Is the Ground Zero Mosque back? According to Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer (who helped get it nixed almost a decade ago), a Muslim “cultural center” is once again in the works just a few feet from where their coreligionists killed 3,000 people and left a smoking crater. The principal evidence is a sentence at the end of a report on a neighboring property:
Construction has also yet to begin on 51 Park Place, which is slated to become a 71-foot-tall, 16,000-square-foot Islamic cultural center.
On the other hand, the developer – Sharif El-Gamal – is said to be debt-riddled, with $10 million in unpaid bills and crews no longer prepared to swallow the assurance that the check’s in the mail.
If that’s the only obstacle, then the mosque will be built, albeit after a cash injection from some obliging Saudi or Emirati. The mosque will rise because what started on September 12th 2001 as a politic euphemism – “the war on terror” – has become a form of self-castration: unless you’re flying a plane into a skyscraper or riding your rental vehicle up onto the sidewalk, almost any other Islamic provocation is not only unobjectionable but has to be actively encouraged. That, after all, is how it went last time round. Recall that both the President of the United States and the Mayor of New York City were all in favor of the Ground Zero Mosque. From my book After America:
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Come’on folks. New York has already permitted Muslims to secede from American law and implement Sharia law in the city. Heck they’ve formed their own Muslim Police Force complete with their own look a like patrol cars. Complete with uniformed thugs who stop and threaten or even smack around New Yorkers who they catch violating 7th century Islamic Sharia Law. In America. On public streets.
Erect a ‘Victory over the infidels Monument’…. just don’t call it that. Call it a cultural centre and build it practically on top of 3,000 figurative innocent civilian graves. If constructed at this location another victory over the hated infidels will celebrated across the Muslim world.
Meanwhile politicians knees tremble and the NYPD fumes.