Pamela Geller, Human Events: A Ray of Hope for St. Nicholas Church at Ground Zero: Join the Cause!

Check out my latest on St. Nicholas Church and the Ground Zero mosquestrosity at Ground Zero, in Human Events today:

A Ray of Hope for St. Nicholas Church at Ground Zero: Join the Cause! Pamela Geller, Human Events

There are new developments in the ongoing story of how New York City officials are rushing to build the Ground Zero mosquestrosity while throwing roadblocks in the way of rebuilding St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which stood at the base of the World Trade Center towers until it was destroyed by Muslim terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.  City officials have been dragging their feet and ignoring entreaties from supporters of the church.  Now at last, church members have some small bit of hope.
 
New York City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. told the nation’s oldest and largest Greek-American newspaper, the National Herald, that he had spoken with Christopher Ward, executive director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, and was “optimistic” that the impasse between the church and the Port Authority would soon be resolved.  Ward previously reneged on an agreement to move the church to a new site near its previous location at Ground Zero, but nonetheless there was some indication that he may have been speaking more honestly this time.  Vallone said, according to the National Herald, that he told Ward that he was “adamant” that the church be rebuilt, and Ward agreed.
 
That is something, but it still isn’t much.  Evan Lambrou, former editor of the National Herald, told me that “the issue is still being tossed about in federal court (in pretrial discovery).  The Port Authority [PA] is still stalling on providing evidence to a federal judge [which could also mean it’s trying to fabricate evidence], and the PA wants to push rebuilding the church off to 2014, which leaves room for rendering the church project to something insignificant and irrelevant.”
 
St. Nicholas Parish Council President John Couloucoundis says that when it comes to dealing justly with the church, “The PA just can’t be bothered” and “is doing anything it can to stonewall.”  However, he is still cautiously optimistic:  “Given the way the court has come down on the Port Authority to get them moving, things will come to a boil fairly soon.”
 
What’s ironic is that in contrast to the deceptive claims being made by the Islamic supremacist grifters behind the Ground Zero mega-mosque, the rebuilt St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church would be a real interfaith community center.  Nicholas Koutsomitis, an adjunct associate professor at the Pratt Institute and CEO of Koutsomitis Architects, which is working on plans for the new church, explains:  “The idea is to build a world-class church that everyone will be proud of—Greeks and Americans—and that will be welcoming to the people of many different backgrounds.”  Koutsomitis says that the rebuilt church will be “unique, a Greek Orthodox Church with an interreligious component [that is inviting to] people seeking a place of contemplation.”

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sean

12 years ago

The diffrence between a church and a mosque is that a church is a place of spirituality, peace and sanctuary.
A mosque is always a quasi-military citadel and centre of subversion, intimidation and aggression. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister and ex-mayor of Istanbul, says that ‘the mosques are our barracks, the minarets our bayonets, the domes our helmets, and the believers our soldiers.’
The noisy call to prayer is an act of dominance and aggression. The louder it is, the better. Mosques are always supposed to be built in high ground, or in the most imposing spot, towering over churches and synagogues, in the lands first conquered by Islam. Those aggressive skyward thrusting minarets are symbols of power, of dominance… http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/mosque-blight.html

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12 years ago

It’s very much worth repeating that at a church lecture last year in York Pa. on the subject of Islam the subject come of the Ground Zero Mosque. One of the speakers was Christian Arab, Rev. Joseph Moussa, who lived in Syria for many years and he said that the construction of this mosques will be taken in the Middle East as “You see what we did here, we brought down the twin towers and build up a mosque.” Furthermore, the other speaker, Dr.Daniel Shayesth, who in times past was both a Muslim and a Hezbollah member and is now a Christian. Said that in the Middle East the building of the Grown Zero Mosque will be taken as as message that ‘We have killed and have been victorious.” Moreover, in his book ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND on page 99 Dr. Shayesteh wrote “The mosque is vital for establishing Muslims as sovereign over non-Muslims in a non-Islamic society. Building a mosque in aq non-Islamic society or country symbolizies Islam’s claim over that society or country, even with a non-Muslim majority.”

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jj

12 years ago

pamela:
if you can help get this orthodox church rebuilt where it stood it will be a lasting monument of your efforts to fight for and establish good.
john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa

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