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Looks like we rattled some cages last weekend. NBC is reporting that the ummah in NYC has its feathers well and truly ruffled and is planning a pigeon coo for this weekend to support the Ground Zero 9/11 Victory Rabat and Interfaith Table Tennis Club and to plan strategies to oppose "religious bigotry". In other words, how to get this Sharia Shack shoved down the throats of the Kuffar whether they like it or not.
Please let there be one "journalist" left in New York with the integrity to ask them about the Center for Security Policy Report, get Rauf to make another stupid remark about Sharia being compatible with the Constitution. And let there be a few people left awake in this country who will put the two together and begin to realize how far up shit creek without a paddle we really are while there is still time to do something about it.
Muslim Summit in NYC in Response to anti-Mosque Furor
By DAVID B. CARUSO
Some Muslims who were initially indifferent about a proposed Islamic center near the World Trade Center site are now rallying around the plan, partly in response to a sense that their faith is under assault.
A summit of U.S. Muslim organizations is planned for Saturday and Sunday in New York City to address both the project and a rise in anti-Muslim sentiments and rhetoric that has accompanied the debate over the project.
It has yet to be seen whether the group will emerge with a firm stand on the proposed community center, dubbed Park51. The primary purpose of the two-day meeting is to talk about ways to combat religious bigotry.
But Shaik Ubaid of the Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York, one of the groups organizing the gathering, said he has a growing sense that the project is being embraced by American Muslims and Muslim groups after some initial trepidation.
"Once it became a rallying cry for extremists, we had no choice but to stand with Feisal Rauf," he said, referring to the New York City imam who has been leading the drive for the center.
Groups scheduled to participate in the summit include the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim Alliance of North America and the Council on American Islamic Relations.
Gauging support for the center among U.S. Muslims is difficult. As a group, they are diverse, ranging from blacks who found the faith during the civil rights movement to recent immigrants hailing from opposite ends of the globe. They rarely speak with one voice.
Yet after a pastor in Florida injected himself into the debate by threatening to burn copies of the Quran, U.S. Muslims stirred.
"I think most Muslims outside New York City are more concerned about the backlash than the actual center, which most of them will never directly benefit from," said Shahed Amanullah, the editor-in-chief of the website altmuslim.com and a group of other Islam-themed sites.
"Grass-roots support is indeed building," he said, "but that is probably more due to the pushback against the general hostile climate."
The center's location two blocks from ground zero has upset some relatives of Sept. 11 victims and stirred nationwide debate and angry demands that it be moved. Critics say the site of mass murder by Islamic extremists is no place for an Islamic institution.
Read the rest here. It's just more yadda about Rauf and Gamal's financial shenanigans.
Copyright Associated Press First Published: Sep 17, 2010 5:39 PM EDT
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Imam Says NYC Mosque Site Is Not 'Hallowed Ground' Sept. 13: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, addresses the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (AP). NEW YORK -- The imam leading the effort to build...
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This year, the commemoration follows a stunning summer in which opposition to a planned Islamic community center near the World Trade Center site escalated into a national uproar over Islam, extremism and religious freedom. It's about damn time Muslims...
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The 1st Islamic Center Of NYC – FlashbackWe almost missed this detail about the Ground Zero Mosque’s Imam, from the Associated Press: Islamic Cultural Center of New YorkImam behind NYC mosque faces divisions over centerAugust 30, 2010 … Rauf was...
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NY Times Scrubs Imam Rauf's Controversial Islamic Supremacist Ground Zero Mosque Remark, "New York is the capital of the world, and this location close to 9/11 is iconic"From Pamela at Atlas Shrugs: Back on December 8, 2009, the New York Times ran...
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Muslim leaders to abandon plans for Ground Zero community centerInsiders say Muslim spiritual leaders behind the controversial initiative are considering giving up on the former World Trade Center location, in a gesture of appeasement.Oh noes, we shoulda...
