by Editors on August 31, 2010
* ‘Seven in 10 NYers want mosque moved‘ – NY Post (71% also said NY AG Cuomo should investigate mosque financing) * ‘Brother load of trouble for mosque siblings‘ – NY Post (other El-Gamal brother: “petit theft”, “larceny”, and taxes) * ‘The New Moral Equivalence; Prominent media hosts equate Christian and Muslim violence’ — Dennis [...]
by Editors on August 31, 2010
In the National Review Online, Deroy Murdock gets it right: “Does Imam Rauf embrace such brutality? Who knows? But the fact that he wants the U.S. to be “sharia compliant” rather than sharia-free should worry every liberty-loving American.” We’d only add that any liberty-loving Muslim who came here to escape sharia would have never disrespected [...]
by Editors on August 31, 2010
FDNY Captain William F. Burke Jr., of Engine 21, ordered his fire company to evacuate the North Tower when he learned the South Tower had collapsed. He stayed upstairs, assisted Abe Zelmanowitz in evacuating his friend quadriplegic Ed Beyea, and perished on 9/11. Mike Burke, his brother, is opposed to the mosque planned to overlook [...]
by Editors on August 30, 2010
Writing in Malaysia’s The Star Online earlier this year, Ground Zero mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf scolded Christians for provoking Islamists into burning eleven of their churches to the ground: “Most recently that anger has surfaced in Malaysia, where 60% of the people are Malays. The High Court’s ruling that Allah is not exclusive to [...]
by Editors on August 30, 2010
* ‘Daisy Khan and the Beautiful City‘ * ‘Friend of the Brotherhood?‘ * ‘Rats, Bedbugs Infest Buildings Owned by Ground Zero Mosque Developer’ — ABC News * ‘Rift Imperils Ground Zero Mosque‘ * ‘Islamophobia’ and Islamo-reality‘ * ‘Mosque ‘slumlord’; NJ tenants rage at G. Zero imam‘ — New York Post * ‘ Tenants don’t see [...]
by Editors on August 29, 2010
* ‘ABC News ‘Reprimanded’ Cameraman Who Tried to Provoke Ground Zero Mosque Protesters, but They Haven’t Gone Far Enough‘ — by Andrea Lafferty * ‘Saudis and mosque‘ — letters to the New York Post editor * ‘Mosque big owes 224G tax‘ — New York Post * ‘It took a Manhattan taxi driver called Ahmed Sharif [...]
by Editors on August 28, 2010
Debra Burlingame confirmed to us that Politico.com accurately reprinted her comments (below) in response to Mayor Bloomberg’s ridiculous assertions: It is bad enough that Mr. Bloomberg covers himself in the memory of the heroes who died on 9/11 in order to silence legitimate criticism of the mosque project, it is even more shameless of him [...]
by Editors on August 28, 2010
The full title of commentary this morning by Andrew C. McCarthy at the National Review Online is: ‘Why They Can’t Condemn Hamas; Rauf and his friends employ different methods, but they are on the same team.’ Imam Rauf heads the Cordoba Initiative that plans to demolish an 152-year old factory (which had a strut from [...]
by Editors on August 28, 2010
* ‘Park51 developer Sharif El-Gamal has a history of run-ins with the law‘ – “Sharif El-Gamal racked up at least seven run-ins with the law, including a bust for patronizing a prostitute.” – NY Daily News * ‘Mosque’s Saudi Patron‘ – Investor’s Business Daily * ‘The Last Refuge of the Liberal; Labeling all opponents “bigots” [...]
by Editors on August 27, 2010
* ‘Investigate America‘ * ‘Blaming America‘ * ‘Who Is Michael Enright?” * ‘Suicide bombers in heaven? Imam Rauf won’t say no‘ — “There have been precious few Baruch Goldsteins and all too many Islamic suicide bombers. And if high-profile moderate Islamic leaders like Imam Rauf fail to condemn them in the harshest terms then Islam [...]