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Report: Ground Zero mosque investor contributed to Hamas
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Published: 04.09.10, 16:36
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2. Investor
Ezra ,   Florida   (09.04.10)
NO kidding !!!!!!! Hey Obama and Bloomberg, and your ilk, did you hear that (for the umpteenth time)? If theymust build a mosque, it would be fitting to build it in DEATH VALLEY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. Not enough
Mark from Georgia ,   USA   (09.04.10)
Look, I would prefer this not be built at ground zero. But the fact that one of the investors gave $6 grand, 11 years ago, to a charity busted for funding terrorism, doesn't prove a thing. While I personally believe that high rollers like this guy, knew the inside dealings of these kinds of charities, you simply can't prove it. Period. That was why they were set up. To give donors a plausible way to deny knowledge of the the true nature of these charities. Plus the smaller donors (less powerful) probably didn't know the true reason for the fake charities. Put simply, your barking up the wrong tree, unless you have more information, you can't prove a thing based on this one donation. Unless there are more direct links, it is just not enough. That was the point, to cover their tracks.
4. Post #3 is the work of our resident imposter. Disregard.
flyingdoc57 ,   Florida, U.S.A.   (09.04.10)
5. wrong time wrong place
john ,   uk   (09.04.10)
Building the shrine is , neither Islam nor true moslems need such a debate. The guy financed an orphnage ya , didnt AIPAc financed the Gaza war and the Lebanese Was where mass murders were committed by The IDF the biggest state terror oeginization, oh I forgoe the thousands of children murderdered were not jewish it is ok to Finance there killing ... PRAYS THE LORDS
6. #4; flyingdocs57, that was me
Mark from Georgia ,   USA   (09.04.10)
If somebody is doing that, and I'm sure somebody is, your wrong in this case. I can't understand why these people are stirring up trouble by posing as other writers? It is annoying, but up till now, it has not happened to me, although I probably shouldn't write that.
7. Lots of Land, Available Right Here
Dav Lev ,   Burbank. CAUSA   (09.04.10)
There is a huge largely unsettled piece of land in Kern County,Calif. It was meant to be Califs 2nd or 3rd largest city. It consists of about 13,000 people now..and a Rite Aid store only. The roads are there, and cul de sacs for building. No one is interested. Hey mosque supporters and financiers..here is your opportunity, to build, baby build. With hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Calif.,.,give THEM a mosque and community center. No problemo. To Bloomberg, Goldstone, and Madoff..you might be all Jewish, but your actions are killing us. Consider Hamas, Iran's take on the Holocaust, Hez, Islamic Jihad..and the flotilla supporters., before you side with our enemies. Like the Jews in France in 1942, they have targeted all of us..all, get it. 41,000 secular Jews died in Auschwitz. 4 pious Jews deserved life..life, life. Hamas says, all settlers are viable targets, to murder, even pregnant ones.
8. to #5
Michel V ,   Antwerp Belgium   (09.04.10)
to#5 thousands of childeren murdered? You come from the moon or just a leftwing fanatic?
9. John from the UK
Ehud   (09.04.10)
According to the former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Kemp, has no army in the history of modern warfare done more to prevent loss of civilian lives than the IDF. Look it up! So, maybe you should occupy yourself more with what your own troops do in Afghanistan, Johnnyboy. With respect to the Mosque - didn't the British nix a project of an Islamic Supercenter in East London? Amazing you have time to deal with the US or us, you should be completely busy with what the UK does - and with improving your spelling and grammar!
10. Disasterous move by the US Muslim community
Cameron ,   USA   (09.05.10)
Respect & liking for Muslims was already in bad shape in the years since 9-11, but this mosque stunt in New York sent it right through the floor. If anyone out there can make good sense of this kind of move, please enlighten me, 'cause it truly does seem as though the Muslim community went out of it's way to crap on themselves with this kind of symbolism.
11. #10, Cameron
Chatich   (09.05.10)
Perhaps those behind the project wish nothing more than to rouse anti-muslim sentiment in the US. What better way to recruit more homegrown terror operatives? Works in Israel.
12. El-Gamal & El-Zanaty
observer   (09.05.10)
The son of a bank executive, El-Gamal said he turned to Islam after 9/11 and that his religious awakening followed a troubled youth. Sharif El-Gamal bought the property where he plans to build a $100 million Islamic cultural center, two blocks from Ground Zero, for nearly $5 million in July 2009. If you look at a map of Manhattan, most of Muslims' major cultural and community centers are north of Houston. In 1999, Hisham Elzanaty's parents were killed when Egyptian Air Flight 990 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off of Nantucket Island. Investigators concluded the flight was deliberately crashed by the first officer, with all 217 on board perishing. in the Flight 990, some 33 "top Egyptian military officers" also perished. The crashed plane was flown by an alleged Muslim Brotherhood member who shouted, "Tawakkalt Ala Allah!," meaning, "I rely on Allah!" Why later in 1999, El-zanaty donated over $6,000 to the "Holy Land Foundation". Because that the Holy Land was then a legal relief NGO? or because the perpetrator of the crash was one of the Muslim Brothers, whom Hamas is linked to? or because there had been great suspicion that the crypto-enemy Israel had targeted those 33 top Egyptian military officers? El-Zanaty Character in Egypt's folklore is well known as the Brave Hero!
13. Here I am!
Faisal Abdul Rauf ,   Ground Zero   (09.05.10)
This is a political matter in which I cannot favor one side over another so I will not comment on it. I state this as a moderate Imam who doesn't want to bother anybody. This is why we are building the future Cordoba 9/11 Victory Mosque property 600 feet from Ground Zero and not on Ground Zero.
14. not hamas, the org is the "Muslims brotherhood"
ghostq   (09.05.10)
yeah the same Sunnis terror org that active in Egypt, BUT the org is best friend of Hamas, so no uprising there, the MB is banned in Egypt, outlawed for reason, after cast lead they murdered French tourists in centeral Cairo.
15. Cordoba at ground zero
hale and lighting   (09.05.10)
and americans are supose to accept it ???
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