Thursday, June 3, 2010

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What New Yorkers can expect from the proposed 15-story Ground Zero mosque
Posted: 02 Jun 2010 09:38 AM PDT
Stella Paul has an article at the American Thinker today that provides New Yorkers a taste of what they can expect if the proposed mega-mosque is actually built at Ground Zero. She says if they want to know what life will be like after the mosque is built and operational, they only need to take a gander at the impact that the Islamic Society of Boston “Cultural Center” is having on Boston’s non-Muslim citizens. It’s not good:

All signs point to a repeat of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center debacle, in which Mayor Thomas Menino practically gave away city-owned land worth $2 million to the Islamic Society of Boston, whose founder Abdurrahman Alamoudi currently sweats out a 23-year prison term for terrorist crimes. Mayor Menino donated the public’s land for the construction of the ISB mosque — excuse me, “Cultural Center” — with the standard pleas for diversity, healing, peace, and frolicking unicorns. Of course, he didn’t bother to investigate the peaceful healing record of the Middle Eastern men he was donating to: ISB Trustee Yusuf Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who’s been banned from the U.S. and dubbed “the theologian of terror” by the ADL; ISB Trust President Osama Kandil, director of an Islamic charity designated as terrorist by the U.S. government; and ISB Trustee Jamal Badawi, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial. But the mayor’s speeches sure sounded pretty, and that’s what counts.

When the Boston Herald and local Fox Network affiliate began exposing the ISB’s nasty connections, the ISB responded with the typical relish of democracy’s free speech hurly-burly we’ve come to expect from these types: They sued every single one of their public critics, including a refugee Muslim scholar who had translated some of their anti-Semitic, anti-American literature to enlighten the citizenry. Their brass-knuckles intimidation worked beautifully: the media went silent on reporting anything negative about the ISB, while the private citizens they sued were ordered by lawyers to keep daintily quiet. The ISB bigwigs sashayed to their opening ceremony in June 2009, where they were by top politicians, Harvard scholars, and Christian and Jewish clergy.

So how’s that new mosque working out for the Boston taxpayers who donated the valuable land? Well, there’s hardly a dull moment around this hardworking bunch. One month after the mosque’s opening, one of its biggest donors, Oussama Ziade, was indicted for taking cash from al-Qaeda’s top fundraiser, Yassin Qadi. The son of the Islamic Center’s vice president was arrested in October forplotting to murdershoppers in New England malls. And the Boston-based “Grey Lady of Al Qaeda,” Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted of trying to murder FBI agents in Afghanistan, enjoys the warm support of Imam Farooq, a leader in the local Muslim American Society (MAS), which controls the ISB Cultural Center.

And these folks who built and run the Boston mosque portrayed themselves as moderate Muslims who only wanted to help heal the rift between the faiths, a claim that only supports the argument that there are no moderate Muslims.

What’s even more sickening is that Democratic politicians are more than thrilled to promise the world to these Muslims in exchange for votes:

But for politicians who want to grovel before perpetually aggrieved Muslim groups, the ISB Cultural Center is a godsend: a conveniently located mega-mosque packed with thousands of worshipers they can simultaneously appease. And thus it came to pass that on one glorious May morning in 2010, Governor Deval Patrick was graciously granted an audience before 1,100 worshipers in a collective snit over the recent arrest of two Massachusetts Muslims linked to the Times Square bombing. They demanded their rights! They demanded the governor’s “Recognition of our presence, our pain and our power.”

Administering a high-stakes pop quiz to Governor Patrick, they insisted on an instant yes-or-no commitment on seven massive policy shifts. Would the governor grant them special privileges in the workplace, financial sector, schools, and with the police? Governor Patrick, who, like Barack Obama, is an African-American Harvard Law grad whose campaign was managed by David Axelrod, instantly capitulated on everything. Yeah. Sure. Shrug. Whatever.

Sadly, the Ground Zero mosque planners know how foolish, gullible, and easily led liberals are. All the mosque planners had to do was utter politically correct, multi-culti, can’t-we-all-just-get-along pap about healing rifts and bridging divides, and the folks serving on Lower Manhattan Community Board 1 swallowed their propaganda hook, line, and sinker, just as the folks north of Boston did. As a result, a 15-story monument to Islam’s domination of Lower Manhattan soon will be built at Ground Zero.

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