[ April 25, 2024 ]
While New York’s Mayor Cuomo keeps all New Yorkers under house arrest …..
The mosque was commended by news outlets for its efforts to “keep the faith” during the pandemic, while churchgoers in many states have been criticized for driving to church parking lots for drive-in services.
Story continues below advertisement
New York mosque still open for daily prayers while churches across the country face mandatory shutdowns
That doesn’t seem right
By Phil Shiver, Blaze, April 20, 2020:
A mosque in New York is reportedly still open for daily prayers amid the coronavirus pandemic that has forced Christian churches across the country to close their doors and cancel their in-person gatherings.
While churchgoers in many states have been criticized and even punished for continuing to gather, that same level of scrutiny has apparently not been leveled at the Mosque of Jesus, Son of Mary in Syracuse, New York.
What are the details?Despite the state’s executive order, which broadly bans all “non-essential gatherings of individuals of any size for any reason,” neighborhood Muslims are still allowed gather together in the mosque’s prayer room for calls to prayer throughout the week.
“About 10 worshippers in masks are allowed in at a time, though rarely do that many show up. They stand far apart from each other as they follow a prayer leader standing on a plastic-covered prayer rug,” a Syracuse.com report notes. (Though in a video of one of the prayers, it appears that the worshippers are not at least 6 feet away, as the Centers for Disease Control recommends).
While it should be noted that the mosque has gone to great lengths to limit attendees’ exposure to the virus by covering the prayer room in plastic and installing a special ventilation system, it is unclear as to how that exempts the mosque from the government mandate.
Yet instead of facing criticism for continuing to gather, the mosque was commended by the news outlet for its efforts to “keep the faith” during the pandemic, especially as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan approaches.
According to the report, Irfan Elahi, an asbestos abatement expert who worships at the mosque, said that when the outbreak started, mosque leaders in the area were worried that Muslims would panic if daily prayers were cancelled.
What’s the background?Over the past few weeks, churchgoers in many states have been prohibited from gathering and, in many cases, have been punished for doing so despite government orders.
In Mississippi, some churchgoers received $500 fines for sitting in their vehicles in a church parking lot listening to a radio broadcast of the service. In Kentucky, nails were allegedly scattered at the parking lot entrances to prevent people from attending the Easter service. A northern California county even outlawed singing during church livestreams unless people are in a home.
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio threatened to “permanently” shut down churches and synagogues if they refused to comply with the government’s shelter-in-place order.
New York state, where the mosque is located, has been the hardest hit by the COVID-19 outbreak, with over 130,000 confirmed cases and more than 14,000 deaths reported as of Monday, according to the New York Times.
The Truth Must be Told
Your contribution supports independent journalism
Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.
Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.
Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.
Please contribute here.
or
Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.
Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding.Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds. They are disappearing us. But we are here.
Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival. Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.
Follow Pamela Geller on Gettr. I am there. click here.
Follow Pamela Geller on Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. It's open and free.
Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.
Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.
If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.
52 Comments
4 years ago
Remember Hollywood signing:
“Imagine there’s no countries…
…And no religion, too”
yeah, except Islam.
4 years ago
Reply to
TD
TD: The Muslims are dedicated to eradicating all other religions and political systems and making Islam the only religion on earth…… and are well on their way to accomplishing just that.
Thinking, sane, rational people (atheists, humanists, secularists, anti-theists, etc.) would like to see all religions fade away into the past with the ignorance that spawned them.
A world in which Islam is the only religion.
Or no religions at all.
Your choice.
Most people believe, or claim to, that all religions are basically the same; that they are all good, beneficial, and necessary……when nothing could be further from the truth.
All religions deffer from one another according to their individual dogmas.
But there are some thing that they all have in common:
All religions are systems of belief that treat lies as truth, myths as reality, and use imaginary rewards (an afterlife, heaven, salvation) and punishments (hell, eternal damnation, Original Sin) to terrorize, control, and enslave people while having the audacity to ask those people for money on a regular basis.
