Bloomberg Says His Proudest Moment Was When Threw His Support Behind the Ground Zero Mosque

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Yes, he really did. Failed presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael “Mini Mike” Bloomberg declared at AIPAC last week: “I was never prouder than when I stood in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty and argued that Muslims had every right to build a Mosque anywhere in our city, including near the World Trade Center.” As he basked in the glow of this pride, Bloomberg didn’t mention the fact that millions of Americans disagreed, and the sinister Ground Zero Mosque project was defeated.

Bloomberg certainly did all he could to help the project succeed. The infamous Ground Zero Mosque was Bloomberg’s pet project. His mayoral office helped the project organizers through New York City’s maze of regulations, while Hizzoner himself hailed the construction of what was slated to be a 16-story mega-mosque built on the site of a building that was right next to World Trade Center, and that was extensively damaged in the 9/11 attacks.

Not just Bloomberg, but all the Leftist intelligentsia, including Barack Obama, thought the Ground Zero Mosque was positively a grand idea, but the planned 16-story structure was not built during Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor, and may never be built at all.

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The failure of the project, however, did not stop the establishment media from declaring victory. The New York Post told us in December 2012 that “the Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero…opened with great fanfare a year ago.”

Did it really? No. The media was hyping a couple of minor events at a tiny, unmarked mosque in a building that had been extensively damaged in the 9/11 attacks so as to save face after Pamela Geller’s rallies, which I helped out on, marshaled public opinion to beat the mega-mosque project. The response to those rallies far exceeded our expectations, because Americans, aside from Bloomberg largely the insult to the memory of the victims of 9/11 that this mosque represented. 70% of the American people who opposed the Ground Zero Mosque.

And with good reason. Bloomberg no doubt had and still has no idea of the fact, but as The History of Jihad shows, the placement of mosques throughout Islamic history has been an expression of conquest and superiority over non-Muslims. Muslims built the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock on the site of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in order to proclaim Islam’s superiority to Judaism. The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus was built over the Church of St. John the Baptist, and the Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople was converted into a mosque, to express the superiority of Islam over Christianity. Historian Sita Ram Goel has estimated that over 2,000 mosques in India were built on the sites of Hindu temples for the same reason.

But the Ground Zero Mosque wouldn’t have been another example of that Islamic supremacism, would it? After all, the mosque initiative’s initial principal spokesman, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, said that the building of the mosque by the World Trade Center site was intended to make “the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11.” The group behind the Mosque claimed that it was “a project to honor those who were harmed on September 11. It is a project to proclaim our patriotism to this country and to stand side-by-side all men and women of peace.”

And Ground Zero is not a holy site, so the symbolism of Islam conquering and replacing other religions wasn’t there — or was it?

The Twin Towers, after all, were the symbol of America’s economic power. Placing a mosque by the site of their destruction (at the hands of Islamic jihadists) would have symbolized the taming of that power. Abdul Rauf himself placed the blame for 9/11 not on jihadists at all, but on the U.S. and the West, saying that they “must acknowledge the harm they have done to Muslims before terrorism can end.” Statements like that called into question just who the Ground Zero Mosque organizers had in mind when they said that the Mosque was intended to honor “those who were harmed on September 11.”

But Bloomberg was and is oblivious to all this, and to the staggering inappropriateness of placing a shrine celebrating the motivating ideology of the 9/11 attackers right next to their principal target. If the 9/11 hijackers had been white nationalists, would Bloomberg have supported the construction of a KKK meeting hall right next to Ground Zero, since the organizers of the project were proclaiming that their intentions were peace and reconciliation?

No, not all Muslims are terrorists or supported 9/11. But all the hijackers on that terrible day were devout Muslims, acting in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings of warfare against unbelievers. It would have been the height of tone-deafness to put a mosque teaching the same doctrines at Ground Zero. Bloomberg wasn’t being wise, or sensitive, or multicultural when he did his best to push the project through to completion. How fortunate we are that he won’t be President.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 19 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

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tituspullo
tituspullo
4 years ago

mini mike is a jew, right? and he celebrates the muslim conquest of NYC? i cannot fathom the mentality of these rich american jews who enable the slaughter of their people. can anyone out there enlighten me?

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
4 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

It has nothing to do with money. Middle class secular American Jews think the same way as Bloomberg. Their new religion is Progressivism. That’s their new value system.

Rich H
Rich H
4 years ago

Not this Jew. Lock and Load. Soon we will be called upon to protect our freedoms which so many proud patriots have died for.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Rich H

Please educate others. You see what’s coming too….

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Somehow Jews and the Amish in America are like benevolent parasites. Sucking just enough blood to not harm the host.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

It’s real easy to just lump everyone together but that says more about you than the people and groups you know obviously know nothing about.

