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Rasmussen: Ground Zero mosque top 2010 news story

by Editors on December 30, 2010

COALITION TO HONOR GROUND ZERO’S STRATEGY, LEADERSHIP AND TEAMWORK LED THE WAY! Rasmussen has just reported that the Ground Zero Mosque story topped the list of stories the American public followed: “The story most closely followed by all Adults last year in Rasmussen Reports economic surveys was about plans to build a mosque near the [...]

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The New York Post reports this morning: So what exactly is their, um, “Game”? Mayor Bloomberg and Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the hugely controversial Ground Zero mosque, were all smiles last night as they posed with lefty blogger Arianna Huffington, who anointed them both “Game Changers.” They were among the guests Huffington hosted [...]

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Andrew Bostom writes today on the American Thinker of Bill O’Reilly’s challenge to Imam Rauf to “dedicate this mosque-community” overlooking Ground Zero as a “center-to peace.” By offering to wield a hammer on behalf of the Ground Zero Mosque project, Mr. O’Reilly reveals his basic ignorance of Feisal Rauf’s expressed ideology, including the imam’s Sharia [...]

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For Immediate Release Contact: media@defendgroundzero.com 100 Candidates for Congress Openly Oppose Building a Ground Zero Mosque New York, October 20, 2010 — The Coalition to Honor Ground Zero today launched its “Defend Ground Zero” campaign by announcing the names of 100 candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, from both sides of the [...]

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Former federal prosecutor and National Review Online contributing editor Andy McCarthy reacted to Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad claiming “That’s all I’m doing” is defensive jihad, today at his sentencing: Wholly apart from any jihad against the West, Muslims have been killing each other for 14 centuries, and most of the internecine warfare is over [...]

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Hisham Elzanaty, the majority owner of the former Burlington Coat Factory, apparently is looking to use his controlling interest in the property to both force a sale of it and to move the planned mosque to an existing building further away from Ground Zero. Yet the story within the story is the stark evidence that [...]

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The New York Post reports: The religious leader behind the proposed mosque near Ground Zero promised yesterday to allow the US government to sign off on anyone who donates to the $100 million project. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told “60 Minutes” that to reduce fears that terror organizations would contribute to the project, he’ll ask [...]

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News and Views: September 24, 2010

by Editors on September 24, 2010

* Record Challenges Rauf’s Perdana Denials * No Rapport With Afghan Leaders? Good. – Diana West, Townhall * The terrorists among us — New York Post editorial * Ground Zero Imam must pay cop’s salary for fire watch at Union City building with code violations * Annals of Sharia: ‘Allah honored wives by instating the [...]

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Sharaf Mowjood (in vest and tie) at “media training” April 2009. The Investigative Project on Terrorism reports: A reporter who helped write the first and positive New York Times story on the Ground Zero Mosque was trained by the group run by mosque leader Feisal Abdul Rauf, according to that group’s website. … The Dec. [...]

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In May, Ground Zero mosque Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf indicated during Friday prayers that he looks forward to converting the children and grandchildren of those slaughtered on 9/11 to Islam. His long time friend Yusuf Qaradawi is way ahead of him; non-Muslim children were recently brought on a school trip to the Islamic Society of [...]

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