Not Another Ground Zero Mosque Story

Everyone & their brother is writing or talking about the Ground Zero Mosque. It shouldn't be built on the 9/11 site. It is an insult to the dead Americans. How could one propose such a thing. I agree with those sentiments. Instead of further discussion of the site we should be discussing the who & why of the project. That will give us more insight into the where.

In this case, the where & why are intertwined. So why the ground zero site, really. In short, minimalist. Minimalist or victory over the infidel. That'd be us. Throughout history, Muslims have built mosques over the sacred places of their conquered foes to show the enemy the superiority of Islam. St Sophia's Basilica in Istanbul, Turkey (then Constantinople) was converted to to mosque by the Ottoman Empire. The Al-Aqsa mosque was built on top of the temple mount in Jerusalem. Then there's the Cordoba House. Ring a bell? That's what they wish to call the ground zero mosque. The first Cordoba house originated around 785 AD (date are iffy). The Muslims of North Africa conquered much of Spain. They desecrated Christian church & replaced it with the world's third largest mosque until the Spanish recaptured it around 1236 AD. It was great fun then as it still is now being a non-muslim under the Cordoba Caliphate. You can accept a second-class citizenship & pay the tax accordingly. You may convert to Islam, or you may die. Sounds just like America. I knew we had a lot in common.

Well, you say. That's all ancient history. The reason it hasn't happened in modern times is that Muslim nations have been controlled too inept to conquer anyone with an army.

Now, what about the who? The who would be the Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf. Who is this guy? The great peacemaker who just wants to bridge the gap between Islam & everyone else? I rather doubt it. I've been asked and refuses to classify Hamas, Hezbollah & the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists. Heck, even our government has done that. I have also claimed that we are at least partly to blame for 9/11 & that we created Bin Laden. What a guy. He is a big wheel in the Perdana Global Peace Organization. Ah, peace. Sounds nice. Perdana was the largest donor of the Free Gaza movement. Free them from what? They're already controlled by Hamas. And don't say from Hamas. The patsies & the rogue countries would rather them then under the control of Israel... Always remember, you can't side with Israel (on anything) & still be enlightened. Anyway, They sponsored the recent flotilla. Recall the little spat between them & the Israelis. That was a total setup from the start. It was always to force Israel into a public relations fight Israel couldn't win. That's a very abbreviated background of Rauf. There's much more, but maybe another time. In my opinion, this is not a good guy. Oh, by the way, Rauf wrote a book in 2004. It had 2 names. One titled in English & the other in Arabic. The English version was Titled, "What's right with America is what's right with Islam." That sounds nice. The Arabic version was titled, "The call from the WTC (World Trade Center) Rubble: Islamic Da'wah from the heart of America post-9/11." Da'wah in conjunction with Islam means "Inviting to the way of submission and surrender to Allah, or sharing the message of Islam."

We've covered the who & why. What about the how? That's simple.

Political Correctness. Although most Americans are decent right thinking people, it seems most of our political leaders are chumps. They'll bend over backwards to please a small portion of our society, leaving the rest of us hung out to dry. See, that was easy.

Now for a little wrinkle. (I can't help myself). Rauf has an Obama connection. Can't be, you say! (I can already here the wailing). Well, that connection has a name. Eboo Patel. He is one of Obama's religious advisors. In short, Patel is more than just a passing acquaintance. I've been to Rauf's home where they discussed the renewal of Islam in America as have recounts is his own 2007 book.

Last but not least, to theory. Bait & Switch. Here's how it goes. The Imam insists the building site be at ground zero. There's the expected uproar against it. Some people (useful idiots) defend the proposal. Most reversal it. The typical back & forth ensues. Someone suggests an alternative site. That's rejected. After more outrage from the general public some other politician says we'll even give you the property & maybe even finance the building if you'll just consider relocating. finally Rauf comes out as says, "For the good of America & the Muslims we have agreed to relocate." Everyone cheers him & they get the thing built. No one pays any mind to what will go on there cares or thereafter. Crisis averted!

