Radical Ground Zero Victory Mosque Imam Thanks Obama For His Support
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 1:56 PM
The radical imam behind the Ground Zero Victory Mosque project, who said the US is worse than Al-Qaeda, thanked Barack Obama today for his support on the project.
The New York Daily News reported:
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf used his taxpayer-funded Mideast tour yesterday to praise President Obama’s qualified support for the mosque near Ground Zero.
“I am grateful to President Barack Obama and all those who expressed support for our project,” Abdul Rauf said at a dinner for student leaders in the Gulf state of Bahrain. the Gulf Daily News in Bahrain reported.
Obama fueled the debate over the mosque with a White House speech defending the right to build the project, but hedged by saying he wouldn’t comment on the “wisdom” of its location.
Abdul Rauf also wryly noted that “We are in the media a lot these days due to one of our initiatives,” a reference to the planned Islamic cultural center including a mosque on Park Place two blocks north of Ground Zero.
The 62-year old Abdul Rauf said the purpose of his $16,000 State Department-sponsored swing through Bahrain, Qatar and Abu Dhabi was to set an example of religious tolerance to the youth of the region.
“We are doing all this for the next generation because when you reach my age you think of what you are leaving behind,” Abdul Rauf said.
77% of mainstream Americans oppose the mosque.
Obama supports it.
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Chisum commented:
77% of mainstream Americans oppose the mosque.
Obama supports it.
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Hope and Deranged!
pamlinson commented:
We know where Barry’s support and sympathy lies. You will know them by their works.
Kenny Solomon commented:
Proof that campaign donations work.
Hey, I’m just sayin’……..
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Kenny Solomon
Tool up, “it” is coming.
If you have to ask what “it” is, you’re too late.
Andrew X commented:
Hey Imam!
Thanks for the helping hand. We’re not entirely sure we need it, but it’s thoughtful of you to provide anyway. Much appreciated.
You the man!
Regards,
The Republican Party, USA
Granny commented:
The Queen of Jihad -
http://townhall.com/columnists/ScottWheeler/2010/08/24/queen_of_jihad
gus commented:
He’s flying about the world on the TAXPAYER.
His trip is being paid for by the STATE DEPARTMENT and the fu@#ing lunatic who runs the STATE DEPT.(my brother is STATE DEPT DIPLOMATIC SECURITY), is claiming the PAKISTANI flooding is caused by global warming.
Granny commented:
About that idea that Obama is a “Christian” – Chuck Norris, writing over at Town Hall (yes, THAT Chuck Norris!) thinks he is a muslim missionary. Today Chuck enlightens us with an interview that Obama did in 2004 about his religion and a few other gems. Like this one -
“the Sermon on the Mount (is) a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application”;
Chuck ends with the statement that he guesses he does not know what “committed” means. I guess Obama doesn’t know what “Christian” means either. LOL
http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2010/08/24/obama_muslim_missionary_part_2
aro5o75 commented:
Yes, his focus is on the next generation. He wants to be assured that they will remain as barbaric and deranged as the current and past generations. At 62 he very much appreciates knowing the ‘jihadist in chief’ will take up the reins.
bg commented:
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i am telling you, this $16,000 oft “quoted” price tag is a LIE.. the Obama’s have paid more to fly their favorite pizza maker to the White House, not to mention their night out on the town, or any of their numerous parties.. so where’s the hidden cost, how much is going towards the Victory Mosque??
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Patman commented:
Alliances. All about alliances.
Can’t wait for November. Tides are certainly going to turn.
Chippy commented:
Mr. Rauf told these twenty students that, “We have been at this location for a long time.”
“The opposition to us has come from the outside of the community. The fact that there has been a misunderstanding shows the need for the project”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/nyregion/24imam.html
Kevin P commented:
May the fleas of 10,000 camels burrow in the crotch of this Imam.
Granny commented:
Just posted this on the previous thread by mistake -
Remember those FEMA Camps everyone was in a roar about some months back? Wellll, maybe they weren’t quite so off the wall. Better take a gander at this -
http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2010/07/27/obamas_us_assassination_program
That’s right – the title is Obama’s US Assassination Program!
bg commented:
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so worth repeating..
