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Vito Fossella's Anti-Mosque Protest

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Yesterday, Vito Fossella led a protest in Staten Island against the building of a mosque two blocks from the World Trade Center site. The Staten Island Advance, which says it was peaceful, reports the former Congressman (who left office in disgrace), said, "We made promises to be the voices of those that died on September 11, 2001. A mosque on that site undermines the efforts to ensure that that hollowed ground remain sacred."

One man told the Advance, "When we can build a Christian church in Mecca, then they can build a mosque at Ground Zero." (FWIW, the U.S. is not Saudi Arabia, as Bloomberg has pointed out.) And another protester told the Post, "Building that mosque there is like the Mafia building their headquarters next to the Police Headquarters."

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  • Surely this is not a good idea,didn't have to come back on the september 11th.But solely for those who died in this accident I think that the deserve much more respect

  • mutuelle santé

    Surely this is not a good idea,didn't have to come back on the september 11th.But solely for those who died in this accident I think that the deserve much more respect.

  • potsmoker

    Mosque gets all the press, but area near Ground Zero full of bars, porn, liquor stores, salons.



    Ill be praying at the "Holy" Pussycat Lounge tonight.

  • potsmoker

    Feisal Abdul Rauf also heads up the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) which enjoys a partnership with the Cordoba Initiative and provided $100 million to secure the site close to ground zero for the mosque to be built.



    That $100 million came directly from the back pockets of ASMA’s financial backers.



    According to ASMA’s website they include the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers, Rockefeller Philanthropy, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund – essentially the tip of the pyramid of the international globalist elite.

  • potsmoker

    This information provides a compelling backdrop to the theory that the move to establish the mosque is a deliberate attempt to further stoke religious tensions and divert attention away from the real enemy of free humanity, the corporate globalist elite who continue to profit from global war and division.



    The proposed mosque, to be known as Cordoba House is the project of the Cordoba Initiative, an organisation founded by ‘Imam’ Feisal Abdul Rauf (pictured above), who, in addition to being a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council of 100, is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Religious Advisory Committee.



    The Cordoba Initiative’s website cites “Christian support for the Cordoba House” in the form of Christian publication, “Sojourners”, which is owned by evangelical Christian writer and political activist Jim Wallis, also coincidentally a sitting member of the CFR’s Religious Advisory Committee.



    The CFR, as regular readers know, is populated exclusively by major players with the biggest corporations, banks and defence contractors in the world – all of whom are making vast profits and securing more power from continued global conflict. The CFR also exerts far reaching influence over the U.S. government.



    Tony Cartalucci at landdestroyer blog breaks down the fact that every single leading player in both the neocon infested Bush administration and the “change” gang under Barrack Obama is a CFR luminary. Cartalucci also provides further stunning research relating to Cordoba House and its CFR Imam, which breaks down as follows.

  • JacqueMehoff

    I'm not sure Vito Fossella is an American name? doesn't sound American to me. should he be taking care of his other child? today is the first day of school.

  • JenChungsBaby

    Park Place is "hollowed" and sacred ground? I wish these idiots would just define already the boundaries of their sacred cow [errr, ground].



    Is Murray Street sacred? How about Chambers? What if I'm standing at the northwest corner of Duane and Trinity? Is that sacred too? Where does it end?

  • robingee

    The corner of 8th Ave and 36th street is sacred because that's where I broke up with my boyfriend. No Dunkin Donuts! Boycott!

  • robingee

    How's about if they remove the Prayer Room? Then what will be wrong with it? A swimming pool??? HOW DARE THEY!

  • JenChungsBaby

    They're going to replace the Prayer Room with a Champagne Room, just for Vito Fosella.

  • glennQNYC

    I can't wait to hear the mosque advocates stand behind the Florida church's right to burn Korans on 9/11 this year.

  • robingee

    Why can you "not wait" to hear? Are you so very excited about it? I for one am wondering how the Righties will react seeing as how they will be rah-rah burn the book yet it may endanger the troops so it's a catch-22 in the regard. It will be interesting but it's not like "I can't wait!" to hear about it.



    They have the right to burn a book, but it's hateful and stupid. Building a community center is not hateful and stupid.

  • Peter

    Well I don't know if I'm a mosque "advocate", but I certainly support their right to build it.



    And yes, the Florida church has a right to burn Korans - even though I agree with General Petraeus, that it probably endangers our troops.



    But hey, churches used to burn Jews and other heretics, so I guess this counts as some kind of progress. Why don't they go back to burning Beatles records?



    Peter

    inklake

  • tsk_tsk_tsk

    "Hollowed ground," eh? We have a responsibility to ensure that Ground Zero remains hollow? LOLZ

  • ANGRYGOD11

    It seems Vito Fossella would be the dumbest person to comment on this matter, but he would be the perfect idiot to drunk drive into Muslim Center construction site. Then one of his baby mommas could bail him out.

  • TimSPC
    Building that mosque there is like the Mafia building their headquarters next to the Police Headquarters."

    No, it's not, stupid. It would be like building an Italian-American community center next to police headquarters, which would be perfectly reasonable.
  • mistermarkdavis

    I would compare it to building a church in a country that constitutionally guarantees freedom of religion.

  • whitecastlerock

    I thought the vow of marriage was a "sacred" one-clearly Fosella didn't take too seriously...

  • harrisgraber

    So the GOP is trying to hold all Muslims responsible for the act of a handful of maniacs on 9/11. What really bothers me is that people buy into that horse manure. Also, once again, it's not a mosque! That's another GOP lie. They'll get elected by lying, but that's because people are stupid (see: The Dunning-Kruger Effect).

  • John L

    Wow. I just saw that video and that's incredible.

    This would be sad if it wasn't so dangerous.

  • JacqueMehoff

    I need to buy stock in the folding chair industry. if there's going to be more protest rallies. it appears they can't stand for long amounts of time.

  • robingee

    More money to be made going there and selling them to the Doughy Masses. Sam Seder has video of a man (one of the only black people at Glenn Beck's rally) selling Don't Tread On Me flags and making a mint. Dude said he wouldn't even be there if not for the chance to make a few bucks.

  • sharpshoota

    These losers have absolutely no shame. Using 9/11 to worm their way back into politics after resigning due to their own indiscretions. Loser guidos. Bensonhurst baby!

  • JacqueMehoff

    like I said in another post, yesterday must have been 9/11 "mosque" day, they were all out.

    it's the pre-fight for the big day next saturday.

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