Ground Zero Mosque Group Replaces Imam Rauf
- Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:18pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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NEW YORK (AP) — The organization planning to build an Islamic community center near the World Trade Center said the imam who has been the public face of the project, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, will be playing a reduced role in the facility.
The nonprofit group Park51 announced Friday that it had named a new imam to help lead religious programing so that Rauf could focus on other initiatives.
Rauf announced late this fall that he would be starting a global movement that would fight extremism and promote better relations between people of different faiths and cultures. He is set to start a national speaking tour Saturday in Detroit.
Rauf will remain on the Islamic center’s board, Park51 said in a statement, but the group needed someone who could be more focused on the day-to-day business of building a local congregation.
“Due to the fact that Imam Feisal is focusing most of his energies and passion on launching this new and separate initiative, it is important that the needs of Park51, the Islamic community center in lower Manhattan, take precedence,” the group said.
The group said that while his vision is “truly exceptional, our community in lower Manhattan is local. Our focus is and must remain the residents of lower Manhattan and the Muslim American community in the greater New York area.”
The backers of the community center and mosque are planning on replacing a defunct clothing store two blocks from ground zero with a 13- to 16-story building that would hold athletic facilities, a day care center, art galleries, an auditorium for cultural events, a 9/11 memorial and a prayer space with room for a congregation of about 1,000.
Critics have assailed the project as insensitive, saying it is improper for a Muslim institution to be located so close to the site of an attack by Islamic extremists.
The group named another New York City imam, Abdullah Adhami, as its senior adviser.
Adhami was born in Washington, D.C., and earned an architecture degree from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He has already performed guest lectures at the site of the planned center, and has had a presence in lower Manhattan since the early 1990s.
Park51, which is controlled by the Manhattan real estate investor who owns the site of the planned center, Sharif El-Gamal, said Adhami would be one of several imams who would eventually be picked to coordinate religious services in the building.
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Comments (93)
VanGrungy
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:43pmMoses: not a muslim
Report Post »Jesus: not a muslim
islam: not Abrahamic because it is based on mohammad’s lies
jmgair
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:40pmSo this old Imam is starting his Global speaking tour right here in Detroit ?? Hey, wait a minute, isn’t Detroit the city that has many communities that have been taken over by Muslims and not even the cops will go there ? Ya, that is the ticket. This ground zero project was called a Mosque then a Community Center for all religions, then a multi cultural center with a pool so who knows waht they will be calling it next ??
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:36pmOh, well isn’t this nice of him. He’s starting a new organization. He’s making a lateral move. Just like the IAP morphed into sugar-coated CAIR and ACORN splintered and morphed into smaller groups. Same people, different organization. Just as the Progressives changed their name to Liberals, and when Liberals wasn’t working for them they changed Liberals back to Progressives again.
Lovely.
When they can’t fool you they morph into something else with a different face. Only underneath they’re the same deceptive entities that are bringing Sharia and Jihad to America and infiltrating all our government organizations and schools and inciting our children to violence for an ideology called Islamofascism where they are ordered by their Constitution, the Quran, to kill the infidel.
Sounds great to me.
Your endgame is the same, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, and it‘s all in the Quran and in your Muslim Brotherhood’s Plan for America. To replace our Republic and our U.S. Constitution with your Sharia and Islam. Because for you the Mosque is the State, the Quran is your Constitution and Jihad is your way.
It’s in the Hamas Charter, isn’t it? You’ve never renounced Hamas have you, Imam Rauf?
Watch this video to familiarize yourself with the organizations that this Imam and his cohorts have set up in America. It will blow your mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP-czMu73uU
And here‘s the Muslim Brotherhood’s Plan for America that was uncovered by the FBI:
http://bigpeace.com/teamb/2010/10/26/fbi-captured-muslim-brotherhoods-strategic-plan/
If you are concerned about the America that your children and grandchildren will be living in if their plans for us aren’t stopped join us at the ADL facebook page and start doing something about it now, because tomorrow might be too late. Here’s the link:
http://www.facebook.com/AmericanDefenceLeague
Report Post »wtd
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 9:09pmExcellent links. Thank you.
