To The Members of the Landmarks Preservation Commission
Hon. Robert B. Tierney, Chair
Hon. Pablo E. Vengoechea, Vice Chair
Hon. Frederick Bland
Hon. Stephen Byrns
Hon. Diana Chapin
Hon. Joan Gerner
Hon. Roberta Brandes Gratz
Hon. Christopher Moore
Hon. Margery Perlmutter
Hon. Elizabeth Ryan
Hon. Roberta Washington
I send this letter to you, not as a complaint or as a rebuke, but as a message of sympathy. For months now citizen after citizen has paraded before you with documentation containing fact after fact detailing why this proposed mosque at 45 Park Place should not be built. I'm sure the commission sat quietly while everyone got their chance to speak their minds and respond to questions. I'm also certain that the commission asked questions of Imam Rauf...such as:
Why should a 13-story Islamic "community center and prayer space" be constructed a mere 600 feet from Ground Zero when there is already eight functioning mosques affiliated with Sunni and Shia Isalm? Other New York Burroughs have several more...so..why?
Where did the financial support for this Islamic Center come from?
Did the Commission ask if any financing came from Saudi Arabia? A country that is financing most of the new Islamic schools in America...did you ask that?
Is it true the Dutch government is contributing $1,290 Million dollars of Dutch taxpayer money to help finance this building? Weren't we told that all funding is to come from non-foreign donations? Maybe we mis-understood.
Did you ask these questions?
Did you ask Imam Rauf if he sympathizes with Hezbollah?
Did you ask Imam Rauf if he believes that the United States is responsible for 9/11? Did you know that he is quoted as saying: "The United States policies were an accessory to the crime [9/11] that happened."
Did you ask if Imam Rauf supports Islamic ideology to convert the world to Islam, as is noted in the Quaran? Did you? If you didn't, you should have.
Did you listen to the people of New York stating their views and opinions and requests and demands that this "Islamic Center" NOT be built on Sacred Ground?
Did you not listen nor even care when the relatives of the 9/11 victims, Fathers, Sons, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers, Daughters...came before you and poured their hearts and souls out to you. Telling you to stop this travesty of injustice. This tribute to the murder of nearly 3000 people? Are you that callous to their grief?
Are you that insensitive?
Are you that Un-American?
Are you that ignorant?
Are you deaf?
No...we do not think the Commission is any of those things at all. But we do know what you really are...and that is SCARED. Yes, the members and supporters of the Land Preservation Commission are scared.
We believe you are scared to have your names read and be called RACISTS.
We believe you do not want to go on record as being called Islamaphobes.
We believe you feel the media will treat you as "that wonderful group that helped the small Islamic community bring a new culture center into the city, while fighting those brutal, anti-muslim thugs."
We believe you feel that Islam is serious when they make subtle threats and you do not want to be on the receiving end.
We believe in this day and age, its more fashionable to be a liberal sympathizers with an ideology that wishes to destroy our country and culture, then to stand with the vast majority of Americans wishing to live in peace and freedom.
We believe that you actually do not care how your fellow Americans feel at this time, because in years to come, everyone will forget and you will go on to bigger and better things. Never mind that you may have helped radical Islam secure a foothold in New York City.
So you go right on being scared.
We will go right on fighting one of the greatest evils ever to set foot upon the shores of this or any other country. An evil that removes the freedoms from the individual and places it in the grave.
Just know that we will never forget who you are, what you do, and why you did it.
Sincerely Yours,
BlackbootJack
Editor-in -Chief
The Infidel Task Force
www.infideltaskforce.webs.com
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Thank you, Jack! The letter is outstanding and I hope you will let us all know if and when you receive a response.
Bee Sting
