Ground Zero mosque spokesman to Gutfeld: Your gay bar won’t build dialogue because it doesn’t consider our sensibilities

very interesting

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison) [NYSE:ED] unveiled a massive new substation complex in the Bronx as part of the company’s overall building program to help meet the energy needs of 9 million New Yorkers.

So Con Edison no longer has 9 million New Yorkers requiring energy?
Did Obama Green Power influence Con Edison to give up business there?

At least David Frum had the courtesy to thank Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein in the New York Post for the information.

I’m not so sure about Frum’s optimism that there is no possible Islamic funding. Islamic grassroots, if no group of Jihadists, would cough up for the mosque. It would simply be too convenient for terrorists to have free play in America after building that mosque. And the American politicians promoting it have all been paid off to play PC nice with Muslim sensitivities. After all, they’re the only ones that matter.

The mosque developers are three Arab-American businessmen: Sharif and Sammy el-Gamal and Nour Moussa. They have a partner in Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Muslim writer and publicist who does most of the talking. But the money and credit pledged to the project belong to the company owned by Moussa and the el-Gamals, Soho Properties.

Soho Properties has paid some $5 million in cash to buy the Burlington Coat Factory building, a building that yields no income. They are paying rent to hold rights to the Con Ed building, which also yields no income. All of this in the midst of the worst commercial property slump in memory, in an area of New York with a very uncertain economic future. And these are not super-rich guys: Sharif el-Gamal lives in an Upper West Side apartment purchased in 2007 for $1 million. Click here to read what $1 million bought in Manhattan before the crash.

You can see why the Gamal-Moussa team would be dazzled by the notion that philanthropists in the Persian Gulf might donate $100 million to raise a grand gleaming Islamic center in lower Manhattan. You can tuck a lot of development fees into a $100 million project. And if not a mosque … what else do you do with their two loser properties on Park Place?

Is NYC property value around ground zero hopeless?

Where are those businesses that worked from within the World Trade Center Twin Towers now operating? No longer in NYC? No longer existing?

maverick muse on August 10, 2010 at 5:54 PM

Govt is in charge of building WTC 2. Private industry is in charge of building the mosque.

angryed on August 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM

That’s even more infuriating. Why hasn’t this been made into more of an issue.

Esthier on August 10, 2010 at 5:04 PM

Exactly.

Though they take bribes, politicians do not make effective points either for public discussion to achieve a positive end.

WE direct the dialogue by demanding their attention. Elections are approaching.

maverick muse on August 10, 2010 at 6:07 PM

Bar Name… West END Boys.

Think about this. What direction do they turn to get on their knees for Mecca? What direction is their butt pu in the air?

West END Boys is perfect.

Upinak wins. Good luck contacting Gutfeld with the suggestion.

maverick muse on August 10, 2010 at 6:09 PM