Report Post »JJBlazeReader
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:06pm.
Changing Imams meaning nothing.
The mosque needs to be moved away from the location where it is to be built. No one is against a mosque being built just “where” it is being built.
They insist on this location despite the pain and anguish it is causing.
This project is causing divisiveness, not healing just the opposite of what they proclaim.
Report Post »liriadavila
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:23pmYou’re right!!
Report Post »ConservativeAaron
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:37pmagreed!! a no-non sense, well educated woman in the true motives of islam and their shariah, jihad etc.I love listening to her and her admonitions.
Report Post »ConservativeAaron
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:38pmsorry, ignore that last post, it was misplaced. agreed though, well said here on divisiveness!!
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:05pmBill Maher said he prefers people who think with their heads not their hands. Wonder how he feels about those who think on their knees?
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:25pmLike Monica?
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:01pm*
Report Post »Now that he has been trained in the ways of the Alinsky – He will surely become Obama’s “islamic outreach and cultural understanding” Czar
texasfarmer
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:59pmCultural center for the advancement of Sharia law, fund raising for Hamas. Bomb making 101 anyone?
Report Post »freedumb1
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:56pmground0mosque.com
Report Post »nopark51.com
noparking51.com
nomosque51.com
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Howard_Roark
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:54pmThey are just changing the color of the lipstick on this pig. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Report Post »mcpbob
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:54pmTOO late… AND, does’nt make a difference, because the PARK51 who originally called themselves teh Cordoba project are out right racists
Report Post »tompaineknowsthescore
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 9:14pmexplain?
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:51pmBrigitte Gabriel is a fantastic go-to person for this subject,to be sure. If you don’t know who she is, google her. Brilliant, passionate lady!
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:23pmI agree. She is an outspoken opponent of islamic radicalism and a fine looking lady.
Report Post »alice
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:51pmWatch the other hand folks…Keep a close watch out.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:48pmSo that’s what our tax dollars went to when we sent him to the middle east to make plans.
Report Post »wampanoag
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:47pmIt is all a fraud. The building was allegedly sold for $5 million to the Islamists while the landowner rejected and earlier bid of $15 million by another buyer. Obviously this looks like a crooked deal where at least $10 million of dollars is unreported to the IRS and the city of NY as to avoid capital gain and other taxes. I hope the IRS will look into this deal.
Report Post »ReadTheBibleOnceAYear
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:44pmIn previous reports researched by the Walid Shoebat Foundation, it was revealed that Imam Rauf has made statements in the Arabic language – while appearing on Arabic media outlets – that completely contradict his moderate tone when speaking english, exposing him as a direct supporter of terrorism, both financially and verbally.
Report Post »http://www.shoebat.com/documents/911Imam.php
ConservativeAaron
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:30pmthis is absolutely frightening!!
Report Post »For my Liberty!
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 1:19amTHAT is because, according to their Quran, They are to LIE, LIE, LIE to achieve their Goal—WHICH is to make the WHOLE world Muslim. Those that point to the FIRST part of that book and quote peace are PURPOSELY doing so KNOWING that the BACK of the book is what they are TOLD to pay attention to and FOLLOW. THIS part tells them to kill infidels and use Jihad…..
Report Post »Helldogger
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:40pmThat mess down town Manhatten was cleaned up by Union construction workers, primarily Local 40 & 361 Ironworkers. This mosque will have to be built by those same hands. Do you really think the democRAT party really has that much grip on these guys. Realize most all of them lost somebody close to them on 9-11-01.
Report Post »Hey Abu, eat a shovel full of this!
Cliff
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:49pmthey will…. watch how the union bosses will twist this… you will be unpatriotic if you don’t build the mosque!!!
http://www.mentordvd.com
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:32pmHating one of the cornerstones America was built on (Freedom of Religion) doesn’t make you unpatriotic now, does it?
Report Post »If its Brown, (like Jerry Brown), flush it down !
