If Imam Rauf, (funded with our taxdollars on his fundraising galavants), was truly wishing to promote an "olive branch" and extend Islam as a religion of peace, he would renovate the Mosque TWO BLOCKS OVER.
As a FDNY spokesman told local news: "Day can go down to West tirdy-third street dares a Mosque right on da corna". (Hard to type a heavy NY accent),
There are approx. 30 Mosques in Manhattan. Many have been there for decades. ......FINE.
Realize the insensitivity, the jab to those family members that lost loved ones on 9/11, and renovate an existing Mosque or buils elsewhere.
Even Trump, a born and raised New Yorker, says, "Bad Idea".
The Imam, has said some inflammatory remarks, going back to Spring 2002 on 60 Minutes, an Aussie interview, and the funding can't pass the smell test.
Bloomberg, has offices in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, promoting his "stake" in investing in NY........Hmmmm.... Geee......another smell test,...FAIL....
It's just a trophy mosque, promoted by those that would love to make us another European country, infiltrated by a mass Muslim immigration policy, that are now regretting it.
More mosques than churches in England.... Don't we get it yet? Seems 68-70% of America doesn't want it 500 feet from Ground Zero,.. yet, Bloomberg, and the current Admin just keep pushing.
Just wrong.