Pamela Geller WND column: Media shocked
Ground Zero mosqueteers are liars

My Wednesday column is up over at WND. Read it.

DEFENDING THE WEST

Media shocked Ground Zero mosqueteers are liars WND, December 12, 2012

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“It’s all pray and no play,” said the New York Post
on Sunday. “The Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero that opened
with great fanfare a year ago is now an empty space with no community
programs. And while the developers behind Park51 insisted for two years
that the project was more than a mosque, it now appears to be just that.
Dozens of worshipers gather at the site on Park Place Friday for prayer
services – but that’s the only activity in the building.”

The New York Post sounds surprised that the Ground Zero mosqueteers
turned out to be liars. I’m not. It’s the modus operandi of mega-mosque
builders. Sell it as one thing, but build a beachhead for Islamic
supremacism.

Aren’t you glad we defeated that mega-monster? Don’t fall for the
“they opened the mosque” – or the “community center” – lie. They were
always praying in the Burlington Coat Factory building that was
partially destroyed in the September 11 attacks, the same building that
houses “Park51″ now. Look at the story at my website AtlasShrugs.com back in December 2009,
when I first took up the fight. They were praying there then. It was
never about that. They pray everywhere. They pray in the streets at
Ground Zero – facing Mecca, of course. So what else is new?

What we were fighting was the 15-story mega-mosque they had planned
to build at Ground Zero. And we won. The rest is all propaganda.

And there has been plenty of propaganda. The New York Times kept pimping for the hustler
who is the “developer” of Park51, Sharif El-Gamal, long after we
exposed him as the fraud and two-bit gangster he is. El-Gamal thinks
that beating people up is a great “stress reliever.” He threatened Muslims who think that the triumphal mosque is offensive. He is a deadbeat who didn’t pay his taxes – to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars. He defaulted on not one bank loan, but evicted from his Soho properties offices. On top of all that, he lost in a series of lawsuits ConEd filed for back payment of rent. ConEd is trying to evict him.

The imam who had been closely associated with the project, Faisal Abdul Rauf, is another slick liar. As I revealed in August 2010,
he is not at all as “moderate” as the media are so desperate to portray
him. Speaking on July 12, 2005, at the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial
Centre in Australia, Rauf delivered a few choice sound bites that belied
his moderate image and raised questions about what the mega-mosque
would really have stood for if it had gone up.

Here’s Rauf saying the U.S. is worse than al-Qaida:

“We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more
Muslim blood on its hands than al- Qaida has on its hands of innocent
non-Muslims. You may remember that the U.S.-led sanctions against Iraq
led to the death of over half a million Iraqi children. This has been
documented by the United Nations. And when Madeleine Albright, who has
become a friend of mine over the last couple of years, when she was
secretary of state and was asked whether this was worth it, said it was
worth it.”

No mention of the millions of victims of over a millennium of jihadi
wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilation and enslavement. No
mention of the recent slaughter by Muslims of Christians, Hindus, Jews,
non-believers in Indonesia, Thailand, Ethiopia, Somalia, Philippines,
Lebanon, Israel, Russia and China.

Rauf’s words manifested no candor, no criticism of Islam or Muslim –
in other words, none of the mutual respect and willingness to take
responsibility we might expect from such a celebrated “moderate.”

And on the question of expunging Islamic texts of the mandates for
violence and conquest that modern-day jihadists point to, Rauf said:
“Islam does not need a reformation.”

Rauf also praised the worst extremists and inciters to genocide. In
his address in Australia he said he had just come from a conference in
Jordan featuring “over 170 leading Muslim scholars from almost every
part of the Muslim world, including some of the most important names
like Sheikh Tantawi of Egypt, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, who is the chief mufti
of Egypt, the chief mufti of Jordan, the Sheikh Al-Qaradawi, who is a
very, very well-known Islamic jurist, highly regarded all over the
Muslim world.”

The late Sheikh Tantawi several years ago endorsed suicide attacks
against Israelis, as did Sheikh Qaradawi, who has praised Hitler and
prayed to Allah to destroy the Jews. Sheikh Gomaa has defended Islam’s
death penalty for apostasy and sanction for wife-beating, and has
endorsed the jihad terror group Hezbollah.

Moderates?

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911 Never Again

11 years ago

At the June 6th, 2010 anti-mosque rally, artist Marc Rubin and I were exhibiting his masterful painting “Atrocity 911” (7ft x 14ft) http://www.marcrubin.com/911-2010.ivnu near the read of Zucotti Park.
Imam Rauf was conducting an interview for Al Jazeera. Rauf had to move to get the painting outof the camera shot.
An Israeli woman and her daughter were able to translate for us his words, “yes. of course this is a mosque. a rabat…”

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Caren

11 years ago

I’m in a debate on FB about the so-called Park51 Comm Center. I decided to call Park51 to ask them questions about which programs are currently available but got a voicemail. I left my name and number. After that, I went to their prayerspacenyc.org and the first sentence declared the “prayer space” a mosque, adding it is located in Lower Manhatten at the Park51 address.
When I challanged the person debating me, he said “their broke” and “unpopular with Muslims” and that’s why there’s no programs. I say the “broke” excuse doesn’t hold water and neither does the unpopular with Muslims excuse. The website clearly explains the organizations these owners founded and/or are members of.
If I am wrong, I hope to be corrected.
Thank you.

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Betty

11 years ago

Pam I have a question it keeps bugging me why are they calling the rise of freedom building. one world trade center? it should be the rise of freedom center and when completed it should be blessed in GODS name.does any one know why it is one world trade center. is it getting in with with one world order?

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KKKK

11 years ago

the Ground Zero Mosque idea is an offense to the 3000 men women children and unborn babies who were killed in the 9-11 attacks. they are all looking down on us to see if we will defend them. it is good that there has been so much opposition to this project.

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Walter Sieruk

11 years ago

During a four night lecture about Islam at a church in York Pa. during the question and answer part some asked about the Ground Zero Mosque. One of the speakers was an Arab Christian ,Rev. Joseph Moussa,from Syria and who lived in that country for many years. Explained that the construction of theis Ground Zero Mosque will be taken as the message in the Muslim world as “You see what we did here ? We brought down the tiwn towers and build up a mosque.” The other speaker.Dr. Daniel Shayesth, who lived in Iran for many years, was in times past both a Muslim and a Hezbollah member said the the message of the construction of this Ground Zero Mosque will be taken as “We have kill and have been victorious.” Furthermore, Dr Shayesth in the book he wrote ISLAM:THE HOSE I LEFT BEHINE on page 99 reads “The mosque is vital for establishing Muslams as sovereign over non-Muslims in a non-Islamic society. Building a mosque in a non-Islam society or country symbolizies Islam’s claim over that society or country, even with a non-Muslim majority.”

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