No Mosque at Ground Zero!
Here is the link to the official notice of the hearing
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/calendar/07_13_10.pdf.
You can also write to Robert B. Tierney, Chair of the Landmarks Preservation
Commission here
http://nyc.gov/html/mail/html/maillpc.html.
Fellow New Yorkers, Americans, People of the free world!
If you live in the New York metropolitan area, know someone who does or happen to travel here, this message is for you!
You heard a lot about the plans by the organization known as the Cordoba Initiative to build a Muslim mosque right next to the Ground Zero in the downtown of New York City. They would call it “the Cordoba House”, a glass-and-steel building purportedly to serve as a community center. It would house a swimming pool, an auditorium and a basketball court. Sounds cool, right? Wrong!
It is an incredibly sad fact that this kind of heartless mockery and horrendous ridicule of the victims of 9/11 could pass “unanimously” through the Community Board’s Committee in May of this year. First and foremost and apart from anything else, this plan is immoral, insensitive and demining on its face to thousands of people who died on that day and to many thousands more whose lives will never be the same! But beyond that, putting up this mosque would arguably signify a de facto beginning of the Islamization of this nation! That is when Islam and its traits, the most known of which is Shahriar law, makes its way into our social institutions and ultimately takes over our way of life.
And, NO, I am not talking about the peaceful albeit silent Islamic majority. I am talking about the very much loud, militant, murderous, sadistic minority whose fascist ideas subvert the rest of the Islamic world and enslave it to their will. I am talking about Islamic extremists and terrorists. These animals are not concerned with simple virtues you and I share, such as honesty or morality! Instead, deception, cruelty, and hatred are fair game for their lot. Islamic extremism is an anti-culture of seeding, brewing, cultivating and educating future perpetrators of the most atrocious crimes against humanity the world has known since the end of the Third Reich.
But one may ask, how is it possible that in a great, freedom loving country like ours, Islamic extremism may grow? Well, education starts in families, schools and communities. That is in places like the Cordoba House. You say this is a fabricated argument? But then what would explain the utmost lack of sensitivity and compassion on the part of the Cordoba Initiative who plans to plop an Islamic site virtually on top of hallowed grounds, on top of what used to be the World Trade Center destroyed by Islamic extremists in the name of Allah! After all, symbolism has been very much modus operandi of terrorism.
Yes, Islamization starts in mosques. This process has been long underway in Europe. The United States is the final frontier. If our society, our way of life, the beckon of hope for generations of oppressed people around the globe goes under, so goes the world. That means YOU and YOUR family!
We have to act now! The time of sitting out political and social storms has passed! Given the abhorrent decision by the Community Board’s Committee to allow construction of the mosque, the only other possibility to stop it is by way of declaring the existing building at 45 Park Place in New York a landmark site. The last hearing on this matter by the Landmark Preservation Commission will take place on July 13 at 2 PM at 904 Lexington Avenue, in the Lecture Hall 714 of Hunter College on the 7th floor (at the corner of East 68th Street), Borough of Manhattan. Show up and voice your outrage to this plan! Here is the link to the official notice of the hearing http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/calendar/07_13_10.pdf. You can also write to Robert B. Tierney, Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission here http://nyc.gov/html/mail/html/maillpc.html.