Hassidic Jews are often mistaken for Amish because both groups dress very plainly in black suits. In fact, Hassidic Jews and most orthodox American Jews are politically conservative and pro-Trumo compared to uber-liberal secular Jews.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago

Political drift, mannerisms and fashion choices aside. Thx 4 not disagreeing they ARE benevolent parasites.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago

Political drift, mannerisms and fashion choices aside. Thx 4 not disagreeing they ARE benevolent parasites.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Rich H

Here’s the deal, Rich H. MANY Christians, mainline Christians, are moslem loving islamophiliacs. The Roman Catholic Church is filled with moslem loving islamophiliacs. And, not just this current pope. Look at how Joan Paul II kissed the queeranne.
It’s easy for everyone to attack Jews, as they don’t have to look into the mirror.
Sane and sensible human beings, whether Buddhist (GO Myanmar GO), Christian, Jewish, even the practitioners of the Religion of Atheism … They hate moslems … ALL moslems.
The others? You cannot blame their religion or ethnic background. Place blame where it belongs. On STUPIDITY and DEATH WISHES.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
4 years ago
Reply to  Rich H

Most Jews have never heard of Aaron Zelman, He died in 2010. Was a fierce advocate of jewish gun ownership and 2A.

“Jews should be the last people on Earth to support ‘gun control”
– Aaron Zelman, founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)

http://jpfo.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S._Zelman

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
4 years ago

I think they are just miserable cowards, terribly afraid of the Muslims.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

Jew in name only, but a solid Demo☪rat.

The Demo☪rats made a deal with the islamists.

The muslims told them that they would not be killed………until last!

patd
patd
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

As long as the kill off the ignorant libturds first!!! Thanks for not disagreeing with me!!!!

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

…just another self-hating Jew like Sanders……it’s an epidemic.

Both of them conveniently ignore the fact that America was formed on Judaeo/Christian principles.

TomSJr
TomSJr
4 years ago

MIKE BLOOMBERG IS AN AMERICAN TRAITOR TO OUR U.S. CONSTITUTION AND REPUBLIC.

ALL Muslims are anti-America because ISLAM is the direct opposite of our Constitutional values.

Suresh
Suresh
4 years ago
Reply to  TomSJr

They are aided by the dumb , ignorant Left/Liberal loons coming out of colleges/schools run by pro-jihadi left/liberal loons

And by the time they realise their stupidity they get assaulted , gang raped or murdered like this couple its too late for them http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/libs-say-evil-is-myth/

Problem is they enable evil while not able to see evil thanks to pro-jihadi left/liberal indoctrination in schools/colleges where real history of islam and America is no longer taught.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

….and when they get raped or assaulted….guess who they blame? President Trump and law enforcement.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  TomSJr

The Ground Zero Mosque Project Is Back
December 16, 2019
By Pamela Geller
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/the_ground_zero_mosque_project_is_back.html

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Hard to believe that there are people who are even considering a sick idea like that want to be the next President.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  TomSJr

The Ground Zero Mosque Project Is Back
December 16, 2019
By Pamela Geller
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/the_ground_zero_mosque_project_is_back.html

Mohammed_Goldberg
Mohammed_Goldberg
4 years ago

Another mosque built at the site of devastation to celebrate a Muslim victory over the infidels. The original name was to be the ‘Cordova House”.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

…not on our watch.

Rlb
Rlb
4 years ago

Liberalism run amok. And, mini Mike suppotrts it. Suprised Mike does not support Bernie. And, the best. Thing Mike did was Stop and Frisk: crime went down. Diblasio supports Bernie. Both are losers.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

…it’s more like with all your money you have a “God” complex. Go back to your island and shut up.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

This guy is one sick puppy disgusting beyond description .

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

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patd
patd
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

AMEN!!!!!

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

That would be like building an Adolf Hitler Memorial Center in Auschwitz.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
4 years ago

Exactly correct , ludicrous that such an idea was even considered that would be like paying homage to the Japs that blew up Pearl Harbor .

Tm.
Tm.
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

We never hear about this anywhere but on this site. Mainstream media silences important news. That’s very sad, and I don’t understand it. The ideology of the left is in error, imho.
Our universities brainwash our kids, again, imho. Multiple points of view should be allowed and encouraged on campuses. After all, our taxes support these umm bastions of of…of learning.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

Crude. Crude. Crude.
Off Topic.
Braggin’ Like a Sumb-tch.
I WAS short. Covered West Texas Intermediate Crude at 32.00 EVEN.
Low 30.00
I don’t care HOW much lower it goes. I just took the next five year’s income to the bank.
Weep you ayrahb moslems … WEEP.
Back to tents around sand dunes.
Ask me “Am I drunk yet?”

