New York 1 is reporting that the terror-tied Imam Rauf and the waiter-cum-developer Sharif El Gamal dismissed out of hand Governor Paterson's offer to move the mosque. The stealth jihadists showed the same contempt and callousness for Paterson's offer as they have shown towards the pain, humiliation and grief expressed by the 911 families and all Americans who are opposed to a 15-story mega mosque at the sacred site of Ground Zero.
"Only the Jews could have perpetrated the 911 attack....If Americans only know it was the Jews' fault, they would have done to Jews what Hitler did"* (a speaker at Feisal tied ICCNY- "96th Street Mosque")
Here's more ugly dirt on radical Imam Rauf; Glen Beck on Imam Rauf's nefarious ties:
This is the trip you paid for with your tax dollars. More here...... hat tip ArmarosIn the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the “96th Street mosque,” as ICCNY is typically known, became notorious for a more outspoken participant in its work. Its imam was another Egyptian, Muhammad Gamei’a. Shortly after 9/11, Gamei’a disappeared, resurfacing in Egypt on October 4, 2001, where he told an Egyptian website, regarding 9/11, “The Jews were behind these ugly acts, while we, the Arabs, were innocent. . . . If it became known to the American people, they would have done to the Jews what Hitler did!” Muhammad Gamei’
According to a 2004 obituary for Rauf’s father, Tan Sri Dr. Muhammad Abdul Rauf, an Egyptian who lived in Malaysia but who died in the U.S., Feisal Abdul Rauf is the trustee of land belonging to his father next to ICCNY. When his father died, Rauf first advanced his scheme for an “Islamic and cultural center which will have a mosque, school and a residential tower.” The plan then was to site it at the 96th Street location. The choice to site it two blocks from Ground Zero came later.
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the “96th Street mosque,” as ICCNY is typically known, became notorious for a more outspoken participant in its work. Its imam was another Egyptian, Muhammad Gamei’a. Shortly after 9/11, Gamei'a disappeared, resurfacing in Egypt on October 4, 2001, where he told an Egyptian website, regarding 9/11, “The Jews were behind these ugly acts, while we, the Arabs, were innocent. . . . If it became known to the American people, they would have done to the Jews what Hitler did!”
And then there is this:
KUALA LUMPUR // Many countries are Islamic, but some may be more Islamic than others. Now moves are afoot to rate nations according to how closely they adhere to the principles of Islam.
The Shariah Index Project is led by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a New York-based cleric who heads the Cordoba Initiative, a multinational project to improve relations between Muslim countries and the West.
He announced it on Sunday, on the final day of the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality conference in Malaysia.
The project has been in the works since 2006, with researchers quietly holding behind-the-scenes meetings with scholars, activists and government officials.
“We have been soliciting the opinion of scholars throughout the Muslim world, asking them what defines an Islamic state, from the point of view of Islamic law,” he said.
“What are the principles that make a state Islamic? We can say among them is justice, protection of religion and minorities and elimination of poverty, and so on.”
The Cordoba Initiative, which co-sponsored the Wise conference, is a non-profit organisation with offices in New York and Kuala Lumpur. It is funded by the Malaysian government and other sources in both western and Muslim countries.
So far the project has produced a book of scholarly essays on the concept of measuring a nation’s “Islamicity”, providing a theoretical foundation for the index.
