Lawsuit alleges Ground-Zero Mosque's Imam Rauf Scammed Donors to Finance Lavish Lifestyle

Democracy Broadcasting has published original video news stories regarding Imam Feisel Rauf's Ground Zero Mosque project over it's history

9/11 first-responder's awe - and shock upon return to Ground Zero site

On eve of Obama's Ground Zero victory appearance, protestors in L.A. challenge Ground Zero Mosque Imam Feisal Rauf / Reza Aslan's 'moderate Islam' show as stealth-jihad to mollify West into socio-political deference to Islam 5/5/11

and from the UCLA where he appeared

Jihadist whistleblowers, Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem, reveal 'Cultural Jihad' more effective than terrorism 5/09

Now, Pamela Geller reports from the Jewish Voice of NY that:

Lawsuit: Ground Zero Mosquesteer Imam Rauf Scammed Donors to Finance Lavish Lifestyle

The New York Daily News reported on Tuesday, February 5, that “Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, founder and CEO of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, is being accused of swiping donation money intended for the ‘Ground Zero’ mosque to enjoy a lavish lifestyle.”
Regular readers of my website AtlasShrugs.com will not be surprised at this at all. We are proven right again and again, although the media never admits this. I wrote this in October 2010: 

In a piece in Forbes late last year (right before the Ground Zero mosque was announced, Imam and slumlord Rauf extols the riches of fine living. Couture! Sports cars! Cuisine! And the world’s finest prayer rugs (of course). This should solve the riddle of where our two million in taxpayer dollars were going, along with the million from the Dutch government, and his funding from Osama Bin Laden/Al Qaeda-linked Saudi corporation XENEL not to mention our funding his Middle East junkets. 

While the tenants in Ground Zero mosque imam’s slums in New Jersey suffer, Imam Rauf enjoys the finest offerings money can buy. Just last week, Rauf was summoned back to court (he didn’t show, of course) as he was cited with more than 200 housing and health code violations over the past two months. A couple of months ago Union City filed suit against Rauf.
Now it comes out that this sinister Islamic supremacist imam was financing this lavish lifestyle not just by ripping off his slum tenants and our taxpayer dollars, but by stealing from Ground Zero mega-mosque donors as well.

9/11 first-responder's awe - and shock upon return to Ground Zero site

9/11 first-responder to the World Trade Center, Jim LaPenna, returns to Ground Zero 10-years after he participated in rescue & recovery of WTC victims. He was one of the 5 people who rescued the two Port Authority Policemen who were trapped in the South Tower.

Mr. LaPenna has endured health impairments to his capacities as a result of exposure to the 9/11 ruins. He is welcomed by US Marine Corporal Sam Dillon, who came to dedicate his Purple Heart to 9/11 victims & first-responders. He takes us on a quick walk to the site of the proposed mosque at Ground Zero- and discovers that it has been approved and is functioning daily (and Mr. LaPenna explains his reaction to learning that).

On eve of Obama's Ground Zero victory appearance, protestors in L.A. challenge Ground Zero Mosque Imam Feisal Rauf / Reza Aslan's 'moderate Islam' show as stealth-jihad to mollify West into socio-political deference to Islam

Hammer Lectures at UCLA presented Imam Feisal Rauf of the Ground Zero Mosque controversy, May 4th 2011. A protest of Imam Rauf's professing his intentions as 'moderate' - was staged by Act for America's Shari Goodman and representatives of Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA) and the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI). Several counter-jihadists alleged the Imam's taqiya / jihadist deceptiveness, such as Z.O.A. West Executive Director Shelley Ventura-Cohen. Two idealistic Jewish liberals from Pasadena argued that liberal Jews believe Imam Rauf's professing himself a moderate Muslim. Univ of Calif Irvine adjunct lecturer, Gary Fouse, attempts to edify the liberals of the nature and tactics of Islamist imperialists in America.



Stealth Islamic supremacist summit: Ground Zero mosque Imam Rauf, Reza Aslan speak at UCLA by Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch.org

The slick and smug imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, former front man and continuing board member for the Ground Zero mosque project, and the posturing adolescent Reza Aslan, appeared together last night at UCLA. It was a revealing harmonic convergence of stealth Islamic supremacists.

Dishonesty and disingenuousness are the golden threads running through the careers and public statements of both Rauf and Aslan. Rauf is the self-proclaimed "man of peace" who has won such renown as a "moderate" that both Bush and Obama sent him to Muslim countries on goodwill missions. But as Pamela Geller has explained:

It is clear that Rauf and other mosque leaders are not as moderate as they claim to be. Rauf has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood...The Muslim Brotherhood is dedicated, according to a captured internal document, to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.” Rauf’s book What’s Right with Islam says on the copyright page that “this edition was made possible through a joint effort of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and the office of Interfaith and Community Alliance of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Funding for this project was provided by IIIT.” Both IIIT and ISNA are Muslim Brotherhood fronts, and ISNA was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case.

The Arabic translation of Rauf’s book What's Right with Islam is disturbingly entitled  A Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the Heart of Post-9/11 America.  This indicates that he has planned for years to spread Islam and Sharia from the site of the 9/11 attacks -- belying his more recent claims that he intends the mosque to be a center for reconciliation and peace.

