Andrew Klavan: Does Islam Suck?
June 8, 2011, Sivan 6, 5771
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPzC0ZEZ8NQ&feature=related
Ground Zero
September 14, 2010
Joseph Nasralla, coptic christian, speaks at the 9-11 Rally of Remembrance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiCHL6Nrby0&feature=player_embedded#!
Sam Koshbaten, Iraanse moslim activist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYQRzkaSF2g&feature=channel
Onze eigen Nederlandse Geert Wilders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsQKrTZ5-ww
Reacties op de speech van Geert Wilders:
http://headlines.nos.nl/forum.php/list_messages/21621
Westerse waarden vss de vlag van de moslims wapperend boven het Witte huis. Dit wordt openlijk toegegeven in een televisieprogramma.
Link Latma.tv: Palestinian minister of uncontrollable rage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIhayNe6BAU&feature=channel
Link Latma.tv: Palestinian minister of uncontrollable rage in New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoUtVu80kD0
Ground Zero Mosque Investor Donated to Hamas “Charity”
by Elad Benari
September 6, 2010, Elul 27, 5770
One of the investors in the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York was a donor to a charity that was later shut down due to its connection to Hamas.
According to an AP report on Friday, Hisham Elzanaty, 51, is among the members of a real estate partnership that paid $4.8 million for the vacant clothing store that is planned to be torn down and replaced by the Islamic center and mosque. This information was confirmed by the developer leading the project.
Critics of the Ground Zero project have pointed to a donation made by Elzanaty to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in 1999. According to tax records, Elzanaty gave $6,050 to the foundation, which was the largest Islamic charity in the US at the time. The Holy Land Foundation raised millions of dollars from Americans in the 1990s. The money was supposed to fund schools, orphanages and social welfare programs.
However, in 2001, the US government froze the foundation's assets and accused it of acting as a fundraiser for Hamas, which has been a recognized terrorist group in the States since 1995. Furthermore, in 2004, the foundation and some of its leaders were indicted on charges of supporting Hamas, and five were ultimately convicted.
During a 2002 interview with Newsday, Elzanaty mentioned his philanthropic activities involving PA Arabs: "When you see people surrounded by tanks and F-16s, you ask how can we help? But you don't want years later to have a knock on the door and someone asking why did you donate money?"
AP also reported that besides Elzanaty, others also donated to the Holy Land Foundation in 1999, including NBA star Hakeem Olajuwon, the Microsoft Corp., and a medical equipment company owned by General Electric.
Newspaper stories questioning whether the Holy Land Foundation had ties to Hamas began to appear as early as 1993, AP added. Israel banned the foundation in 1997, but the US did not crack down on it until after the September 11 attacks.
Elzanaty's lawyer told a reporter for WNYW on Thursday that his client had no knowledge of the foundation’s involvement with Hamas when he donated the money, and had intended the donation to go to an orphanage.
Sharif El-Gamal, the developer in charge of the ground zero mosque project said in a statement quoted in the Wall Street Journal: "Hisham is a major investor in the Park51 project. He is one of eight investors all whom agree with me that this project will not be funded in anyway from any country, terrorist organization or entity hostile to America or its values."
While El-Gamal has so-far not revealed the names of his other financial backers, he has said that the group is diverse and includes Jews and Christians, Polish-Americans, Italian-Americans, and others. El-Gamal and Elzanaty are reportedly the only Muslims in the group.
Three months ago, it was also revealed that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the cleric behind the proposed mosque, is a major donor to the pro-Hamas Free Gaza movement, which has been behind several attempts to break the Israeli sea embargo on Hamas, including sending the “Rachel Corrie” ship. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/137890
The project itself has been a source for controversy in the US, as protests both for and against it have taken place. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/139256 While the project has been endorsed by politicians such as President Barack Obama as well as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, others such as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin have spoken out against the project.A CNN poll conducted on August 11 found that 68 per cent of Americans oppose the Muslim center project in Ground Zero.
Wilders tegen koranverbranding
September 8, 2010
© ANP
DEN HAAG - Ook PVV-leider Geert Wilders keert zich tegen het voornemen van een Amerikaanse predikant om zaterdag, 11 september, korans te verbranden. ''Slecht plan!'', liet hij woensdag desgevraagd weten via een sms.
Wilders had vanwege formatieverplichtingen geen tijd om er dieper op in te gaan.
De Europese Unie, de Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Hillary Clinton en onder anderen de Amerikaanse generaal David Petraeus, de hoogste NAVO-militair in Afghanistan, hadden de plannen van de predikant van een kleine protestantse kerk in Florida al veroordeeld.
Wilders zelf is zaterdag in New York, precies negen jaar na de terreuraanslag op het World Trade Center. Hij houdt dan een toespraak tijdens een protestbijeenkomst tegen de plannen om een moskee te bouwen nabij Ground Zero.
Holocaust
Volgens de Centrale Raad van de Joden in Duitsland herinnert het plan aan de boekenverbranding in de nazitijd, waar de Holocaust op volgde.
Voorzitter Charlotte Knobloch herinnerde aan een beroemd citaat van de grote negentiende-eeuwse Duitse dichter Heinrich Heine: ''Daar waar men boeken verbrandt, verbrandt men uiteindelijk ook mensen.'' Zij noemde het plan ''verschrikkelijk en walgelijk''.
Een klein centrum in de stad Gainesville, dat zich kerk noemt en naar schatting slechts vijftig leden telt, wil korans gaan verbranden op de zelf uitgeroepen ''Internationale Koranverbrandingsdag''. Het centrum, het protestantse Dove World Outreach Center, ageert al geruime tijd fanatiek tegen de islam en tegen homoseksualiteit.
Islam
Predikant Terry Jones stelt dat de door hem georganiseerde 'Koranverbrandingsdag' is bedoeld ''om hen te herdenken die op gruwelijke wijze werden vermoord op 11 september'' en om ''de radicale elementen binnen de islam'' een waarschuwing te geven.
Zaterdag is het precies negen jaar geleden dat moslimterroristen met gekaapte passagiersvliegtuigen in de Twin Towers van het World Trade Center in New York vlogen en het Pentagon in Washington troffen. Circa drieduizend mensen kwamen om.
Vaticaan
Het Vaticaan noemde de geplande koranverbranding ''een schandalige en ernstige daad''. Volgens het Vaticaan ''heeft elke godsdienst met zijn eigen heilige geschriften, godsdienstige plaatsen en symbolen, recht op respect en bescherming''.
Volgens VN-gezant in Afghanistan Staffan de Mistura betekent vrijheid van meningsuiting niet dat een geloof en miljoenen gelovigen moeten worden beledigd. Het aantal moslims wereldwijd wordt op ongeveer 1,3 miljard geschat. Het is de grootste wereldgodsdienst na het christendom, dat ruwweg 2 miljard gelovigen telt.
Respectloos
Ook in de VS zelf is fel gereageerd op de plannen. Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Hillary Clinton noemde het plan ''respectloos'' en ''schandelijk''. En: ''Onze toewijding tot religieuze tolerantie gaat terug naar het allereerste begin van onze natie.''
Minister van Justitie Eric Holder betitelde het voornemen als ''idioot en gevaarlijk''. Volgens de voorzitter van de Islamitische Maatschappij van Noord-Amerika zijn veel moslims in de VS bang.
Jones en zijn circa vijftig volgelingen willen enkele honderden exemplaren van de koran in brand steken. De brandweer heeft hiervoor geen toestemming gegeven, maar de politie kan pas ingrijpen als de organisatoren de stapel boeken aansteken.
Moskee op Ground Zero
September 2, 2010
http://www.radicalislam.org/content/nyc-ground-zero-mosque-founder-exposed?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=School+year+begins+and+children+suffer&utm_campaign=RI+Newsletter+25&utm_term=25walid_jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoUtVu80kD0
New York: Protests For and Against Ground Zero Mosque
by Elad Benari
August 23, 2010, Elul 13, 5770
The planned Muslim center and mosque in New York’s Ground Zero continue to generate discussion. Two separate protests took place on the site Sunday, as parties both opposed and in favor of the planned mosque sounded their voices.
According to local police, about 450 of those opposed and 250 supporters of the planned mosque were present.
The New York Times reported that those opposed sang patriotic songs. They mentioned “a hijacked Constitution, a renegade presidency and tolerance toward the sensitivities of New Yorkers whose relatives died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,” said the report.
The opponents of the mosque said that they fully support religious freedoms, but that the location of the planned Islamic center “represented an incursion on the rights of Americans who deemed Ground Zero a hallowed space,” said the Times.