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Make sure you know what your grandchildren are being taught…..Our high brow U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case where a Christian refused to recite the Muslim conversion prayer….That was disturbing and should have been a no brainer for Freedom of Religion.

Sweden: Non-Muslim school forces 9-year-olds to pledge allegiance to Allah and write “I belong to Islam”
MAR 8, 2020 2:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

According to the news portal Katerina Magasin, third-graders were forced to confess to Islam and Allah in a letter during a lesson in religious studies. Among other things, the nine-year-olds had to write “I belong to Islam”.

Anamaria von Roteliuc, the mother of a nine-year-old girl, told the magazine the pupils also had to participate in a prayer, while a minaret call was played in the classroom. Furthermore, the children had to colour a mosque on a piece of paper.

When students questioned whether they really had to participate in the activities, the teacher responded that they had to. According to von Roteliuc, who also detailed the ordeal in a Facebook post,
https://www.facebook.com/anamaria.roteliuc/posts/10221393435722209
the teacher threatened her daughter with detention if she refused to participate in the task. The girl initially refused to pledge allegiance to Allah, but had to to write “I belong to Islam” in the end.

“My daughter came home and was completely devastated”, Anamaria said. “She said, Mom, we had Islam yesterday and they forced us to say that we are Muslims. She told me that during the lesson, she jumped out of the classroom crying, ran to the toilet and prayed to God. She has been feeling bad since it happened. I myself am so angry that I’m seething. How can you do this? We are Christians and my children should not be subjected to forced Islamisation at school”.

Söderfors School is not a religious one, and, according to Roteliuc, its teachers do not have a Muslim background. By her own admission, she contacted the headmaster, only to receive a note that the school was working with world religions. According to Roteliuc, this “religious indoctrination” must end….

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/03/sweden-non-muslim-school-forces-9-year-olds-to-pledge-allegiance-to-allah-and-write-i-belong-to-islam
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Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

If this would happen to my grand children I would perhaps be locked up, because that teacher would at least have no teeth left. The Koran would have to be extracted from his back side.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

….don’t leave out the “Ladies” of Isam….just as dangerous…and have no problem strapping a bomb to their child and send them into a crowd.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

….and then there was the middle school girl in West Virginia where the teacher was teaching calligraphy…..making the students write the prayer to be a Muslim…..and lying to them that calligraphy was invented by the Muslims…..CALLIGRAPHY was invented by the Chinese centuries before!
The teacher is either ignorant or a Dhimmi for Islam. Either one is bad.
Her parents took her out of that school.

Wake up, America. Some form of this is being taught in all schools….no matter how subtle. And don’t look for help from the Secretary of Education -Becky Devos….she’s been pretty much MIA since she was appointed. She needs to go!

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

I had never read anything good about her prior to her SOE position. No wonder Jeb loved her. She is a mess.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I believe -if I can recall correctly – she made her fortune in managing wrestlers/high profile matches…. and married well.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

I had never read anything good about her prior to her SOE position. No wonder Jeb loved her. She is a mess.

allie
allie
4 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

I have told young relatives again and again that muslims did not invent Algebra which they have been told wrongly by teachers, the word ” Algebra ” could be Arabic but the actual subject was invented by Diophantus the Greek hundreds of years before the paedophile was even born. I am left to wonder how teachers can get this wrong unless it is a deliberate attempt to attribute something useful to this backward creed.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  allie

It’s shameful how our education has sank to the lowest low. No wonder we are 17th in the world of education.
Keep telling the kids the truth.

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4 years ago

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patd
patd
4 years ago

Just like the POS anti-American muslim did from our WH!!!!

patd
patd
4 years ago

what a FUKING moronic libturd idiot oxygen thief!!!!! Can’t fix STUPID with these libturds!

gfmucci .
gfmucci .
4 years ago

We really have absolutely foolish, ignorant pieces of feces in public office. And Bloomberg without doubt is one of them.

jkarna
jkarna
4 years ago

Another self-loathing Jew. Unfortunately there are many like him in the US. Why can’t they wake up and listen to Pam?

The_Devilbat
The_Devilbat
4 years ago

” a 16-story mega-mosque built on the site of a building that was right next to World Trade Center, and that was extensively damaged in the 9/11 attacks.” What on Earth do you mean by “extensively damaged?” both towers were completely destroyed.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago

What, it wasn’t his sprouting his first pubic hair?

Pantalones
Pantalones
4 years ago

Lol Bloomberg is and will be from now on, a laughingstock????

Verk
Verk
4 years ago

Aiding and abetting the enemy? Hardly behavior worthy of a presidential candidate.

Porter G. Stone
Porter G. Stone
4 years ago

TRIUMVIRATE OF HELL:

BLOOMBERG – SANDERS – SCHUMER

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
4 years ago

All dedicated Kapos. Adolf would have been proud of them.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

Bloomberg Says His Proudest Moment Was When Threw His Support Behind the Ground Zero Mosque

So he wasn’t proud of his kid? He wasn’t proud of his country? But he was proud to support the ones who blew up his city?!

