July 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment · Edit This
Pamela Geller
Atlas Shrugs
More supremacist ties to the Ground Zero mega mosque going up on sacred ground:
A religion adviser to President Obama has close ties to the imam who wants to build a 13-story Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. The two have been documented together discussing America as “the ideal place for a renewal of Islam,” WND has learned.
In February, Obama named a Chicago Muslim, Eboo Patel, to his Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Patel is the founder and executive director of Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core, which says it promotes pluralism by teaming people of different faiths on service projects.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the controversial Muslim leader behind the plan to build the Islamic center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, wrote the afterword to Patel’s 2006 book, “Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action.”
Patel is listed as one of 15 “Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow” on the website for the American Society for the Advancement of Muslims, or ASAM, which is led by Rauf.
In Patel’s 2007 book, “Saving Each Other, Saving Ourselves,” he recounts discussing with Rauf the future of Islam in the U.S.
Rauf “understood the vision immediately and suggested that I visit him and his wife, Daisy Khan, at their home the following evening,” Patel recalled.
Khan founded the ASAM with her husband and has aided him in his plans for the mosque near Ground Zero.
“The living room of their apartment on the Upper West Side was set up like a mosque, with prayer rugs stretched from wall to wall,” wrote Patel in his book.
Continued Patel: “I arrived at dusk, prayed the maghrib prayer with Daisy and Imam Feisal and then talked with them about how America, with its unique combination of religious devotion and religious diversity, was the ideal place for a renewal of Islam.”
“In the twentieth century, Catholicism and Judaism underwent profound transformations in America,” Rauf observed. “I think, this century, in America, Islam will do the same.”
Patel boasts of a “critical mass” of Muslims in the U.S.
“Islam is a religion that has always been revitalized by its migration,” he wrote. “America is a nation that has been constantly rejuvenated by immigrants. There is now a critical mass of Muslims in America.”
Patel last March wrote a Huffington Post piece referring to Obama’s former “green jobs” czar Van Jones as a “faith hero.”
“In my last post on Van, I called him an American patriot,” wrote Patel. “That is high praise in my book. But watching Van’s speech at the NAACP, I have another title for him, one that I reserve for the true giants of history. Van Jones is a faith hero.”
Jones resigned in September after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of possible involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Jones also called for “resistance” against the U.S.
Jones previously stated his advocacy for green jobs was part of a broader movement to destroy
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Bush IS responsible for 911-look into the evidence, you will see. The Mosque at ground zero, not a good idea, too many Americans believe that Muslims are responsible for 911-which is untrue. But it’s difficult to convince anybody of anything anymore, let alone the truth. Personally, I would like to know when the govt was in charge of building churches with the taxpayer’s money. If they are going to build a “13 story church” huh? That alone should tell you something is mighty strange here. It should be a chapel for ALL Faiths-not just Muslim. Obama wants his own mosque, like a Pharoah of ancient Egypt. Roots are everything. OMG I dispise the political personal agenda and their corrupt ideology. They are like rancid meat.
Bush wasn’t in office long enough to pull that off. Think about it. Not saying the power brokers didn’t bring it on but blaming Bush is total nonsense. Wake up smell the coffee, difficult to drink with your head up your butt, LOL J.C.