Kali Costas, a Long Island education worker, told the Times that having a mosque on this site is “a smack in the face,” while Dominick DeRubbio, whose uncle was a firefighter who died in the World Trade Center, said: “I’m upset at how this whole thing was handled. The level of defiance is running high. They’re saying, ‘We’re doing this whether you like it or not.’”
Firefighter Tim Brown, who escaped the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, told the New York Daily News: "It's very insensitive to the families. This is not about religious freedom. All we are saying is don't build this mosque here at Ground Zero on our cemetery."
Members of the group of supporters demonstrated two blocks away and said that tolerance should be directed toward members of different religions. They said they believed the protesters were propagating the type of hate speech spread by segregationists in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Times reported that police were able to keep the two groups apart, except for the occasional scuffle.
The proposed mosque has generated much discussion over religious tolerance in the United States versus respect towards the victims of the deadly 9/11 attacks and their families. Last week, President Barack Obama expressed his strong support for the mosque, causing arguments about it to fill the media.
“As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country,” said Obama. “This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are.”Also supporting the mosque is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose speech on August 3 spoke of religious liberty. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, on the other hand, has expressed his opposition to the planned mosque on Ground Zero, and said the center and mosque should be moved to state-owned land farther from the Sept. 11 attack site.
During an interview on NBC's "Today" Show last week, Giuliani said: "If you are a healer, you do not go forward with this project. If you are a warrior, you do."
A CNN poll conducted on August 11 found that 68 per cent of Americans oppose the Muslim center project in Ground Zero. Another poll was conducted by the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, California, where visitors were asked last Wednesday: Is it appropriate to erect a Mosque and Islamic Community Center close to the 9/11 site? The results as of Friday, according to a reported by the Associated Press, is that 37 percent answered yes, while 62 percent said no.
Rallies over mosque near ground zero get heated
August 23, 2010
By Verena Dobnik
NEW YORK – The proposed mosque near ground zero drew hundreds of fever-pitch demonstrators Sunday, with opponents carrying signs associating Islam with blood, supporters shouting, "Say no to racist fear!" and American flags waving on both sides.
The two leaders of the construction project, meanwhile, defended their plans, though one suggested that organizers might eventually be willing to discuss an alternative site. The other, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, said during a Middle East trip that the attention generated by the project is actually positive and that he hopes it will bring greater understanding.
Around the corner from the cordoned-off old building that is to become a 13-story Islamic community center and mosque, police separated the two groups of demonstrators. There were no reports of physical clashes but there were some nose-to-nose confrontations, including a man and a woman screaming at each other across a barricade under a steady rain.
Opponents of the $100 million project two blocks from the World Trade Center site appeared to outnumber supporters. Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" blared over loudspeakers as mosque opponents chanted, "No mosque, no way!"
Signs hoisted by dozens of protesters standing behind police barricades read "SHARIA" — using dripping, blood-red letters to describe Islam's Shariah law, which governs the behavior of Muslims.
Steve Ayling, a 40-year-old Brooklyn plumber who carried his sign to a dry spot by an office building, said the people behind the mosque project are "the same people who took down the twin towers."
Opponents demand that the mosque be moved farther from the site where more than 2,700 people were killed on Sept. 11, 2001. "They should put it in the Middle East," Ayling said.
On a nearby sidewalk, police chased away a group that unfurled a banner with images of beating, stoning and other torture they said was committed by those who followed Islamic law.
A mannequin wearing a keffiyeh, a traditional Arab headdress, was mounted on one of two mock missiles that were part of an anti-mosque installation. One missile was inscribed with the words: "Again? Freedom Targeted by Religion"; the other with "Obama: With a middle name Hussein. We understand. Bloomberg: What is your excuse?"
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has fiercely defended plans for the proposed mosque, saying that the right "to practice your religion was one of the real reasons America was founded."
The mosque project is being led by Rauf and his wife, Daisy Khan, who insist the center will promote moderate Islam. The dispute has sparked a national debate on religious freedom and American values and is becoming an issue on the campaign trail ahead of the midterm elections. Republicans have been critical of President Barack Obama's stance: He has said the Muslims have the right to build the center at the site but has not commented on whether he thinks they should.