He has also been completely dishonest about the mosque project itself. Now it is a community center nowhere near Ground Zero, but when it was initially announced Rauf was forthright, saying: “New York is the capital of the world, and this location close to 9/11 is iconic.”   That statement has now been scrubbed from the online version of the New York Times article in which it initially appeared.

Dennis Miller opines about the Ground Zero Mosque in his latest HBO special:

Free speech experts question handling of Terry Jones protest

By J. Patrick Pepper Press & Guide Newspapers 21 April- DEARBORN — Pastor Terry Jones might be unwelcome here but legal and civil rights experts say he should have an opportunity to speak when and where he wants.

“The guarantee of religions freedom for all and the fundamental American right to protest are both essential elements of the First Amendment and they should be honored equally by the city of Dearborn,” said Rana Elmir, communications director for the American Civil Liberties Union Michigan.



City officials on Wednesday denied him a permit for the protest and this afternoon Jones is due in 19th District Court for a hearing on a verified complaint by the Wayne County prosecutor. The complaint seeks to make Jones post a peace bond, which is cash or surety deposited by a defendant to guarantee that they would not bother or threaten another person. If the terms of the bond are violated it is forfeited and the defendant risks arrest.

Peace bonds are requested relatively infrequently.

“We are deeply concerned by the proposal to require Rev. Jones to post a peace bond,” said Elmir. “As reprehensible as his beliefs may be, we believe this is an unconstitutional attempt to limit his unpopular speech.”

Government authorities point to two main reasons for the tack they have taken.

First are questions of accesibiliy with the site where Jones want to protest. The only public property near Islamic Center is a right-of-way separating Ford Road and Altar Road, the street Islamic Center is located on. Altar Road is a limited-access drive that is also home to four Christian churches that will be offering Good Friday worship services at various points throughout the day.

And although Jones only listed a handful of people who would be joining him on his permit request, city officials said they will not allow the expected gaggle of media and counter protesters to prevent parishioners from attending services

Pat Condell video: "The purpose of the mosque at Ground-Zero is to rub 9/11 in America's face"

Pat Condell's website

http://www.patcondell.net/

Mischief in Manhattan
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Mischief+Manhattan/3370303/story.html#ixzz0wcZNOGAS

Ground Zero Muslim center may get public financing
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67Q5BW20100827

Muslim Brotherhood connection to the mosque?
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/545180/201008261900/Mosques-Saudi-Patron.aspx

Ground Zero mosque's Muslim opponents
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2131/the-ground-zero-mosques-muslim-opponents

Muslim opponent of mosque reports threat
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/08/17/15053976.html

Bloomberg makes Dubai a hub
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081029/BUSINESS/302158245/1005

Bloomberg's office in Dubai to expand its activities
http://www.dubaichronicle.com/business/media/bloombergs-office-in-dubai-to-expand-its-activities-14826

Mosque developer. Where did he get the money?
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-profiles-sharif-el-gamal-developer-of-ground-zero-mosque/

Christopher Hitchens on the imam's support for the Iranian theocracy.
http://www.slate.com/id/2264770/

An Iranian connection to the mosque?
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/an-iranian-connection-to-the-cordoba-house-ground-zero-mosque/

Imam won't condemn suicide bombing
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-robinson/ground-zero-mosque-leader_b_695861.html

Imam boasts "Obama's historic Egypt speech came from me"
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010082511451/us/islam-in-america/911-mosque-imam-boastsobamas-historic-speech-in-egypt-came-from-me.html

President Obama's Ramadan message
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/08/obama-ramadan-message.html

Speaker Pelosi extends government censorship about Islam
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/speaker-pelosi-extends-government-censorship-to-the-public-101366259.html

Sam Harris - Silence is not moderation
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/sam_harris/2010/08/silence_is_not_moderation.html

Journalists have bad case of 'Americaphobia'
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/08/27/dan-gainor-ground-zero-mosque-islam-american-associated-press-journalism/

Muslims Against Sharia
http://www.reformislam.org/

Woman Against Shariah
http://www.womenagainstshariah.com/

PETITIONS AGAINST THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop911mosque/
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PETITION AGAINST SHARIA LAW IN BRITAIN
‪http://onelawforallpetition.com/onelaw/onela300.php?nr=40155035

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On anniversary of D-Day, thousands protest NYC's planned Ground Zero Mosque near WTC site

Ground Zero Mosque is named Cordoba House as a symbol of Muslim conquest of America

Robert Spencer, co-founder of Stop the Islamization of America, speaks at a protest that they organized against the building of a mega-Mosque 600-feet from Ground Zero.  Atlas Shrugs claims that close to 5,000 people of every race, creed, color and religion showed up.

British contra-jihad commentator, Pat Condell, vlogs: "The Ground Zero Mosque on conquered sacred ground is what Islam has always done to assert its supremacy - and that is what's happening here. Once it's built, it will be a permanent affront to all Americans. It will be a major bridgehead in the ongoing stealth Jihad. (Allowing) it will confirm what they've already suspected - that America is a decadent country, crippled by political-correctness, confused and guilt-ridden, with no backbone and no pride."