American Muslim organization says President Obama is wrong
["As an American Muslim whose family fled persecution in Syria and as someone who has stood in the face of some resistance to the building of many of our houses of worship in the U.S., I fully understand the value of standing for religious freedom in America. But President Obama's statement about the Ground Zero mosque at last night's White House Iftar dinner is the latest example of political correctness gone awry.
The President commented that:
"Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America."
Yes, Mr. President, this is America and you have fundamentally misunderstood the stakes in this discussion and the sentiments of the American people. Instead, you have focused on the very issue that the Islamist propagandists wish you to-- the narrative that Americans somehow need lectures about Islam, Muslims, and religious freedom.
Your message to Americans will be spun on Al Jazeera and by Islamists across the world that President Obama reassured a friendly global Muslim audience at the White House Ramadan dinner that he was going to remind Americans about the principles of religious freedom for Muslims since they seem to be trampling over those principles in the local dispute at Ground Zero in New York.
Mr. President this is not about religious freedom. It is about the importance of the World Trade Center site to the psyche of the American People. It is about a blatant attack on our sovereignty by people whose ideology ultimately demands the elimination of our way of life. While Imam Faisal Rauf may not share their violent tendencies he does seem to share a belief that Islamic structures are a political statement and even Ground Zero should be looked upon through the lens of political Islam and not a solely American one.
As a Muslim desperate to reform his faith, your remarks take us backwards from the day that my faith will come into modernity. I do not stand to eliminate Imam Rauf's religious freedom; I stand to make sure that my children's religious freedom will be determined by the liberty guaranteed in the American Constitution and not by clerics or leaders who are apologists for shar'iah law and will tell me what religious freedom is.
'Park 51', 'The Cordoba House' or whatever they are calling it today should not be built, not because it is not their right to do it - but because it is not right to do it." Mr. President, your involvement in this issue is divisive not uniting. Your follow-up stating that 'you will not speak to the wisdom of the construction of that mosque and center' indicates a passive-aggressive meddling on your part that only marginalizes those Muslim and non-Muslim voices against it while pretending to understand both sides of the debate.]
Thank You & May God Bless & Protect You & Yours Dr. Jasser..
be ashamed GOP, be doubly ashamed DNC, as both parties combined couldn’t (paraphrasing one of our reg posters) wear Dr. Jasser’s jock strap..
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Chippy commented:
Mr. Rauf was speaking in a mosque to twenty students dressed in flowing white robes and headresses held in place by braided Leather bands, fiddled with their blackberrys, drank coffee and fiddled with their beads.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/nyregion/24imam.html
Chippy commented:
This Imam Rauf is telling the students that they are the insiders. The outsiders are the American people. This is where our tax money is going. It’s going to kill us eventually.
bg commented:
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[[AIFD in the Media] “THE BROTHERHOOD” – Documentary by Magdi Abdelhadi, BBC World Service, August 16 and 23, 2010.. 2 Part in depth investigative documentary on the spread of the Muslim Brotherhood in the west. Part 1 looks at its roots in Egypt and Part 2 looks at spread to Europe and the United States. Dr. Jasser’s interview is excerpted in Part 2. Other interviewees included are: Ian Johnson (author), Steve Emerson (IPT), Bilal Kaleem (MAS-Boston), among others. See Associated BBC News Reports below Parts 1 and 2.]
ht Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser..
The Brotherhood (part 1)
Muslim Brotherhood expands westward (part 2)
Muslim Brotherhood: Secret of its success
The Monday Documentary
audio 1
audio 2
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Bill Fabrizio commented:
Did the Imam thank Obama in English or Arabic?
gus commented:
Oh dear no. This man is a NICE TYPE of MUZZTARD, he really is. He is a BRIDGE BUILDER.
Don’t be stupid America.
bg commented:
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Granny @ 3:08 pm #18
first thing that popped into my mind was the following..
Under New American Management Al-Qaida Now Poses Inner Threat
followed closely by:
Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around The U.S.
and several other things as i read
on, such as, and in no specific order..
Obama’s “Consequence Management Response Force”
Ready To Be Deployed Against Americans In October
Obama’s friends planned to kill 25 millions Americans …
amongst other things as well..
