Muslims in NYC Planning to Build Second, Smaller Mosque Near Ground Zero
By Ed Barnes – FOXNews.comAs controversy surrounds the construction of a 13-story mosque just two blocks from Ground Zero, FOX News has learned that an effort to place a second mosque close to the hallowed site in New York City is in its advanced stages.
The Masjid Mosque has raised $8.5 million and is seeking an additional $2.5 million to begin construction. While it apparently has not settled on a final location, it has told donors it plans to build very close to where 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 terror attacks.
In fact, the website appealing for donations boldly states that it plans to “build the ‘House of Allah’ next to the World Trade Center. Help us raise the flag of ‘LA ILLAH ILLA ALLAH’ in downtown Manhattan.”
One source said he believed the planners are considering a five-story building on 23 Park Place, closer to Ground Zero than the 13-story mosque the Cordoba Initiative is planning to build. But a tax record search shows that 23 Park Place is in private hands and has not changed owners since 2008.
Unlike the massive $100 million Cordoba House mosque, the Masjid Mosque is small – and it is no stranger to the neighborhood. Since 1970 it had been located at 12 Warren Street, about four blocks north of the World Trade Center, in a neat but nondescript industrial space that once housed a printing shop. It lost its lease in 2008 when the building was sold, and it was evicted from its second-floor prayer space on May 25 of that year. Since then it has been operating out a cramped basement space in a nearby building at 20 Warren Street.
On Friday evenings the mosque, which is popular with street vendors and taxi drivers, becomes so crowded that worshipers spill onto nearby sidewalks to pray in what has come to be a community event.
A press representative for Daisy Kahn, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, said neither she nor anyone in her group had been aware of the Masjid’s efforts. “They have no connection to us,” she said. “We didn’t even know they were there.”
Masjid mosque leaders claim on their website that they are deeply involved in converting people to Islam and run a special program to convert those who are interested.
Efforts to reach mosque leaders were not successful. Calls left with Naheem Mohammed, the mosque’s treasurer, were not returned. Calls to the mosque itself were not answered. And efforts to reach Abdullah El-Khory, the president of the mosque’s board, were not successful.
Julie Menin, chairwoman of Community Board 1, also declined to return several calls. The board, which monitors and approves all development in the financial district surrounding Ground Zero and has been stung by criticism from the families of 9/11 victims, is permitted to assess the impact of building a mosque at the site.
Trying to build a 100,000 square foot, mega-Mosque at Ground Zero is not enough for Muslims. They want the presence of Islam felt all around us, and they do not care if we like it or not. Freedom of religion with Islam = freedom for them to takeover. After the Barbary Coast Wars, it should of been banned. Now the enemy is within.
We attack them every chance we get…pig blood is great for a start! Splash pig blood on their mosques, on theigrave sites, business, beat them up on the streets….Get the picture? …Tom
BUILD A MASSIVE GRAVEYARD FOR THOSE KILLED BY US SOLDERS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN,or an orphanage for them
I think that people also need to join SIOA, Pamella Geller's name is growing by the day, and if the mega-Mosque is stopped, her group will be very strong. We need both groups to move forward.
Did it,,…signed up with SIOA last week…
I get your picture Tom, but I'm afraid violence is not the way to go. Then we just come down to their level.
Not to forget it makes them the victims, and you know how the muslims love to play the victim role. They'll have the New York Times crying right beside them. Oh I can hear Alan Colmes now…"poor, poor muslims, blood all over ."
Sounds like arselifters won't be happy until all of Manhattan is one giant moske.
When all of us are under muslim iron boot, then it is time for the intergalactic jihad. Earth is not enough. The ummah must be spread throughout the universe.
Even the pig planet of Porcus Prime Rib?
First they'll need to go to the Moon and split it like Mahound.
Imagine ET's that isn't even humanoid looking. Maybe they don't have any arse to lift? LMAO
That could pose a problem.
My country is on it.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewr…
LOL! Arselifters in space would never know which way to pray. Never mind that zero g will play hell with them.
They're going to trace where the black meteorite they calls kaba comes from. When they find it, then they think they will have found the true Mecca, the homeworld of allah himself. I believe it will look something like Venus in our sol-system.
Maybe all the arselifters will want to go there to be with allah.
Curse. Blog. Use every such incident as an excuse for a blistering blog post. Tell everyone who will listen exactly what Isdamn is, explain its doctrines & practices.
Too few people are aware of Islamic supremacism. It is up to us to spread awareness.
Our government is supposed to protect us, but now we are forced to do their job.
Keep up the good work!
Here's some good ideas to stop them:
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/05/15/action-item-here-i…
Follow the money:
http://www.weeklyblitz.net/724/spitting-in-the-fa…
Several peole have told me that Qatar was an ally of ours. Yet now we see they are helping fund the Islamization of America.
Yep, they are a big contributor. So is the UN. You might want to ask questions about Rockefeller's and Carnegie's involvement.
They were mentioned in this article.
https://loganswarning.com/2010/05/14/ground-zero-c…
My memory isn't what it used to be.
You asked about the counter demonstrators in Borlänge, Dalarna the other day. They seem to be neo-nazis unfortunately.
Oh well.
Thanks, signed. I think the Mosque will get turned down, there are just too many people against it. Of course they will then fill a lawsuit, and look to build it elsewhere nearby.
I found this video at Eye On The World –
http://eye-on-the-world.blogspot.com/2010/05/vide…
Latest news on this. Dhimmis come out in support!
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/05/23/20…
Check out the comments to the article.
Latest news on this –
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/05/23/20…
BUILD A MASSIVE GRAVEYARD FOR THOSE KILLED BY US SOLDERS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN