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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Remember, this is a zoning dispute also. A
rezone is required if the mosque is to be built.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>The rezone application and process should be
faith neutral; if the rezone would be proper for a Christian center,
it ought be proper for an Islamic center.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>However, the question remains: Is the
rezone proper for what is being proposed?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>w.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=whayman@roadrunner.com
href="mailto:whayman@roadrunner.com">whayman@roadrunner.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=nickgier@roadrunner.com
href="mailto:nickgier@roadrunner.com">nickgier@roadrunner.com</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:35
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Update on
Muslim Center in Lower Manhattan</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I hope the link works.<BR><BR>Warren Hayman<BR><BR>Ground Zero
outrage on Parallel Earth<BR><A
href="http://www.credoaction.com">www.credoaction.com</A><BR><BR>---- <A
href="mailto:nickgier@roadrunner.com">nickgier@roadrunner.com</A> wrote:
<BR>> Good Morning Visonaries,<BR>> <BR>> New information has been
pouring in about the NYC Muslim Center controversy. The most dramatic
revelations have to do with initial positive responses from Fox news
personalities and the moderate contents of Imam Rauf's highly acclaimed book,
published by Rupert Murdoch's HarperSanFrancisco.<BR>> <BR>> Additions
to my column, the edited version of which is attached:<BR>> <BR>> Rauf's
book "What’s Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West" was
picked as one of the best five books of 2004 by the Christian Science Monitor.
The book was published by HarperSanFrancisco, which is owned, along with Fox
News and the Wall Street Journal, by Rupert Murdoch. In a December, 2009
interview with Imam Rauf’s wife Daisy Khan on Fox News' "The O’Reilly Factor,"
Laura Ingraham had this to say about the plans for the cultural center: "I
can't find many people who really have a problem with it. I like what you're
trying to do." Fox News is now leading the charge against the project.<BR>>
<BR>> In "What’s Right with Islam" Rauf goes back to the beginnings of
Islam and shows how a fatal mistake was made by those who built autocratic
political institutions on a basic Abrahamic ethic shared with Judaism and
Christianity. Early Muslim government was based on elections, broad
deliberation (including women) and consensus, and religious pluralism. The
rule of force dramatically came into the play with the assassination of the
third caliph in A.D. 656, and a switch to hereditary rule, which as been the
norm in Muslim countries for centuries. Rauf believes that Islamic countries
should "recognize in the American form of governance a genuine substantive
workable expression and model of their centuries-old longing for the kingdom
of heaven on earth."<BR>> <BR>> I also added some material on a parallel
reaction against Catholics in American history, up do the Nixon-Kennedy
election in 1960:<BR>> <BR>> In announcing the decision not to preserve
the old building at 51 Park Place, Mayor Michael Bloomsberg--with the Statue
of Liberty as backdrop--reminded his audience that the early Dutch settlers
refused to grant Jews permission to build a synagogue, and that they had also
prohibited Quakers and Catholics from holding services. In the 19th Century
there were objections to the construction of Catholic churches, and some of
them (including some convents) were burned down. (One priest was tarred and
feathered by a mob.) Strong anti-Catholic sentiment flared up during the 1960
election with many people fearing that a president John F. Kennedy would mean
an alliance with the papacy.<BR>> <BR>> Finally, here is what Imam Rauf
said about the 9/11 attackers in 2006 on ABC News. Glen Beck was sitting
in on the conversation with Diane Sawyer and indicated how important it was to
have good moderate Muslims such as Rauf:<BR>> <BR>> "[Jihadist]
reactions are not at all called for by Islamic teaching. The teachings of
Islam are very similar to the teachings of Christianity, of loving the one God
and loving thy neighbor. These are the two common principles."<BR>>
<BR>> As Muslims and their places of worship are threatened all over the
country, I fear for the sanity of my country.<BR>> <BR>> Nick<BR>>
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