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http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/08/23/2740573/jcc-leader-advising-couple-behind-islamic-center
JCC leader advising couple behind Islamic center
August 23, 2010
NEW YORK (JTA) -- The head of the Manhattan JCC is advising the effort to build an Islamic cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero and is calling on Jewish and Christian institutions to accept the couple behind the project.
Rabbi Joy Levitt, executive director of the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, discussed her institution’s connection to the project in an appearance Sunday on ABC’s This Week With Christiane Amanpour. Levitt appeared with Daisy Khan, the wife of Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, who is the religious leader associated with the controversial project, which will include a mosque.
“The JCC has invited Daisy and the imam to come speak at the JCC in September, and I hope that we'll be able to do that. They've certainly accepted our offer, and I hope that JCCs and other community centers in the Christian and Jewish community and in the secular world will come to do that, because clearly what this whole controversy has unleashed is a tremendous amount of misinformation, lack of knowledge about Islam that we need to address.”
Levitt confirmed that the JCC has been advising Khan and Rauf. “Well, we got a call from Daisy when they began to think about this project, and said we want to build an MCC just like the JCC,” Levitt said.
Many Republican lawmakers and several Democratic ones, a slew of conservative pundits and some people who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 attacks oppose the project, saying that opening a mosque so close to Ground Zero is a slap in the face to those that died there and their families. Some of the opponents also argue that the symbolic location of the project will embolden anti-American Islamic forces.
Khan said that when she and her husband begin to raise money for the estimated $100 million project, they will be seeking more advice from Levitt and the JCC.
“Well, this is where my counselor on my right is helping us, because our funding is going to be pretty much follow the same way that JCC got its fund-raising,” Khan said. “First, we have to develop a board. Then the board is going to have a financial committee, fund-raising committee that will be in charge of the fundraising.”
Many critics of the project express concern that the money to pay for the Islamic cultural center might come from overseas sources with ties to terrorism. Khan said that she and her husband have pledged to work with U.S. authorities to alleviate such concerns.
In the interview, Levitt slammed former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- one of the most prominent critics of the project -- for comparing the project to Nazis putting up a site next to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. She also invoked periods in early American history, when some colonies outlawed the building of synagogues.
video of them with christian amanpour
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/debating-ground-islamic-center-11455250&tab=9482930§ion=1206874&playlist=11455556
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Let's not start talking about building Synagogues, Churches and animalfriendly pigfarms in muslimcountries, now shall we.
All muslims should be quarantined and sterilized and the remains send into space or put in a barrel of anti-matter.
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Let's not start talking about building Synagogues, Churches and animalfriendly pigfarms in muslimcountries, now shall we.
All muslims should be quarantined and sterilized and the remains send into space or put in a barrel of anti-matter.
A barrel of anti matter would be interesting it would be scientific
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The JCC members need to be sterilized more than any Muzzies.
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The JCC members need to be sterilized more than any Muzzies.
True
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The JCC are a bunch of self-hating traitorous scum!!!
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JCC: Feck yu!
We should have known diaper-heads would be too stupid to put up such a fight.
What the hell are these @$$holes trying to prove?
Those muslim pigs would soon turn around and stab these two Jews in the arse.
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Galut mentality insanity. Disgusting, revolting, angering, but also pitiable. Baruch HaShem for the strength He gives proud Jews to fight off Diaspora Stockholm syndrome [may He grant it to those traitorous Jews who still suffer from self-hatred and lack of Hadar Yisroel; let their eyes be opened].
"lack of understanding about Islam"? An Islamophobe is defined as, "one who has learned what Islam is.". Islam is to blame for the phobe.
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Galut mentality insanity. Disgusting, revolting, angering, but also pitiable. Baruch HaShem for the strength He gives proud Jews to fight off Diaspora Stockholm syndrome [may He grant it to those traitorous Jews who still suffer from self-hatred and lack of Hadar Yisroel; let their eyes be opened].
"lack of understanding about Islam"? An Islamophobe is defined as, "one who has learned what Islam is.". Islam is to blame for the phobe.
This is very true... The more a person learns about the atrocities of Islam the more they hate Islam... I find it laughable that they think those who dislike Islam have a lack of understanding. The more I learned about it the more I understood how evil it is..
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I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not.
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disgusting I bet this rabbi supports gay marriage as well
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disgusting I bet this rabbi supports gay marriage as well
hardly rabbis they're reconstructionists more like rabbits
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Jew and Jewess brains behind 9/11 mosque >> Chances are there that some people may see a Zionist conspiracy behind this.
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Jew and Jewess brains behind 9/11 mosque >> Chances are there that some people may see a Zionist conspiracy behind this.
True liberal Jews are always up to nefarious behavior
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Jew and Jewess brains behind 9/11 mosque >> Chances are there that some people may see a Zionist conspiracy behind this.
True liberal Jews are always up to nefarious behavior
This is terrible, because NOW, these libo-rat "Jews" have turned good righteous gentiles and Christians against us. They are evil and should die, and we should pray for their deaths, and I am SERIOUS.
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Re: "This is terrible, because NOW, these libo-rat "Jews" have turned good righteous gentiles and Christians against us. They are evil and should die, and we should pray for their deaths, and I am SERIOUS. "
Don't worry.
If you own a gun and learned some martial arts you will be safe and secure.
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Re: "This is terrible, because NOW, these libo-rat "Jews" have turned good righteous gentiles and Christians against us. They are evil and should die, and we should pray for their deaths, and I am SERIOUS. "
Don't worry.
If you own a gun and learned some martial arts you will be safe and secure.
This is true Police have no obligation to protect every individual just the general public