Terror czar deserves honorary membership
in the Muslim Brotherhood
[Defeating the ideology of Political Islam (Islamism) needs to be the focal point of the United States efforts at ending Islamist extremism. Yet again we see a highly placed government official unable to identify and discuss the root of the threat. Brennan was more focused, if not obsessed, on appealing to the narrative of victimology that is being perpetuated by well-funded Islamists in the American Muslim communities. His inability to even mention the words "political Islam" speaks volumes on the administrations capability to confront the radicals the United States is increasingly facing.
[..]
“How can we possibly confront Islamist radicalization if the President’s principal advisor on counterterrorism cannot appropriately identify political Islam as the problem?” said Jasser. “Al Qaida is merely one of many tools of militant political Islam. It is the ideology that they adhere
to that we must be at war with and counter frontally in the public sector, because it is at war with us.
As we have seen over the past year, the common thread of theo-political Islam is what drives militants around the world. Mr. Brennan and the President must provide leadership in articulating the real threat and addressing the root cause of Islamist terror. The Muslim Brotherhood
and Islamists can speak for themselves.”]
all i have to say is.. thank you for keeping your
powder dry Militant Conservative et al.. *sigh*
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bg commented:
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The Fox News connection to Ground Zero mosque
posted this the other day..
(more via bg @ 5:15 am #50)
can you hear me yet??
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wtd commented:
Well, Obama did send him home to gloat. I guess that makes sense for this visible thank you. But what the hell is in it for Bloomberg? He’s invited the thug that threatened fellow Muslims who followed their conscience and oppose the radical mega mosque at Ground Zero. to a Bloomberg ‘special’ iftar. Daisy will be there too.
What’$ in it for Bloomie?
Wonder if Bloomie is aware of the meaning of the fatiha (repeated in daily prayers 17 times) denegrating Jews and Christians?
KR commented:
Granny #18,
Obama was awarded the PEACE PRIZE,
so no worries!
/sarc
bg commented:
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wtd @ 4:34 pm #28
they’ll let him live to die another day..
eh, B was a republican before he wasn’t, so what’s to say he thinks much more of being Jewish than he does power?? sorry, but labels themselves these days just doesn’t cut it anymore.. evidently all for one & one for all only counts for something if you’re an Islamist.. else-wise, it seems to be
an everyone for themselves world.. always said “you can take man out of
the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle out of man”.. aka: “you can take Obama out of Islam, but you can’t take Islam out of Obama”..
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Militant Conservative commented:
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, thanks for endorsing our homegrown Imam Barak Hoover Obama. This sure to give him a huge “bump” in the next election cycle. Kenny Soloman, I’m with you on this one “it” is coming and I am still preped and ready to go.
bg commented:
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okay, when are Obama’s Christian Outreach Centers going to be built in Capitals of Middle Eastern States (believe there are 57 of them, right)??
i mean, are they not constructing these Islamist (not Muslim) Centers in order to cross bridges, foster better understandings, and assure tolerance, sensitivity & respect towards one another?? oh wait..
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Sojourner commented:
wtd
August 24th, 2010 | 4:34 pm | #28
What’s in it for Bloomie?
Simply put,wtd, follow the money:
..”Today, there is no one single provider of information that caters to the Islamic finance market. So by Bloomberg being here, we are in the process of building out an Islamic finance product. We are very confident that we can build a product that meets the needs of the market right now.”
“Islamic finance” refers to banking systems and investments that are consistent with Islamic law (Sharia). For instance, Sharia prohibits the payment or receipt of interest on money lent. The rules associated with Sharia finance present significant and profitable business opportunities for men like Mayor Bloomberg.
In short: Churches and Synagogues bad. Sharia Finance and Islamic Victory Mosques good.”
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/why-ny-mayor-bloomberg-supports-ground-zero-mosque/
and.. of course, the dhimmi’s thought of housing for his high rolling friends..we’ll be picking up the tab for the Condo Project being planned within shouting distance of the Victory Mosque..we’re being played like a fine violin by Bloomberg et al.:
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/08/15/feds-to-guarantee-million-dollar-condos-in-manhattan/
sjjjd commented:
Look, obama has a new friend.
Opus #6 commented:
bg, Dr. Jasser’s essay was amazing. Thank you for posting, I may repost it elsewhere.
I, too, am grateful for patriots like you, and Militant Conservative and the others here.
bg commented:
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Sojourner @ 5:34 pm #33
thanks for the reminders, and connecting both to Bloomberg..