The Ground Zero Mosque - A Waiter and $4.8 Million Dollars

Known elitist, Mayor Bloomberg wholeheartedly gave the go-ahead for the Ground Zero mosque. It's easy to figure out the liberal mind. Their minds are so full of mushiness. Thinking is out when common sense issues arise. Their practice of "tolerance and diversity" will once again attack the hearts of people who lost loved ones from terrorism. This time it's the people of New York City and countless others who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11. The families of the Fort Hood victims are presently being shoved aside in the name of "fairness" for implanted terrorist, Nidal Hasan. Nidal Hasan was shuffled along for years in the US Army while high ranking officials relayed messages to ignore his behavior. This went on for years until Maj. Hasan murdered 13 Fort Hood Army soldiers on November 5, 2009. They were afraid of "offending him". Hasan is still being issued paychecks from the US government while I waits for trial. This should outrage any American.

You mosques are built to denote "victories" and "Islamic supremacy".

AP Photo The mosque at Ground Zero will be a clear victory for Islamic terrorists across the world and an outright assault on the families of terror victims.

Whether the Bari mosque in India, the Fethiye Camii in Turkey, the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, the Qutub Minar in Afghanistan, the Asqa Mosque in the Hague (formerly to Synagogue), and of course all in Israel: The A the Asqa Mosque / al - Haram ash-Sharif, the Mosque in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the mosque attached to the Rambam shul'gina (Hurva), to name just a few well known examples (and there are plenty more examples from all around the world).This practice started when Muhammad conquered Mecca in the year 630 and converted the ka'aba into a central Islamic site.

Who is Sharif El-Gamal?

Sharif El-Gamal was a waiter back in 2002 and now the CEO of SoHo Properties which is an all Muslim real estate company formed in 2003. Sharif El-Gamal first took interest in the Ground Zero mosque site back in 2006. His partners include Sammy El-Gamal and Nour Mousa who is nephew of Amr Moussa. So here's the connection... AMR Mohammed Moussa is in charge of the Arab League and helped facilitate the Doha Agreement in March, 2008. This agreement was made between Lebanese political factions and shifted power in favor of the terrorist group Hezbolla. Amr Moussa travelled to Gaza in June, 2010 to demand the Gaza blockade be lifted. He was also the first important Arab leader to show support for Hamas in Gaza.

Shariff El-Gamal purchased 45-47 Park Place in Lower Manhattan for just under $5,000,000. It was formerly owned by widow of owner, Stephen Pomerantz. She sold the property to El-Gamel out of desperation to pay debts. She never knew he was planning to mosque. El-Gamel made another pricey purchase back in November, 2009. It's an office building on 31 West 27th Street with a price tag of $45.7 million. El-Gamal said the property has long term leases. Other motives for this huge purchase remain to be proven.

The money trail leads somewhere...

How does an Egyptian named Shariff El-Gamal go from waiter to multimillion dollar CEO and real estate investor? Obama our Justice Department will likely ignore it until we have an administration who respects the American people. More Bloomberg said "it would be un-American to investigate to mosque". Former Rep. Rick Lazio said "This is not about religion, it's about this particular mosque called the Cordoba Mosque, and it's about it being at ground zero." "It's about it being spearheaded by an imam who has associated himself with radical Islamic causes and has made comments that should chill every single American, frankly." And chairman of the Imam mosque project, Feisal Abdul Rauf has refused to denounce the terrorist group Hamas. In a 60 Minutes interview that aired on September 30, 2001, Rauf said "the 9/11 attacks were part of a larger Islamic reaction against the U.S. government politically". He said "The United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened." Well Rauf, this must also apply to the countless attacks around the world. In 1990 Feisal Abdul Rauf opened to mosque in lower Manhattan. Seven years later, I have established the American Society for Muslim Advancement (asthma), New-York based nonprofit organization which has been run by Rauf's wife, Daisy Khan. Rauf is a permanent trustee of an Islamic Cultural Center (ICC). After 9/11 the ICC employed Imam Sheik Muhammad Gemeaha, who later said that "only the Jews" could have perpetrated the 9/11 attacks; that if Americans only knew about this Jewish culpability, "they would have done to Jews what Hitler did"

