Posted on 11/22/2010 6:48:33 AM PST by La Lydia
Developers of the controversial Park51 Islamic community center and mosque located two blocks from Ground Zero earlier this month applied for roughly $5 million in federal grant money set aside for the redevelopment of lower Manhattan after the attacks of September 11th, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The audacious move stands to reignite the embers of a divisive debate that dominated headlines surrounding the ninth anniversary of the attacks this fall, say people vested in the issue.
The application was submitted under a “community and cultural enhancement” grant program administered by the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation (LMDC), which oversaw the $20 billion in federal aid allocated in the wake of 9/11 and is currently doling out millions in remaining taxpayer funds for community development. The redevelopment board declined to comment on the application (as did officials from Park51), citing the still ongoing and confidential process of determining the grant winners.
While news of the application has not previously been made public, developer Sharif El-Gamal outlined it in closed-door meetings, according to two individuals he spoke with directly. The thirtysomething, Brooklyn-born El-Gamal is motivated more by real estate ambition—one of these sources describes him as aspiring to be the next Donald Trump—than Islamic theology or ideology...
According to an individual familiar with the Park51 application, it requests funds to cover a number of cultural, educational and community development aspects of the proposed 13-story building—but the prayer room is excluded from the grant application.
But the question on whether they could have is trumped by the question of whether they should have. The stated aim of the Park51 developers is to provide a community center for lower Manhattan’s 4,000 Muslim residents. Their own website explained that they understood the need to “appeal to the undecided, and change the conversation about Muslims in America.” It’s pretty clear that this play for federal dollars will generate none of that, starting with the lack of disclosure or community consultation before developers submitted their application, which was due November 5th....
300 people innocent people died, I refuse to have my tax money spent on a mosque. Screw Hussein!
What is interesting is if you read about the history of Islam in non Islamic countries, is that they use the rationale of being given funds from the country to build, as a reason to view the country as an Islamic stronghold.
Sorry, 3000 innocent people died, I refuse to have my tax money spent on a mosque. Screw Hussein! Let me say this again, screw you Hussein!
Can you say, "Crescent of Embrace"?
We already did commit taxpayer funds for an Islamic shrine, for the Flight 93 memorial.
They don’t have the money yet. The redevelopment corporation needs some heat.
Exactly! Why not give it right down the throat of the infidels. I hope they get it so that America is again smacked right across the face, in an attempt to wake this country up and yet again, expose the demo-liberals for who they really are.
Lets raise hell with the politicians in DC, especially the new ones, and remind them of the seperation of church and state. It is time to take the gloves off with these raghead sons of bitches.
Understand, I do that too. ;>)
Indeed. Even more so, the mayor of NYC and the President of the United States have gone out of their way to facilitate the building of the Ground Zero Victory Mosque.
Indeed. Even more so, the mayor of NYC and the President of the United States have gone out of their way to facilitate the building of the Ground Zero Victory Mosque.
Get a grip and stop posting bait for Bill O’Reilly.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2627899/posts?page=21#21
Why should this surprise anyone? The man who is building the mosque is a slum landlord in NJ, with multiple high rise tenements that he build with government grants. That’s how the man operates. His wife explained that he must use government money because he makes no money as an Muslim imam. Profiteering off the the tax payers is his only means of support.
Obi Wanna a new President
Oh yes, It would be terrible for we infidels of the west to be responsible
for bad PR for the death cult that took the lives of so many fellow Americans
that clear Tuesday morning.
The equivocating Bill O'Reilly can kiss my ass and call it a love story.
9/11/01 ~ Never Forget!
How do we bring the heat on those mfuppers!
Give me a break.
A guy calls for genocide and you call that a case of bad PR?
I didn’t say we should all join hands and sing Kumbaya with the Muslims, I told a guy calling for genocide in the language Farrakhan uses about Jews to cram it.If you have a problem with that, you can cram it, too.
You can say Ted Baxter can kiss your butt, however, Ted Baxter slandered this site on one of themost watched TV shows on the planet based on “racist” comments taken out of context. Imagine what he can do with the real stuff.
Hand your enemy a weapon and pretend it makes you tough and principled. I prefer winning, thanks.
Michael Bloombergs office phone numbers etc, Go get them FReepers
Just more equivocation.
Equivocate: to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge
I invite readers to look at either of my previous posts in this thread, either the one where I told thethirddegree to cram it or the one where I told Liberty Valance to cram it, and identify where I was ambiguous or unclear about my commitment.
I wasn’t.
I was clear.
I’ll be clear again: Take your calls for genocide and cram them into your sigmoid colon.
I trust there’s no ambiguity there.
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