut down all construction efforts!!!


5 posted on 08/03/2010 9:35:01 AM PDT by G Larry (Democrats: expediting the Destruction of America, before they lose power...)
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To: Puppage; LucyT

Ping, Sharia law is marching on!!!


6 posted on 08/03/2010 9:35:22 AM PDT by danamco (")
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To: Puppage

You hit the nail on the head. There is absolutely no reason to place a mosque near hallowed ground. It makes me sad that the memory of innocent victims will be disrespected by such a building.


7 posted on 08/03/2010 9:37:33 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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The reason is to plant a victory flag on conquered territory.

And 0bama and the left WELCOME them to do so.


8 posted on 08/03/2010 9:40:34 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: G Larry

That was my thought - they need UNIONs to build this monstrosity - where are they gonna get the workers? I don’t think too many Muslims are union members...


9 posted on 08/03/2010 9:42:00 AM PDT by RebelTXRose
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The Unions will do what Obama tells them to. They are selfish pigs who don’t care about America, only their left wing policies. They’ll work on that atrocity and gladly.


10 posted on 08/03/2010 10:01:02 AM PDT by beckysueb (January 20, 2013. When Obama becomes just a skidmark on the panties of American history.)
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To: MrB

I know that’s why they are doing it which makes it all the more heinous in my mind.


11 posted on 08/03/2010 10:02:02 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: RebelTXRose
While they're at it, why don't they let the Iranians build a G**DAMNED NUCLEAR REACTOR IN MANHATTAN????

Just put New York out of its misery...

12 posted on 08/03/2010 10:02:06 AM PDT by Huebolt (i)
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To: Paul46360

Now thats a boycott I can get behind.


13 posted on 08/03/2010 10:20:29 AM PDT by beckysueb (January 20, 2013. When Obama becomes just a skidmark on the panties of American history.)
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To: Puppage

Look for it to go down after it is built.


14 posted on 08/03/2010 10:35:09 AM PDT by Biggirl (AZ Is DOING THE JOB The Feds Should Be Doing, ENFORCING The Southern Border! =^..^=)
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