[ April 24, 2024 ]
I told ya so. Atlas readers will not be surprised at this at all. We are proven right again and again, although the enemedia never admits this. I wrote this in October 2010:
In a piece in Ground Zero Mosque was announced),
Imam and slumlord Rauf extols the riches of fine living. Couture!
Sports cars! Cuisine! And the world's finest prayer rugs (of course).
This should solve the riddle of where our two million in taxpayer dollars were going, along with the million from the Dutch government, and his funding from Osama Bin Laden/AlQaeda-linked Saudi corporation XENEL, not to mention our funding his Middle East junkets.Story continues below advertisementWhile the tenants in Ground Zero mosque imam's slums in New Jersey suffer, Imam Rauf enjoys the finest offerings money can buy. Just last week, Rauf was summoned back to court
(he didn't show, of course) as he was cited with more than 200 housing
and health code violations over the past two months. A couple of months
ago Union City filed suit against Rauf here.
Now it comes out that this sinister Islamic supremacist imam was financing this lavish lifestyle not just by ripping off his slum tenants and our taxpayer dollars, but by stealing from Ground Zero mega-mosque donors as well:
Suit: Money funneled by former ‘Ground Zero’ mosque imam to finance lavish lifestyle New York Daily News February 5
Mary Altaffer/AP
Imam
Feisel Abdul Rauf, founder and CEO of the American Society for Muslim
Advancement, is being accused of swiping donation money intended for the
“Ground Zero” mosque to enjoy a lavish lifestyle.
The former imam of the controversial “Ground Zero” mosque used millions
of dollars in donations to fund a high-flying lifestyle, a bombshell
lawsuit charges.The court papers, filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, say Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf pocketed $3 million from the Malaysian government and another $167,000 from private donors.
Chris Hondros/Getty Images
The proposed mosque building is on Park Place in Manhattan.
RELATED: EX WTC MOSQUE IMAM PLANS NEW FACILITY
The money — intended to fund The Shariah Index Project — was used by
Rauf and his wife Daisy to buy real estate, lavish trips and vacations,
entertainment and a luxury sports car, the suit charged.Smith, Bryan, Freelance NYDN
The project was controversial
from the outset because of the cultural center’s proximity to Ground
Zero, where thousands died as a result of Islamic extremism.The mosque project, also known as the Cordoba Center, was intended to
combat anti-Islamic sentiment while educating people about the religion.RELATED: MOSQUE HONCHO PROVIDES SHADY PROOF OF TAX PAY
Rauf was ousted as the religious leader of the planned Muslim community center in January 2011.
UPDATE: Here is the NY Times' take on the story, providing more details:
Donor, Citing Fraud, Sues Imam Tied to Mosque Near Ground Zero NY Times, February 5, 2013
The imam and former spiritual leader
of an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero is accused
in a new lawsuit of defrauding donors to his nonprofit organizations of
millions of dollars, using the money for personal real estate, lavish
trips and a luxury sports car.The suit against the imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, was filed on Monday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan by Robert Leslie Deak, a major donor to the imam’s nonprofit organizations, the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement.
Mr. Deak said in the suit that he donated $167,000 between 2006 and 2008
to a project to combat anti-Muslim sentiment. Instead, the suit
alleges, Mr. Abdul Rauf used the money for entertainment and other
personal purposes.The lawsuit also accuses the organizations of not reporting on their tax
returns approximately $3 million that the Malaysian government donated
to the two organizations. Instead, according to the suit, that money was
also taken by Mr. Abdul Rauf for his personal use.Jonathan Nelson, the lawyer for Mr. Deak and his wife, Moshira Solimon,
said that his clients first began to suspect in 2010 that fraud had
taken place, and that they had “gathered the information in bits and
pieces” by April 2011. The couple are asking for $5 million in punitive
damages.“They are just incredibly disappointed and shocked,” Mr. Nelson said.
In a statement, Mr. Abdul Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan, an officer at
the two organizations, said that they “emphatically deny the allegations
contained in that lawsuit.”“The lawsuit is meritless and it will be vigorously defended in the New York court,” the statement said.
The couple noted that the Cordoba Initiative is already suing Mr. Deak
and Ms. Solimon for $1.5 million in the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia, accusing them of fraud and breach of trust.
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22 Comments
11 years ago
“$3 million from the Malaysian government” — and they were claiming at the time there was no foreign investment.
11 years ago
Scratch a muzzie, find a thief.
To learn the character of muslims, just read the koran. Whatever Mohammed did, then every other muzzie, for all times, has permission and can do the same because the koran has deemed Big Mo the perfect man, Al-Insan al-Kamil.
So Mohammed’s stealing from others means muslims can steal from non-muslims.
11 years ago
Hopefully, he blows all of it. Seriously, he is just one of the 1% and he certainly believes it.
11 years ago
But, but…. he told us he was a ‘healer’, remember how that halfwit Soledad O’Brien fawned over him on CNN?
The Cordoba house — later renamed to
O’BRIEN: –though, right, isn’t that causing to some degree an instability and a risk, a risk of safety? I mean, there’s an address now that has become the flash point for a lot of anger. Isn’t that a risk to Muslims and Americans?