America: A Sharia-Compliant State
[For America to score even higher on the „Islamic‟ or „Shariah Compliance‟ scale, America would need to do two things: invite the voices of all religions to join the dialogue in shaping the nation‟s practical life, and allow religious communities more leeway to judge among themselves according to their own laws”]
“I think it should be rebuilt. It’s long overdue,” he said Wednesday.
“The real question is why is the Port Authority trying to renege?”
gee, i wonder where the new victory mosque will be built??
those damn Greek Orthodox Christians..
hijacking planes full of men women & children, then flying them into the WTC murdering hundreds of innocent people from around the globe.. then they expect US to support their “victory church” from which they have announced the intention of proselytizing the global community via informing the world America is now officially being transitioned into a Greek Orthodox Nation, oh wait..
Port Authority Now Accepts Dubai Deal
[A day after two United States senators called the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey greedy and obstructionist, the agency signed off on a deal that would let DP World, a Dubai-based port operator, sell its leases to A.I.G. Global Investment Group.]
the truth will come out, and all of you Obama
bend overs are going to get you know what..
re: Feds to Guarantee Million Dollar Condos in Manhattan
eh, once the world is “uncluttered”, they will be living the lives
only Earthbound gods dare dream of.. then it will blow up!!
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bg commented:
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Opus #6 @ 7:23 pm #35
oh thank you, and you’re quite welcome, right back at ya..
i heart Dr. Jasser, and truly wish he were president, then i could probably sleep at night knowing that once again we had a CIC who was looking out for US vs THEM..
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Stanley commented:
“the Sermon on the Mount (is) a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application”;
Silly man, He is the Defense Department.
bg commented:
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A Patriotic Muslim’s Warning on Ground Zero Mosque
[“The reality is that many of us have never said their rights should be infringed in any way but rather that we pray that a light will finally go
on in their heads which tells them that ‘this ostentatious $100 million Islamic center should be built elsewhere and not in a place that casts a shadow upon the graves of thousands of Americans’ — still an open raw wound for most Americans,” Dr. Jasser explains.
Jasser also expresses deep concern that the organization funding the mosque, led by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, has refused to exclude foreign funding from filling its coffers. Such financial transactions immediately offer the opportunity for foreign Islamists and their sympathizers to preach their version of political Islam and sharia, he warns, and present
a very significant threat to national security.
“I cannot see genuine Muslim reform happening on the dime of foreign Islamist interests,” Jasser says. “Make no mistake, this Islamic center is not a spiritual statement but a global political one in the name of Islam. … Every group I have been directly involved with in building mosques and Islamic projects in the U.S. have rejected foreign funds entirely because
of the ideological hypocrisies and Islamism that comes with them.”
Dr. Jasser’s only contact with Imam Rauf has been indirectly. Rauf penned a Huffington Post article admonishing anyone who thought sharia was incompatible with the Declaration of Independence, and Jasser responded with a commentary at HuffPo telling him that Muslims need to be “getting real with Shar’iah.” Rauf’s opinion that America must embrace sharia rather than fear it belies the true reality of sharia as implemented by Muslim majorities, Jasser explains, and demonstrates an intense denial or deception on his part of the innumerable female, non-Muslim, “liberty-minded Muslim,” and minority victims of sharia law.
[..]
“Don’t let the Islamists set the agenda,” Dr. Jasser says. “Yes, we will not let up against their agenda. But that’s defense. We need to generate an offense to preempt the Islamists within Muslim communities domestically and abroad.]
more @ link..
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Dean Jameson commented:
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Obama, Michelle & Pelosi christen yet another mosque: http://community.whptv.com/forums/permalink/4388422/4389862/ShowThread.aspx#4389862
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bg commented:
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Dean Jameson @ 8:09 pm #40
that’s funny, however, this is not..
Obama Uses Our Money to Build Mosques
[We are accustomed to religious intolerance from the Progressive Left. Judeo-Christian prayer has been banned from many places in the public square, including school events, classrooms, and even the steps of our Supreme Court building.
The Ten Commandments have been forcibly removed from courthouses and other public buildings. Crosses have been covered, taken down, and even stolen. There have been efforts to remove Christian Crosses and Stars of David from military and other cemeteries. Such actions have been taken because some have complained that Christian and Jewish religious symbols, and especially the Ten Commandments, are offensive to them.