Praise God he is no longer on that election stage. God has a way of dealing with people like him. Won’t come soon enough for me.

Bloomy is a sickening Gonif….just like Sanders.

Richard Canary
Richard Canary
4 years ago

If you understand Islam, it would be clear to you that it is first and foremost SEXIST. Mohammed knew how to attract the ignorant men among his people. He promised them all the sex with women that they could handle in the afterlife, but first they had to deliver whatever Mohammed claimed to be God’s plans on earth.

A “quid pro quo” if ever there was one!

And this is the offer made to infidels to this day. Anyone who favors Islam in any way is aiding and abetting this filthy cornerstone of Islam. And it is the true cornerstone of Islam, make no mistake. How else would a shifty trader in the Middle Eastern deserts convince stupid men to risk and offer up their very lives to support such an inhumane movement?

Now think of modern America, and realize that the same offer exists in the Koran now as it did then. No man who gives two hoots for any woman — his mother, his sister, his wife — will even make friends with a muslim, especially not some filthy Imam, who has the means, the facilities, and the justification of his filthy religion, to buy off even the richest of men on earth, with the Islamic payoff of sexual paradise, now in this life, and the next!

And Mini-Mike Bloomburg is a prime example. He is far worse than a muslim. He has had the exceptional luck to have been born, raised and grown up in a Judeo-Christian culture that honors a God for whom any man can be grateful and thankful.

And he sees himself as gracious and magnanimous for consorting with muslims in their
march toward domination & destruction of our culture and every person within it.

There is no lower trash in human form than men like him and those to whom he bows.

cylde
cylde
4 years ago

His proudest moment is dhimmitude on steroids??? What a waste of a life.

Mathew M
Mathew M
4 years ago

He as so many Jews are hoping they will not be exterminated which bring us to George Soros Which one is he paying off?

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

Idiot!

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

Let’s face facts, folks, and do a little critical analysis. Stop crowing about Bloomberg “wasting” 500 Million on a “failed” campaign. Bloomberg’s fortune is estimated at 70 Billion and growing yearly. He probably gets at least a 12% return on this capital, possibly a lot more. That would be about $10 Billion a year, so 500 Million is about 40 days’ income to Bloomy. (BTW when you fund your own campaign it’s tax-deductible as a business expense) Wha the did convince all of the Commiecrats is tha not only does he have money but he is willing to spend it generously to get what he wants: POTUS. Little doubt the Coomiecrats will have a brokered convention. No doubt they will refuse to nominate Comrade Bernie. So who, I ask, friend, is left? Its Hillary and Bloomy. One will be the Presidential nominee and the other then VPO. Bloomy will then proceed to buy the election.

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
4 years ago

Hey bloomberg, read between the lines———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————and the horse you rode in on.

allie
allie
4 years ago

There was a village in Spain where the muslims bought a site and planned to build a Mosque there, the local villagers took a pig to the site and slaughtered the poor thing. They caught the blood and dripped it all over the site and ended by burying the pig in a marked grave, the building of the Mosque was shelved because pigs blood cannot taint the site of the mosque. Feel sorry for Percy though, but he served an honourable purpose.

Infidel
Infidel
4 years ago

Well, call me a bigot! The scum, that brought the towers down, believed in the same death cult, that all other muslims believe in. To deny this, is insanity. They all follow the perverted child molester, Mohammad. Their book, is nothing more than a supremacy doctrine, where they are the masters, and anyone, who is not a believer, of the perverted child molester, must either pay a tax (jizrah), or be put to death. Their end goal is to rule the Earth, with this cancer.
Prior to 9/11, I didn’t give them much thought. I even knew a few, who seemed like decent guys. My view changed dramatically, on Sept. 11th, 2001. There were some, dancing in the parking lot, of the gas station, they owned. They were passing out cookies,in celebration, of the murder of 3000 innocent people.
They have used our own laws, on the freedom of religion, to mutilate young girls. They are nothing short of a cancer, in America.
Beware of Bloomberg. He has endorsed Biden, who we all know, will not finish his term, should he be elected. Bloomberg will buy his way, to the Vice Presidency, so he can ascend, to be the unelected president, when Biden is declared mentally incompetent, or dies. Bloomberg will destroy America. I think this will set things in motion, for the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Tm.
Tm.
4 years ago

If one cannot see the intention here, then one is either misinformed or lying. Don’t people understand what is meant by this action? Why don’t people read about other cultures?
I knew it was not buried, and that it would come up again.
I blame liberals for this.
Billions laugh at us and wish that we would hurt, and wish for even more than that.
Do not be led to the…
Vote carefully.

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