The Museum to Islam at Ground Zero
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The Museum to Islam at Ground Zero
The New York Times did a big write-up
on the latest developments on the now-scrapped Ground Zero mosque plan.
The notorious provocateur, Ground Zero mosque developer Sharif
el-Gamal, unveiled a new plan to build a three-story museum “dedicated
to exploring the faith of Islam.”
Oh, the irony. A museum to Islam on the site of the biggest and
bloodiest Islamic attack on a Western country is grotesque. One has to
wonder if one of the exhibits will be the landing gear that crashed
through the roof of that very building.
The good news is that the Ground Zero mosque is dead. And we should
take a moment to savor that, swish it around, and run it up and down our
tongue like an excellent pinot. Because it was a hell of a fight, and
despite the support of the president of the United States, New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and a hysterical mob media, it did not happen.
That was you. Over forty thousand people attended our
Ground Zero mosque protests on D-Day 2010 and September 11, 2010. The power of the people.
All of you who fought that 16-story mosquestrosity with us – kudos to
you. We fought back, and we won. I asked Andrew Breitbart to speak at
our 9/11 protest, and he was brilliant (
watch his video here). I am sure he is smiling from heaven.
Thirteen stories have been chopped off the latest Islamic supremacist
re-formulation of the Ground Zero mosque. That is a good thing. The
idea that devout Muslims would be looking down on hallowed ground was
ghastly and morbid. But a museum at Ground Zero dedicated to the glories
of Islam on the site of that catastrophic Islamic attack – that, too,
is obscene. All 19 Islamic terrorists uniformly declared that their
jihad was in the cause of Islam. Will el-Gamal showcase the last letters
of the 19 jihadists, mentioning Allah over 90 times?
Sharon Otterman, the writer of the
New York Times piece,
asked for my comments, but of course didn’t use any of them. Here is
what she didn’t want readers to see when she asked about Sharif
el-Gamal’s plans to build a museum to Islam at the site of the jihad
attacks at Ground Zero.
I believe that a center at Ground Zero studying Islamic history
might very well be helpful -- an in-depth look at 1,400 years of jihadi
wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements might
be the first honest approach to the utter devastation and mass
slaughter that led to the September 11 attacks. That’s the one thing
that has not been done, but I am not holding my breath. El-Gamal
certainly isn’t going to do it. Clearly this is more nonsense and denial
at a time when millions across the world are suffering under the boot
of sharia.
I am so very glad we succeeded and El-Gamal has scaled the project back to a mere 3 floors.
On a side note, do you know where is El-Gamal is getting the money?
Are you pursuing that as well? Or is this just a puff piece? The man
defaulted on not one, but two bank loans. He failed to pay rent to Con
Ed, part-owner of one of the buildings. They sued him and won. And
El-Gamal failed to pay the taxes owed on the building. On top of all
this, he was evicted from his Soho Properties offices for failure to pay
rent.
And yet he bought the two buildings that flank the proposed Ground
Zero site. Where is he getting the money? Have you asked him? Do you
intend to?
Yours in liberty,
Pamela Geller
The money is an important point. Remember, Sharif el-Gamal had the
unmitigated gall to apply for five million dollars in federal grants
from the federal 9/11 fund – monies set aside for the redevelopment of
lower Manhattan after the attacks of September 11
th jihad
attacks – to build his mosquestrosity. Had it not been for the ensuing
outrage and protest, he would have gotten it. Remember, it was the
Bloomberg administration that helped el-Gamal write the letters and fill
out the necessary paperwork to get city approval for the 16-story
mega-mosque at Ground Zero.
I wouldn’t be surprised if el-Gamal hasn’t applied for federal funds
to build his Islam Museum at Ground Zero. Would he wish to incur the
wrath of the American people yet again? More protests? Because I can
assure you, we will be there. Big time.
I suspect his museum will advance the mythical
narrative of Islamic propaganda. I bet el-Gamal intends to riff off
museum exhibits like “
1001 Muslim inventions”
that actually shed light on an important but little-noted weapon of the
Islamic propaganda machine in the U.S.: the whitewashing of the ghastly
Islamic present by creating a fictional glorious Islamic past.
Historical revisionism takes on a new life, as history is scrubbed and
manufactured Muslim myths are presented as fact. “Muslim inventions” is a
vicious euphemism for the ideas and inventions stolen from a conquered
people.
Let’s see a museum dedicated to that premise.
Robert Spencer said:
This structure may (or may not) be so different from the previous
15-story plan that it will be less likely to be taken in the Islamic
world as a triumphal mosque a la the Dome of the Rock, the Hagia Sophia
and the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, etc., but it is still a
spectacularly inappropriate idea for that location. If Sharif wants to
improve the image of Islam, a mosque celebrating its purported glories
at Ground Zero will not do the trick; only a concerted effort to reform
Islam and counter the jihadist narrative within Muslim communities will
accomplish that.
The exact words of the jihad hijackers:
“Many thanks to God, for his kind gesture, and choosing us to
perform the act of Jihad for his cause and to defend Islam and Muslims.
Therefore, killing you and fighting you, destroying you and terrorizing
you, responding back to your attacks, are all considered to be great
legitimate duty in our religion….We ask to be near to God, we fight you
and destroy you and terrorize you. The Jihad in god’s [sic] cause is a
great duty in our religion.” — The “9/11 Shura Council” (that’s
what they called themselves; they are the masterminds of the 9/11 plot:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin As-Shibh, Walid bin ‘Attash, Mustafa
Ahmed AI-Hawsawi, and ‘Ali ‘abd Al-’Aziz ‘Ali). (
Here)
“The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.” — Osama bin Laden’s letter to the American people, November 24, 2002 (
here).
“When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do
not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this
strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers. God said: ‘Strike above
the neck, and strike at all of their extremities.’ Know that the
gardens of paradise are waiting for you in all their beauty, and the
women of paradise are waiting, calling out, ‘Come hither, friend of
God.’ They have dressed in their most beautiful clothing.” — Mohammed Atta. The “Strike above the neck” quote is from the Qur’an, 47:4. (
Here)
It is time for a museum that educates Americans and all
freedom-loving peoples about the gravest threat the free world faces.
Perhaps we ought to start a kickstarter or crowdfunder campaign to build
a museum across the street that tells the truth about Islamic jihad and
its hundreds of millions of victims over the past 1,400 years until
today. From Khybar to Kandahar… truth has been the casualty of this holy
war.
Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Follow her on Twitter here. Like here on Facebook here.
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