Such is no different than it would have been if the Nazis had asked the Jews to pay for their train ride to the death camps.
The idiocy and insanity of religion is as glaringly evident as a Las Vegas neon sign blinking against the blackness of a moonless midnight sky.
But millions of people willingly adhere to and follow religions because, unfortunately, most humans are willing to accept lies and myths, no matter how ridiculous or obvious, in order to avoid facing unpleasant truths and reality.
It’s time we all grew up.
4 years ago
Reply to
Merlinever
But what if you’re wrong? Wrong about God; wrong about Jesus; wrong about life after death? You could be condemning yourself to an eternity of separation from your Creator and all your family who die in friendship with God. Pretty risky. Ask yourself -why even now in the 21st century are there more Christian martyrs than in ancient Rome? Christians refusing conversion to Islam are killed violently all over the world every day.
In the US, Christians don’t face death but its like death by a thousand cuts with the relentless harassment of local governments at the behest of the LGBTQ activists, and derision from people like you. I don’t know anybody who would endure that for a fairy-tale or false illusion. But they would gladly for God. So I would challenge you and your fellow atheists and agnostics to say this prayer every day: “God, show me that you exist. ” There’s literally nothing to lose and perhaps heavenly eternity to gain. Peace
4 years ago
Reply to
Merlinever
I’ll see your Carl Sagan quote and raise you one Isaac Newton:
Numero pondere et mensura Deus omnia condidit.
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
4 years ago
isn’t this like a “Travel ban” that favors only one religion?
the irony.
4 years ago
Reply to
TD
We dont call it A travel ban, we call it the muslim ban. Since muslims commit most of the terrorism. In G-d I trust.
4 years ago
Reply to
Oren Wysocki
Why do you claim to trust in a God for whom there is not, nor has there ever been, any proof or evidence at all?
The Muslims believe that their mythical god, Allah, created everything.
The Christians believe that their mythical God created everything.
There is no difference; both are equally wrong
4 years ago
Reply to
Merlinever
CREATION proves it at every glance around you! Open your eyes! And if you know the voices of YOUR loved ones without seeing them, then know this: Those of us who have heard Yahweh’s (God’s) voice, know it is Him – it is UNMISTAKABLE!!
4 years ago
Reply to
Merlinever
Believing that A magically appearing big bang ball of mass spontaneously appeared and not calling it SUPER – NATURAL is less logical than defining that which created existence as outside of the rules of logic, and cause and effect. Recognizing that there must be A first thing to creation merely extends logic to its farthest potential. Recognizing that the first thing to ever exist must have had limitless power to create all that was, it must have had free will to create itself when no cause and effect exists, and therefore its definition is A living creator, of infinite power, that created all that is, is obviously the description of G-d, is just being reasonable. In G-d I trust.
Even if the big bang or G-d always existed, (which He did) is still an example of A super natural aspect of creation.
4 years ago
Reply to
Oren Wysocki
Also your oversimplifying things, there are multiple reasons people go to war, both secular and those aware of G-d.
4 years ago
Reply to
Merlinever
If religion poisons everything then what is Hitchens excuse for atheist Communism?
4 years ago
The United States is being turned into the all-too-typical islamic religious apartheid state yet rotten, immoral, degenerates still continue to lecture me about “good”, “secular” muslums. F’ing bunch of rotters…
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
If you haven’t already, please read the following excellent books:
1.) Stealth Jihad.
2.) Modern Day Trojan Horse; The Islamic Doctrine of immigration.
3.) The Mosque Exposed.
4.) Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America.
4 years ago
Fine – those attending mosques are risking their lives. Whist those who cannot visit churches, synagogues, etc., may yet survive.
4 years ago
Who didn’t predict this?
Christians going to a DRIVE IN church service in their cars, spaced apart were being fined and harrassed. They want Jews and Christians silenced and ideally gone. Islam is the temporary replacement because Muslims hate Christians and Jews.
4 years ago
Allah only protects the True Believers …….. all others are 50 50 at best !!