Rauf is in the middle of a Mideast trip funded by the U.S. State Department that is intended to promote religious tolerance. He told a gathering Sunday at the U.S. ambassador's residence in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain that he took heart from the dispute over the mosque, saying "the fact we are getting this kind of attention is a sign of success." "It is my hope that people will understand more," Rauf said without elaborating.
Democratic New York Gov. David Paterson has suggested that state land farther from ground zero be used for the center. Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, expressed some openness to that idea on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour," but said she would have to meet with the center's other "stakeholders" first.
"We want to build bridges," Khan said. "We don't want to create conflict, this is not where we were coming from. So, this is an opportunity for us to really turn this around and make this into something very, very positive. So we will meet, and we will do what is right for everyone."
But Khan also said the angry reaction to the project "is like a metastasized anti-Semitism."
"It's not even Islamophobia. It's beyond Islamophobia," she said. "It's hate of Muslims."
At the pro-mosque rally, staged a block away from opponents' demonstration, several hundred people chanted, "Muslims are welcome here! We say no to racist fear!"
Dr. Ali Akram, a 39-year-old Brooklyn physician, came with his three sons and an 11-year-old nephew waving an American flag. He noted that scores of Muslims were among those who died in the towers, and he called those who oppose the mosque "un-American."
"They teach their children about the freedom of religion in America — but they don't practice what they preach," Akram said.
John Green, who lost a friend in the attacks, said that although organizers have the right to build the project, "I think if they moved it, they would get the respect of more Americans than if they play hardball." He was demonstrating in the group of mosque opponents.
Gila Barzvi, whose son, Guy, was killed in the towers, stood with mosque opponents, clutching a large photo of her son with both hands.
"This is sacred ground and it's where my son was buried," the native Israeli from Queens said. She said the mosque would be "like a knife in our hearts."
She was joined by a close friend, Kobi Mor, who flew from San Francisco to participate in the rally.
If the mosque gets built, "we will bombard it," Mor said. He would not elaborate but added that he believes the project "will never happen."
Rauf, in an interview with Bahrain's Al Wasat newspaper, said America's sweeping constitutional rights are more in line with Islamic principles than the limits imposed by some Muslim nations.
"American Muslims have the right to practice their religion in accordance with the Constitution of the United States," Rauf said. "I see the article of independence as more compliant with the principles of Islam than what is available in many of the current Muslim countries."
Bericht uit 'Nu.jij.nl' : Er komt geen moskee bij Ground Zero
18 augustus 2010
http://www.nujij.nl/er-komt-geen-moskee-bij-ground-zero.9512271.lynkx
Mosque Near Ground Zero 'Like a Pig in the Temple'
by Eli Stutz
August 4, 2010, Av 24, 5770
The plan to build a mosque adjacent to the ruins of the Twin Towers passed a crucial hurdle Tuesday when New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 9-0 not to declare the building now occupying the site protected, making way for it to be demolished and a mosque and Islamic center to be built in its place.
No one was more shocked by the news than retired Brigadier General Dov Shefi, a former chief military prosecutor and now attorney general of the Defense Ministry who lost his son in the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers. "For us it's like bringing a pig into the temple," Shefi told Arutz-7.
According to Shefi, people cannot accept the fact that a mosque will be built on the site of the disaster. "I think that the establishment of a mosque in this place, a place that serves as a memorial site for 40,000 families, is like bringing a pig (an unkosher animal) into the Holy Temple. It is inconceivable that in all the city of New York, this site was specifically chosen to establish an institution that represents the culture that led the terrorists of Al-Qaeda to carry out the greatest crime ever.
"America sometimes loses its mind. America raised the banner of the freedom and liberty, allowing everyone to express an opinion, but this belief often makes them lose sight of reality."
Shefi has already turned to U.S. government officials, calling on them to cancel this initiative. "I'm connected to all the support groups of the U.S. families and victim organizations, and I'm not ashamed to write them. I sent a letter to the mayor of New York. I know it will be hard for them to accede to my request but they must understand us."
Shefi told Arutz-7 of his son Haggai, and the terrible news on the day of the disaster. He related that Hagai was a "genius of geniuses" and that and at the age of 29 he was already president of a high-tech company.
The Shefi family flew immediately to the U.S. after the disaster, and Haggai's body was found and brought to burial in Israel. Shefi said that Haggai phoned his wife after the plane hit the north tower to say goodbye to her.
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