The terror ties to this mosque project are undeniable, but our comfy, cozy, kumbya liberals will house "fairness and inclusiveness". El-Gamal is nothing more than a pawn for Islamic supremacy and the terror networks behind this mosque. SoHo Properties Is another vehicle to buy up property in NY by Islamic radicals? Millions of dollars used for El-Gamal's purchases are in question, but not by our own government.

Zead Ramadan, The president of the NY chapter of C.A.I.R., said Islam is "to religion of peace and justice." C.A.I.R. is the same organization that joined the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Answer Coalition to defend "The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development", which was shut down by the Federal government. The charities founders and fundraisers were found guilty for funneling $12,000,000 to terror group, Hamas.

Ones who preach "religious tolerance" are actually the most intolerant of others. Let's face it! It'll be a cold day in hell before we can build a Synogod or Church in Mecca!

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To Mosque on Or Around Ground Zero, From the Meaning to Hype Associated With It!

En el corazón de la exageración, en medio del marco constitucional de nosotros, más allá de las emociones desgarrador prevalentes asociadas a las víctimas y las circunstancias, 9/11, una cosa queda evidente, al menos abiertamente, oficialmente, sin rodeos Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf y su grupo llamado la mezquita de Córdoba, declarando "el período entre aproximadamente 800 y 1200 CE, cuando el Califato de Córdoba gobernó gran parte de la España de hoyy su nombre nos recuerda que los musulmanes crean lo que fue en su época, una sociedad más ilustrada, pluralista y tolerante en la tierra. "

En el Islam también simbolismo lleva mucho de su supuesta emocional, espiritual y moral densidad... una llamada a la verdad, la realidad y la bendición... En otras palabras, refiriéndose a la pregunta anterior, "¿cuál es el significado exacto de"mezquita"?...

Dos formas de entender las respuestas a esta pregunta:

1. Quienes analizar e interpretar desde el interior: Islam, la religión revelada final para la humanidad y nos seguidores por convicción, consulte la mezquita como lugar de culto en la paz y el amor mutuo independientemente de la raza y credo; y lamentablemente

2. Los que estigmatizan y deducir desde el exterior con mucho más inclinada y revestimiento hacia equiparar el Islam convencional con un enfoque alcanzarán al fundamentalismo... dibujo de noticias sensuales y fobia duplicado con miedo traficando tácticas a una religión que es llamada en árabe palabras como paz!

Recuerde: en el Islam también simbolismo lleva mucho de su supuesta emocional, espiritual y moral densidad... una llamada a la verdad, la realidad y la bendición...

De las dos respuestas dependiendo de donde elegimos a presentarse, podemos ver la mezquita como un componente de curación a través de uno de los más altamente humano abrazar ideales de la nación de justicia social, sabiduría, valentía y libertad de elección como nunca antes descritas y garantizados por la primera enmienda (uno de los símbolos culturales y normativos fundamentales de la nación).

Todos el sesgo mediático en juego, hasta la fecha, tienden a hacer mal para nada que no las opciones de los grupos de interés o una supuesta ética estadounidense y sueño... que es la cultura de la esclavitud que es responsable de tal una faceta de los medios de comunicación en los Estados Unidos...

Es probable que si no positivamente es repetido por algunos icono de noticias y, a continuación, es equivocada y carente de validez... Uno mismo (que es como duro apuesto) separándose ese disparate de sesgo mediático sólo puede ayudar a entender el verdadero significado de la mezquita por locales de cero... Una respuesta trascendental del Islam a una época turbulenta de nuestros recuerdos en un nuevo día del perdón y la curación... Amén.