4 years ago
Reply to
Anthony Silvio
Yup, Satan protects his own. But they sure won’t be protected when they stand before Almighty God on Judgment Day. PRAY for them!!
4 years ago
SUBMIT TO ISLAM, YOU INFIDEL DOGS. -Mohadaham PBUH
4 years ago
Reply to
FormerlyNicab
Health tips from Allah courtesy of MohamMAD.
http://www.debatingislam.com/uploads/4/2/5/3/42536761/95674_orig.jpg
4 years ago
Reply to
FormerlyNicab
R U a former muslum? If so you have my respect for re-joining humanity!
4 years ago
The Democrat Party uses the Mohammedans as a proxy army. They know the Mohammedans will gladly die spreading a contagious disease in the land they intend to conquer. Mohammedans blow themselves up to kill a few Kafirs, so they’ll gladly infect themselves and spread a disease to kill many Kafirs. They make the perfect proxy army and the perfect patsy for something nasty.
This virus was designed to scare us into voting by mail, and that won’t happen unless the virus is still a threat. The media that is pushing this as a hoax right now will be pushing it as a serious threat to voters if they can get a second wave of infections going. Protesters and Muslims are their excuses for a second wave of infections. The Democrats favor Muslims because they hate us, not because they love the Muslims.They can’t push voting by mail in the fall for something that proves to be a hoax. The election was a long way off from the start of the problem here, giving a lot of time to prove it a hoax if that’s what it really is, so it was never a hoax. The damage was reduced by early and aggressive mitigation. They have to bring it back as a serious threat again by spreading a real virus or they’ll never scare us into voting by mail in the fall. Expect more virus problems in Democrat run states (that they have to win) so they can order voting by mail in the name of safety.
When Blasio threatens to “permanently” shut down churches and synagogues if
they refused to comply with the government’s shelter-in-place order, he’s trying to provoke a massive protest, and the reason is to spread the virus and blame the protestors. They MUST get back in the WH at any cost to anyone, and voting by mail is the only way they can take the WH. A second wave of infections is the only way to scare people into voting by mail.
The Democrats and MSM were saying President Trump didn’t do enough to stop the virus from getting here, and they went hard on mitigation to prevent a body count (dodge their own smear campaign). If it was a hoax they could have proven President Trump a liar by defying the mitigation policies and letting it rip across their own states…but they didn’t because they knew it wasn’t a hoax. They knew they would be responsible for their own body count because President Trump didn’t take over everything as they expected him to. Now they need the body count again, to scare people into voting by mail, and they need to blame anyone for the body count except Democrats.
4 years ago
Reply to
spfoam1
The Dem0rats (and Labour in the UK) might think they’re using the muslums but I wonder if isn’t a case of the tail wagging the dog?
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Islam invaded Europe, brutally, and took a million slaves. Islam was waving Korans and attacking trade ships of the original colonies, before the USA was even born. Europe and the USA knew what Islam was before it was whitewashed and repainted as harmless. That whitewashing started shortly after oil was discovered in the USA and refined into a fuel. That whitewashing started at the same time in Europe and in the USA, and that points to the same malevolent hand in the background, using a known mortal enemy as a proxy army in both places. That malevolent hand is the European controlled central bank collective. They knew exactly how Islam would behave, and they knew it would look like Islam “invaded” and slowly took over because that’s what it does, but the invasion was by invitation.
4 years ago
DEMOCRATS/LIBERALS are turning this usa into a 3rd world country and will only allow a very evil violent religion as they remove all others
4 years ago
Muslims will be fine!
Fake Allah knows best!
4 years ago
This just proves the Muslims’ God is their own ego. What self-respecting creator of the universe would want these mongrels praying to him 5 times a day? If I was a god I’d pull a Thanos, snap my fingers and make them all disappear.
4 years ago
As per usual, Death Cult invaders in Western nations always get a pass.
4 years ago
Reply to
GonadTheRuffian
And it has BEEN so, ever since 9/11 !! That’s why ALL Muslims should have been rounded up by U.S. Martials, and deported!! Not bowed down to like filthy Barry Soetoro did!!