RAUF: There is a certain anger here, no doubt. But if you don’t do this right, anger will explode in the Muslim world. If this is not handled correctly, this crisis could become much bigger than the Danish cartoon crisis, which resulted in attacks on Danish embassies in various parts of the Muslim world. And we have a much larger footprint in the Muslim world. If we don’t handle this crisis correctly, it could become something which could really become very, very, very dangerous indeed.
And this:
O’BRIEN: The 9/11 hijackers said they were acting in the name of Islam.
RAUF: That is a travesty. That is a travesty. Just as the inquisitors, you know, in Spain were committing a travesty against the teachings of Jesus Christ. We do have people in our faith community who have committed travesties against the teachings of Islam.
A memorable interview: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/08/lkl.01.html
11 years ago
I’m more shocked that The New York Daily News is reporting it than anything else.
11 years ago
Time Magazine can name him muz of the year.
11 years ago
This seems like stale news since I read it here over 2 years ago. I;m glad the truth is out.
11 years ago
If you look at Transparency International’s rankings, Islamic countries tend to be more corrupt than non-Muslim countries. The culture of baksheesh, kickbacks, bribery, graft is significant.
Islamists who migrate to the West may bring these traits with them from their home countries.
Yes, crime and corruption occur among any group. But to deny that there are any religious/cultural factors involved is naive.
11 years ago
Pamela!
You are so true and so vindicated about Islam, again and again.
Islam is expert at every form of deceit.
And Faisel Rauf, sorry about that, you are a lying pig, a wannabe to the putrid likes of Qaradawi.
Best Always,
SO
11 years ago
So why is Bernie Madoff in prison, and not this guy?
Opps forgot, if he’s ever caught up with, Abdul Rauf will demand to be tried under Sharia law.
11 years ago
I can only enjoy knowing people who donated to the Ground Zero Mosque, were scammed. But not only is there a sucker born every minute, they seem to enjoy it.
11 years ago
What? He didn’t use any of the money to fund international islamofascist terrorism?
11 years ago
“What? He didn’t use any of the money to fund international islamofascist terrorism?”
Well, it is very likely he did donate to Obama’s campaign.
11 years ago
Ohhhh! It just does not get much better than this! What a shame he only stole $3mm.
11 years ago
Hmmm, for “entertainment?” I wonder how many strippers and how much booze the pious Rauf went through… What a sleazy dirtbag. (What else is new from these depraved fanatics, who possess little to no morality, while pretending to be “Allah’s chosen.”)
But you were right, my dear Pamela, oooh so right.
Of course, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for an apology from all the irrational harpies, haters and slanderers who sullied your good name.
11 years ago
since when aren’t the so called
holy men of jiss-lam
liars cheats theives adulterers
pedophiles murderers etc
this is surprising
this is ordinary
this is the way these
pigs are / live
11 years ago
“The lawsuit also accuses the organizations of not reporting on their tax returns approximately $3 million that the Malaysian government donated to the two organizations. Instead, according to the suit, that money was also taken by Mr. Abdul Rauf for his personal use.
Jonathan Nelson, the lawyer for Mr. Deak and his wife, Moshira Solimon, said that his clients first began to suspect in 2010 that fraud had taken place, and that they had “gathered the information in bits and pieces” by April 2011. The couple are asking for $5 million in punitive damages.
“They are just incredibly disappointed and shocked,” Mr. Nelson said.
In a statement, Mr. Abdul Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan, an officer at the two organizations, said that they “emphatically deny the allegations contained in that lawsuit.”
“The lawsuit is meritless and it will be vigorously defended in the New York court,” the statement said.”
Wanna bet they were reading Atlas ?
Oh the irony….
Pam you are da bezt !!!
11 years ago
I’m surprise Hamas-CAIR hasn’t said anything about this.
11 years ago
I am shocked, shocked that corruption is going on with this Mosque! Okay, I am not that shocked.
11 years ago
These riches were a gift from Allah lavished on Rauf in anticipation of his rewards in heaven for his service to Islam on earth.
11 years ago
At first glance this pig appears kosher.
However, a closer inspection by a petite
Jewish girl revealed the unclean evil.
Thank you,Pamela for outstanding moral
leadership.
11 years ago
The real intention of Imam Rauf is having the construction of this Ground Zero Mosque is not to have some kind of “cross cultural center’ as some claim as an attempt to cover up the reality of the truth. The building is this mosque at this place is to show the world the Islam is the “Superior power and the destruction of the twin towers is an example of this.” Furthermore, in a four night lecture in a church about the subject of Islam some asked during the question and answer part about the building of this mosque at Ground Zero. One of the speakers, Rev.Joseph Moussa, who is an Arab Christian and lived in Syria for many years answered the the message that will be send to the Middle East at the construction of this mosque is “You see what we did here, we brought down the twin towers and build up a mosque.” The other speaker was Dr. Daniel Shayesth, who lived in Iran for many years and in times past was both a Muslim and a Hezbollah member and is now a Christian also said the the building of that Grond Zero Mosque to the Muslim world is “We have killed and have been victorious.” Moreover,Dr. Shayesth in the book ISLAM:THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND on page 99 explains somethings which very much applies to this subject. For he wrote “The mosque is vital for establishing Muslims as sovereign over non-Muslims in a non-Islam socety. Building a mosque in a non-Islamic society or country symbolizes Islam’s claim over that society or country, even with a non-Muslim majority.”