Barack Obama has denied that we are a Christian nation and even demanded the Christian symbol “IHS” be covered when he spoke at Georgetown University. However, Obama has been using taxpayer dollars to build and refurbish mosques. These are mosques that may be used to recruit and train terrorists.
[..]
Americans also may be surprised to learn that the United States has been an active participant in mosque construction projects overseas. In April, U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania Alfonso E. Lenhardt helped cut the ribbon at the 12th-century Kizimkazi Mosque, which was refurbished with assistance from the United States under a program to preserve culturally significant buildings. The U.S. government also helped save the Amr Ebn El Aas Mosque in Cairo, which dates back to 642. The mosque’s namesake was the Muslim conqueror of Christian Egypt, who built the structure on the site where he had pitched his tent before doing battle with the country’s Byzantine rulers. For those who think the Ground Zero Mosque is an example of “Muslim triumphalism” glorifying conquest, the Amr Ebn El Aas Mosque is an example of such a monument – and one paid for with U.S. taxpayer funds.
The mosques being rebuilt by the United States are used for religious worship, which raises important First Amendment questions. U.S. taxpayer money should not be used to preserve and promote Islam, even abroad.]
is it even Constitutional?? oh wait.. *sigh*
Why are the ACLU, atheists, and others from the Progressive Left not demanding that Obama stop his funding and promoting of Islam? Why are we not seeing outrage from the Left that exceeds the dismay and anger from the Right?]
good questions.. is not Obama interfering
with the “separation of mosque & state”??
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wtd commented:
NOW THIS!
So who really was speaking on that historic day of June 4th 2009 in Egypt? President Obama or the Imam of the proposed Ground Zero Mosque, Feisal Abdul Rauf?
The Shoebat Foundation has obtained a shocking audio recording of Rauf’s own voice boasting in Arabic that Obama’s historic speech in Cairo was provided by the Imam’s work with the Cordova Initiative in what the Imam called “The Blue Print” which, according to him, was the solution to the Islamic-American divide. Rauf claimed that Chapter 6 of the Imam’s work engineered by the Cordova Initiative was the construct for the entire speech.
Read more:
Link to additional text plus link to Imam Rauf’s audio admission
Sojourner commented:
bg
August 24th, 2010 | 8:03 pm | #39
from my file under ‘could be good news?’:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=195441
..{and we know who runs the Foggy Bottom}
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/images/Hillary%20Clinton.jpg
bg commented:
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just in case it doesn’t go through..
re: bg @ 10:24 am #44 in 3 parts:
Sojourner @ 9:35 pm #43
re: [‘could be good news?’]
Obama had already confirmed his DUAL
CITIZENSHIP on his web site long ago..
(of course the admission article’s have all more or less been sucked up
by Obama’s black hole machine, but not all, well, not so far anyways..]
where was the MSM & talking head Oboto matics??
crickets then, crickets now, and not only that.. but they have & they
will make anyone who tries to expose this fraud out to be koo-koo..
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bg commented:
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re: bg @ 10:43 am #45
besides, the DUAL CITIZENSHIP i’m most concerned with is his INDONESIAN CITIZENSHIP, which always gets drowned out
via his BC or whatever else they can use to distract US from the truth..
Barry Soetoro .. Indonesian citizen .. religion .. Islam
Indonesians see Obama .. as a crusader for the cause of Islam.
“The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming The American Dream”
Indonesian translation: Jihad: From Jakarta To The Whitehouse
Islamists always say/write one thing in English targeted for one
audience, quite another in their Translations targeted for others..
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bg commented:
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re: bg @ 10:45 am #46
another fine example:
Who Is Behind It?
by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
[The Imam behind the controversial mosque at Ground Zero dreams of Islamizing United States, as exposed in his book, which has two titles:
one in English, and one in Arabic.
In the U.S., his book is called, 'What's Right
with America Is What's right with Islam."
The same book, published in Arabic, bears the title, "The Call from the WTC Rubble: Islamic Da'wah {Proseletism} from the Heart of America Post-9/11."
Here we get exactly the Imam, who is assigned
to "spread Islam right from the WTC rubble."]
no comment on second link..
, oops!!
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