Mosque investor was terror contributor

Charles Leaf MyFoxNY.com 2 September 2010

MYFOXNY.COM – Fox 5 News reported Thursday that one of the financial backers of the Islamic mosque and cultural center project in Lower Manhattan once contributed to a terror group, although the investor says the contribution was made because he thought he was giving money to a harmless charity.

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No signs at the 911 Ground Zero mega-mosque rally, please…

…FLAGS!

Pamela Geller Atlas Shrugs 9/1/2010

Robert and I respectfully request that those of you who will be attending our protest against the Ground Zero mega mosque bring American flags, not signs. 9 x 12 sized flags. Nothing with big poles: the NYPD won’t allow big poles. Please get the word out now.

We […]

Christopher Hitchens on tolerance, Islam, and the Ground Zero mosque

Althouse 8/24/2010

“But tolerance is one of the first and most awkward questions raised by any examination of Islamism.”

Writes Christopher Hitchens, noting the naivete of the talk of religious tolerance in defense of the mosque near Ground Zero:

As Western Europe has already found to its cost, local Muslim leaders have a habit, once […]

Many more now following mosque controversy–and don’t like it

Rasmussen Reports 8/23/2010

A lot more voters are paying attention to the plans to build a mosque near the Ground Zero site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, and they don’t like the idea.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 85% of U.S. voters say they are now following […]

Imam Rauf: US has more blood on its hands than al Qaeda

David Knowles AOL News 8/23/2010

Hasan Jamali, AFP / Getty Images/ Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a leading figure for the plans to build a mosque near ground zero, addresses guests at a Ramadan meal in Bahrain on Sunday.

(Aug. 23) — In a development sure to further inflame the controversy surrounding the construction […]

‘Ground Zero’ imam on Mideast tour to make Islam ‘Americanized’

Geoff Earle and Charles Hurt NY Post 8/21/2010

WASHINGTON — The imam behind the plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero surfaced yesterday far from the controversy — in Bahrain, where he’s on a taxpayer-funded trip to the Middle East to spread good will.

Appearing in public for the first time in weeks, Imam […]

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