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:38pmNow I won‘t stand here and tell you that there isn’t a correct definition of the word “Liberal” or a correct definition of the word “Progressive” or a correct definition of the word “Democracy.” There are, and they are very deep and very American and I loathe giving these words over to them. They are stealing these words. These are not their words, but these are the words under which they hope to win. So I say to you that when it comes to the question of understanding who is a Communist and who is not a Communist, the time has come to stop looking for Party cards, or Party Labels, and as Jim Carey once said, “If it acts like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck!”
Report Post »Outside Looking In
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 2:02pmYeah, yeah, you’re preaching to the choir.
We all watch Beck.
Now go out there and practice this spiel on your family and friends.
Report Post »(Remember to wear a flack jacket, kid.)
If its Brown, (like Jerry Brown), flush it down !
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:35pmThe word Communist is not the appropriate term. It is a “world” conspiracy. It is a conspiracy consisting of a group of men and women whose aim is to control the natural resources of the world, and who will use any mechanism. The staunchest mechanism they have found is the mechanism of the Soviet Union and Communism. However, they will not hesitate to use Fascism, Nazism, or Socialism or any other kind of “ism” in their struggle for power
Report Post »islesford1an
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:34pmThats it, I’ve had enough if this crap. I’m moving to Venezuela ….
Report Post »Grady Curve
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:31pmNO MORE mosques ANYWHERE…. I have had it with the freaks… Send them ALL back to the middle East… this is not an islamic country and its not going to be… they just as before the crusades are trying to take over the world and enslave everyone…
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:34pmvery true
Report Post »TrueGrit
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:49pmThey are popping up like dandelions… on long Island!!!!
Wolverine
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:21pmWouldn‘t bet it won’t be a muslim nation, they breed like rats, and have had a 1000 years plus to learn how to destroy all that is good.
Report Post »REETZBEE
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:57pmHere, Here…….No more Mosques!! What’s next, press three for Arabic?
Report Post »TX Progressive
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:12pmYou guys really all are backward idiots
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 10:50pmtxprogressive – I agree with you. The muslims really are backward idiots. Good call.
Report Post »13thgenerati0namerican
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:27pmooooh I feel a Firsties comin up, a Firsties Comin’ up! Whoop Whoop!
912828Buckeye
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:34pmSome day my son……..
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:44pmNot this knucklehead again. I had hoped 13thgenerati0namerican was gone. Here we go with the stupid “firsties” and other inane comments, again.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:00pmDon’t be the first, BE RIGHT! ( as in correct )
Report Post »13thgenerati0namerican
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:26pmWha Wha What? I said Firsties ladies and germs!
13thgenerati0namerican
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:25pmmmm mmm mmm firsties on the real tip
Rogue
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 2:46pmFail….. but less of a fail than most of your actual comments. lol!
Report Post »Carbine1
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:24pmO.K. Comrades HERE COMES THE REAL RADICAL reason with a new RELIGIOUS approach to building the Hate headquarters . I was wondering when they were going to slip in a NEW curriculumn. WAKE UP AMERICA.
Report Post »tompaineknowsthescore
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 8:55pmhe doesnt seem exceptionally radical just a muslim writes in the washington post
heres the imams website
http://www.sakeenah.org/
he says
Free, rational debate had always been accommodated within the religious context of shari‘a
and
Report Post »No prophet was ever given the license to pass judgment over the faith of a human being – as the Qur’an repeatedly reiterates, judgment is ultimately with God alone. Hence, constructive service of our sacred traditions lies in showing their relevance as a vehicle of infinite creativity, not in demoting them to preoccupation with judgment of contemporary culture.
wtd
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 9:19pmtompaineknowsthescore, he’s no moderate. He may present as such to the uneducated, uncritical eye as he does have a saccharine voice and demeanor, but his message is the same as the last.
Go ahead and check the sakeenah.org archive. The last entry in August 2008 reveals:
Family & Society Today
by Shaykh Abdallah Adhami
This series discusses many pressing issues of our time, including homosexuality, the relationship between neuro-emotive science and man’s spiritual essence, and stem-cell research conducted by
Muslim doctors in the second century after hijrah (eighth-century CE).
Stem-cell research in 700-800AD?