4 years ago
Reply to
Dorrie_
You are so right! Instead they are still pouring into the West at the beck and call of their Globalist masters and our treacherous leaders. We are running out of time to act, yet the “Progressives” still declare them to be a “religion of peace”, instead of the Death Cult that 1400 years of history quite clearly demonstrates they are. Our children are in for a very violent, terrifying future.
4 years ago
Reply to
GonadTheRuffian
I have no children or grand children, but if YOU do, train them up to beware, but be kind. I believe we’re looking at the end of the U.S. as we’ve known it all our lives. ALL due to the way the Democrats have worked so hard to destroy it so they can blame Trump. And in some awful cases, Trump played into their hands.
Shabbat Shalom!
4 years ago
If you want to know the way to Heaven, find out whom the world is persecuting most.
The allah of islam is satan.
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:16-17
4 years ago
Expecting a great ramadan bombathon!
4 years ago
The protected group and the future masters of the US. New York is one of the most anti-freedom states in the nation, so bans on religious gatherings are to be expected but exceptions will be made for the backward political cult of the devil.
4 years ago
Shameful of these extreme Left-Wing Liberal democrats!!
The New York Governor and the mayor of New York city are Extreme Left-Wing Liberal democrats and muslim brotherhood members and Sympathizers!!
The False Paganism Occult -Ideology of islam is not a religion period!!
The False Pagan moon god allah is not a god of Abraham / Isaac and Jacob!!
Only Judaism and Christianity is RIGHT for for SAME ONE GOD HEAVENLY!!
I am a Devout Christian Conservative Republican Patriot in our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America and I STAND with the Holy Land of Israel-Yisrael Forevermore!!
Love Always and Shalom ( Peace ), YSIC o/
Kristi Ann
4 years ago
Reply to
Kristi17
Someone should tell New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (his alias, not his real name) the truth about how Muslims feel about non-Muslim sympathizers.
3 years ago
Reply to
Merlinever
I can agree with you on this post. Read the eye witnessed Gospels about Jesus Christ, His miracles and His teachings. Four different people testifying to Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Muhammad had NO witnesses to his claimed revelations and performed no miracles.
4 years ago
If you believe that muslims will one day not be violent, hateful of Jews and non muslims, and not malicious towards them, then you can believe that. But how does that permit you to demand that Jews in Israel and non muslims live with muslims, and take in more muslims that are refugees?
The current position of the regime in charge is neither nature nor nurture, because with either one we should have the right to defend ourselves from it. The policy voted for by the left is that muslims are above the law, and cannot be criticized. In G-d I trust.
4 years ago
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio threatened to “permanently” shut down churches and synagogues if they refused to comply with the government’s shelter-in-place order.
So will de Blabbio be sending in NYC’s finest to bust heads, or what ?!?!?!
4 years ago
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio threatened to “permanently” shut down churches and synagogues if they refused to comply with the government’s shelter-in-place order.
So will de Blabbio be sending in NYC’s finest to bust heads, or what ?!?!?!
4 years ago
Communists and Islamists, what a love affair De blasio has with Islam. That skunk.
4 years ago
That mosques are still open and churches are under mandatory shutdowns is cause for celebration, not despair.
The more Muslims crowding into mosques, the more Muslims will get the COVID-19.
The more Muslims get the COVID-19, the more Muslims will die.
The More Muslims that die, the fewer of them there will be and the safer and more free the non-Muslim world and civilization will be.
4 years ago
AG Barr said yesterday that SCOTUS agreed that ALL Americans are allowed to be in their churches – in person. We’ll see if the states allow that!
4 years ago
Another story never to be shared on the evening news, especially, fake news outlets. We knew there would be a different standard applied than for that of Christians and believing Jews.
4 years ago
Islam is the good kind of religion. Christianity is the bad kind. That’s why it’s a good thing that there was no gathering of Christians on Easter. Islam, however, is no problem whatsoever. This was determined by extensive modeling by top people – Top People!