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Muslims Plan Whining Summit To Support GZ Rabat Plan
Looks like we rattled some cages last weekend. NBC is reporting that the ummah in NYC has its feathers well and truly ruffled and is planning a pigeon coo for this weekend to support the Ground Zero 9/11 Victory Rabat and Interfaith Table Tennis Club and to plan strategies to oppose "religious bigotry". In other words, how to get this Sharia Shack shoved down the throats of the Kuffar whether they like it or not.
Please let there be one "journalist" left in New York with the integrity to ask them about the Center for Security Policy Report, get Rauf to make another stupid remark about Sharia being compatible with the Constitution. And let there be a few people left awake in this country who will put the two together and begin to realize how far up shit creek without a paddle we really are while there is still time to do something about it.
Muslim Summit in NYC in Response to anti-Mosque Furor
By DAVID B. CARUSO
Some Muslims who were initially indifferent about a proposed Islamic center near the World Trade Center site are now rallying around the plan, partly in response to a sense that their faith is under assault.
A summit of U.S. Muslim organizations is planned for Saturday and Sunday in New York City to address both the project and a rise in anti-Muslim sentiments and rhetoric that has accompanied the debate over the project.
It has yet to be seen whether the group will emerge with a firm stand on the proposed community center, dubbed Park51. The primary purpose of the two-day meeting is to talk about ways to combat religious bigotry.
But Shaik Ubaid of the Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York, one of the groups organizing the gathering, said he has a growing sense that the project is being embraced by American Muslims and Muslim groups after some initial trepidation.
"Once it became a rallying cry for extremists, we had no choice but to stand with Feisal Rauf," he said, referring to the New York City imam who has been leading the drive for the center.
Groups scheduled to participate in the summit include the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim Alliance of North America and the Council on American Islamic Relations.
Gauging support for the center among U.S. Muslims is difficult. As a group, they are diverse, ranging from blacks who found the faith during the civil rights movement to recent immigrants hailing from opposite ends of the globe. They rarely speak with one voice.
Yet after a pastor in Florida injected himself into the debate by threatening to burn copies of the Quran, U.S. Muslims stirred.
"I think most Muslims outside New York City are more concerned about the backlash than the actual center, which most of them will never directly benefit from," said Shahed Amanullah, the editor-in-chief of the website altmuslim.com and a group of other Islam-themed sites.
"Grass-roots support is indeed building," he said, "but that is probably more due to the pushback against the general hostile climate."
The center's location two blocks from ground zero has upset some relatives of Sept. 11 victims and stirred nationwide debate and angry demands that it be moved. Critics say the site of mass murder by Islamic extremists is no place for an Islamic institution.
Read the rest here. It's just more yadda about Rauf and Gamal's financial shenanigans.
Copyright Associated Press First Published: Sep 17, 2010 5:39 PM EDT
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Imam Says NYC Mosque Site Is Not 'Hallowed Ground' Sept. 13: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, addresses the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (AP). NEW YORK -- The imam leading the effort to build...
-
This year, the commemoration follows a stunning summer in which opposition to a planned Islamic community center near the World Trade Center site escalated into a national uproar over Islam, extremism and religious freedom. It's about damn time Muslims...
-
The 1st Islamic Center Of NYC – FlashbackWe almost missed this detail about the Ground Zero Mosque’s Imam, from the Associated Press: Islamic Cultural Center of New YorkImam behind NYC mosque faces divisions over centerAugust 30, 2010 … Rauf was...
-
NY Times Scrubs Imam Rauf's Controversial Islamic Supremacist Ground Zero Mosque Remark, "New York is the capital of the world, and this location close to 9/11 is iconic"From Pamela at Atlas Shrugs: Back on December 8, 2009, the New York Times ran...
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Muslim leaders to abandon plans for Ground Zero community centerInsiders say Muslim spiritual leaders behind the controversial initiative are considering giving up on the former World Trade Center location, in a gesture of appeasement.Oh noes, we shoulda...