Then there is this: http://tinyurl.com/48roxxy = cached page of blog.park51
Quote==>”In the spirit of intrafaith peace and understanding, Park51 is honored to host a series of majalis (lectures) during the first ten days of the Islamic month of Muharram 1432.” “Monday, December 13 – Shaykh Abdallah Adhami. . . His works also strive to relate the eternal relevance of the essence of shari’ah laws as a vehicle to enhance modern lived experience. He is the founder and chairman of SAKEENAH.” <==
So, “in the spirit of intrafaith peace and understanding” at Park51 Shaykh’ Abdallah Adhami strives “to relate the eternal relevance of the essence of shari’ah laws as a vehicle to enhance modern lived experience.”
Oh, we understand the implications of sharia . . .thanks, but no thanks.
Lan astaslem
Report Post »لن استسلم
Thighmaster
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:23pmHang on to your ass, this is going to get ugly I’ll bet.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:32pmThey know we figured this guy out, they will replace him with a semingly less radical muslim with no sound bites to call on for proff.
Report Post »912828Buckeye
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:33pmWatch the other hand!
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:36pmIf these fools want us to accept them they need to go to Muslim countrys and show us how it works by opening up to Christian churches instead of killing our Christian workers by chopping their heads off.
“It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.” General George S Patton
We are waiting. Fools. God I love America
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:42pmLet’s see what questions the new guy will answer and how open he is.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:48pm@P C BE DAMNED
” by opening up to Christian churches instead of killing our Christian workers by chopping their heads off.”
Did you hear about the Muslim groups in Egypt who, after the Christian churches there were bombed by extremists a few weeks ago, went to the next Christian mass themselves risking their lives to act as human shields? Google it, there are many articles about it.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:30pm“Build a local following” are they finally getting to be like Christian churches in NYC that they have a mosque on every bloc and fight for every believers dollar? With more than 100 Mosques‘ in NYC already what’s one more? They really have to ask, its one Mosque to many especially when you look at its location.
I believe that this is a symbol of Occupation and Victory, just like the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem. If you look at how they treat that Mosques surrounding area Jews are not allowed to be in the same surface plane as the mosque. Jews are relegated to the lower level of what is called the “Western Wall or Wailing Wall”, if any Jew goes up to the mosque area it is nearly a call to war or at least rock throwing from the crowd that can gather on higher ground. This is what the call tolerance in their book???
Changing the Imam will not change their reason for pushing the Mosque forward and asking for public funds to build it…
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:31pmNS,
Muslim ‘bodyguards’ are only there to make the non-muslims feel subdued.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:52pmSure, all Muslims are evil and can never do anything good ever, even if they show solidarity it‘s just a dirty trick and if they speak out against terrorism it’s just a lie to make you feel safe and if they organize a rally against terrorism it’s just a charade and if they burn down a building where extremists gather and run them out of town (as has happened a few weeks ago, can’t say I like the method but it sure was effective) it’s just part of their evil masterplan.
So basically, Muslims cannot ever do anything to redeem themselves, no matter what they do. Gotcha.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:59pmYup, expect a visit to there by his exellency Lord Sheik Obama’ the self delusional one real soon. It will most likely have for the 9/11 memorial a victory motiff to it showing the greatness of those who brought down the towers that day; a real victory for the extremists cause.
We have indeed seen only the beginning of this.
Watch the other fist coming for us, for it will be weilded with iron.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:13pmThere is a simple answer to the GZ mosque. Spray pork blood all over the area, and drop a few pork chops and slabs of bacon in every room. They wil lthen consider the area unclean.
VanGrungy
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:42pmThe only good muslim is an apostate.
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PubliusPencilman
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 5:55pmIs that how you treat the Jews as well, MikeM?
God forbid a native-born American would like to practice his Constitutionally gauranteed freedom of worship.
Report Post »gracentruth
Posted on January 14, 2011 at 6:44pmCan someone who knows how get a petition or a bill or some paperwork started that we all can sign to make the ground zero area a national monument? That should put an end to Islamic war success story (building a mosque on their victory sites).
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