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He Should Avoid America, Not Just NYC!!!!!
September 20th, 2010
The imam behind the proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero is largely avoiding New York City because of security concerns and is receiving protection from the New York Police Department, according to those close to the imam.
"There's just a lot of crazies and that's why he has police protection from the NYPD," the Rev. James Parks Morton said Monday of his friend Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.
"I know that he's being guarded, that he's not been staying in the usual places, that he's not working from his office and that he's concerned for his safety," said another friend of the imam's, Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon, in an interview Sunday night.
"He's staying in an undisclosed location, as they call it," said Matalon, a rabbi at B'nai Jeshurun on New York's Upper West Side.
The New York City Police Department did not respond to requests for comment.
Asked whether the FBI was investigating threats against Rauf, New York field office spokesman Bob Margolin declined to comment.
A media representative for Rauf, Seth Faison, would not comment on any security concerns.
Morton, former dean of New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, said the imam was mostly avoiding New York, where he typically works, since returning from a State Department trip to the Middle East two weeks ago.
Morton has known Rauf and his family since the 1960s and works in the same office building as Rauf on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Rauf did not attend a Monday morning press conference at Park51, the site of the proposed Islamic center. Zaheer Uddin, Executive Director of the Islamic Leadership Council of New York, said security concerns kept the imam away.
Another Rauf associate, Chloe Breyer, said the imam skipped a New York board meeting of her group, the Interfaith Center of New York, on Thursday. Rauf is a vice chair on center's board.
"He is laying low," Breyer said of Rauf Monday. "He isn't coming into New York."
Rauf was traveling in the Middle East on a U.S. State Department sponsored trip for much of August, returning to the U.S. on September 5.
Video: Former President Jimmy Carter says the controversial Islamic center should be built
He appeared at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York last Monday for a speech and question-and-answer session about the controversy over his proposed Islamic center.
Saying America has let extremists "hijack the agenda," the imam said at the forum that he wants to create a platform where the voice of moderate Muslims can be amplified.
"We come together at a time of great crisis and danger," he said. "What began as a dispute over a community center in lower Manhattan has spawned and grown into a much larger controversy about the relationship between my beloved religion and my beloved country, between Islam and America."
Thunder 
About Rauf
Rauf created this mess himself. He has no one to blame but himself.
He could have announced that there would be total transparency in the funding, and then followed through. He could have made it clear that a church and a synagogue would be invited to occupy the same structure and their representatives would sit on the board of directors. He could have commissioned a huge bronze memorial plaque for the front of the Mosque condemning the actions of the extremist Muslims who attacked the world trade center on 9.11.2001. He could have made it clear that he did not respect Hamas and Hezbollah for being involved in terrorist activities. He could have at least met with the NY governor when he was trying to find an alternate site. He could have at least been gracious to Donald Trump who tried to buy the property. He might have even moved the project a bit farther away from the 911 WTC site. He could have chosen an alternate name initially for the project, not one commemorating and even celebrating Islamic imperialism in Europe. He could have apologized for his cack-handed behavior. And done lots of other conciliatory things.
Instead, Rauf went on the attack, desperately and furiously playing the victimhood card and claiming that Sharia Law is completely compatible with US laws and claiming his opponents were Islamophobic and demanding "his rights" and descended into lobbing charges of bias and racism.
This all works to a certain point, but only so far. And only with a certain segment of the US population. And as Rauf has made this issue into more of a muddle, he has lost more and more support among the bulk of the US populace.
Even in that bastion of the left wing elite, drowning in potential dhimmitude and multicultural sensitivity, that populate New York City, his name and the project are being rejected by an overwhelming majority of the people.
The left wing media cluck-clucks about how stupid all the rubes and racists are that populate the US. But they forget, that the reason the US works is by most people following an unwritten social contract. People agree to live by the rule of law, and also lubricate social interactions with at least a modicum of decency and respect for each other's feelings.
Those who constantly demand "their rights" so they can ride roughshod over everyone else soon find out that after a few years, people get tired of it. And they get sort of cranky. And that is where good old Rauf and his collection of Muslim Brotherhood unindicted co-conspirators are headed. The land of cranky Yankees. After over 16,000 Muslim terrorist attacks and decades of huge demonstrations calling for the killing of all Americans and the imposition of Sharia Law worldwide by force, and countless other insults by Muslims, people are starting to get pissed off.
Now, these dirty Muzzies don't like it. They can't figure out why these easy-going Americans (and Europeans) are not quite as agreeable any more. At least not all of them.
Well ain't that just too goddamn bad?
Fuck you Rauf. And the camel you rode in on.
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