Politics Decoded

New York City Mosque

Why There?

Contrary to popular belief, Muslims don't want to build the mosque at ground zero.  The proposed site is about two blocks away and these are long blocks, they actually equal about six normal lower Manhattan blocks.

Imam Rauf chose this area because he's already had the al Farah mosque there since 1985, and needs to expand.  It is so overcrowded, he’s been using a former Burlington Coat Factory store for over a year as a spillover site.  He wants to build the new mosque at the site of the former store.   

Where is the Money Coming From?

According to FOX news, it’s probably coming from the “evil” Kingdom Foundation because it has previously funded Imam Rauf’s projects for more than $300,000.

But the Kingdom Foundation is Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal’s personal charity.

And Al-Waleed is the second-largest shareholder (2.3 billion stake) of FOX News’ parent company News Corporation.  And (FOX) News Corporation owns a 9% ($70 million stake) in Rotana, Al-Waleed’s Saudi media conglomerate.

Why the Outrage?

Isn’t the destruction of our constitution and personal freedoms the very thing the terrorists are trying to accomplish?  Do we really want to lower ourselves to their level?  We already lost many of our freedoms after 9/11 with the Patriot Act.  Then we stooped to their level with torture.  Are we now going to lose freedom of religion?

Separation of church and state is important because all religions produce fringe element terrorists.  We have 1002 active hate groups in America.   And I’ll bet most of its members call themselves Christians.

The plans for the mosque were approved by the mayor and the city officials, and there wasn’t a problem until Gingrich, Palin and other Republican leaders saw an opportunity to further their agenda.  The right-wing fringe has been promoting the lie that Obama is Muslim.  And it’s working - the number of Americans who believe it is growing.   So if people think Obama is Muslim and they can scare Americans into hating Muslims, then more Americans will hate Obama.