Muslims Are Losing Ground

Salmon Rushdie may have been the first to flee the wrath of angry Islamic hardliners but now whole nations are on the alert. It is an easy thing to hide one man but nations are another matter. World reaction is followed by world opinion and depending on how much dust has to settle, following close behind is worldwide action. That action has been everything from hunting down major terrorists and dangerous extremists to digging for the root causes for all this anti anything that isn't Muslim.

Immediately after 9-11 President Bush sought to encourage Americans and warn the perpetrators of the attack in New York. We rallied around his comments with ears fully opened and hearts still burning with grief. Almost un-noticed in the melee of words and emotions he also said, that we knew the Muslim religion was a peaceful religion. Do we really know that? Up to that propitious moment in our history we knew pretty close to nothing about the Islamic faith. Since those remarks were made there has been a rush to correct our general lack of knowledge about Islam. So what do we know now?

The first person to cast doubt on the peaceful religion remark was Franklin Graham the son of evangelist Rev Billy Graham. He simply pointed us to the Quran where it can be seen in black and white that the cost of not converting to Islam could be our lives. The first reaction to Graham's divulgement was a little shy of a good old tar and feathering. Since then we have poured over the newly offered enlightenments put forth by authors, preachers, news people and others. Graham has been vindicated, our president has been a good deal less vociferous on the peaceful religion idea, and we have had a non stop crash course on the entire subject via the shock network from, Indonesia, Spain and London.

College freshman still argue that more wars have been fought and more lives have been lost to religion than for any other reason. Only a little more learning and they eventually stop sounding that obviously exaggerated claim. Most of the lives lost in war had to do with territory, politics, fascism and all the other reasons on a long list of which religion is but one. But how many converts are won as a result of religious wars and bigotry? Why can't the Muslims take a hint from this? How many people really wanted to be Catholics during the Papal inquisitions? How many got converted to Christianity because of the crusades? How about a modestly conservative, very few if any, for a fair answer?

About as much time as it takes to get a college degree has passed since 9-11 and Americans have been immersed in both its details and its concomitant effects. We have all figuratively earned our degree in the effects of terrorism. We have had our education bolstered with remedial courses from the subways of Spain to the underground of London. If we have learned nothing else we can at least say with surety that Islam is not a peaceful religion. It assuages us little to be reminded so often that there are extremist Muslims and moderate Muslims, when we know their guide book puts forth a mandate to take the extreme.That information leaves us with only two lousy choices. One is to be ever watchful of the extreme Muslims and the other is to hope the moderate Muslims don't get to serious about the Quran's extremes.

Perhaps a better question is what have Muslims learned? Has the slaughter of unsuspecting, un-armed and un-prepared people added any converts to Islam? Has it caused anyone to rush to join their ranks? The world consensus may be hard to accurately measure but it seems safe to say that not many are taking the bait.

We still live in a world where people don't like being blown up for holding an opposing view or for not being inclined to become adherents to one religion or another. I think that is why we call it civilization. Most people like to come slowly to their conclusions about God. Most folks still prefer spiritual experiences rather than human coercion. Most people would prefer a gentle Jesus to a poisoning Jim Jones. Even the cults have sense enough to feign love to the unsuspecting to lure them into their folds. What nation or what culture has ever been found to eagerly accept a religion that thinks blowing people up is pleasing to God? Why don't Muslims see they are doing more to harm their cause than time and forgiveness may ever be able to repair?

Rev Bresciani is the leader of a non-denominational ministry in the New Orleans area. He has written many articles over the past thirty years in such periodicals as Guideposts and Catholic Digest. He is the author of two books available on Amazon.com, Alibris, Barnes and Noble and many other places. Rev Bresciani wrote, Hook Line and Sinker or What has Your Church Been Teaching You, published by PublishAmerica of Baltimore MD. He also wrote a book about to be released by Xulon Press entitled An American Prophet and His Message, Questions and Answers on the Second Coming of Christ. Rev Bresciani has his own website which is, http://americanprophet.org