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Update on the Ground Zero Mosque

Posted: Jul 8, 2011

The original and controversial Imam Faisel Rauf and developer Sharif El Gamar parted ways awhile back. A new imam was brought on board but he didn't last long after making some rather embarrassing and provocative statements regarding homosexuality and Islam.

[Abdallah] Adhami, 44, said being gay was a 'painful trial' which comes as a result of past trauma.He said: 'An enormously overwhelming percentage of people struggle with homosexual feeling because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse at some point in their life. A small, tiny percentage of people are born with a natural inclination that they cannot explain. You find this in the animal kingdom at some level as well.'
Adhami also apparently said that people who leave Islam should go to jail!
Quite a homophobe!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...nal-abuse.html

It is also being reported that the developer Sharif El Gamal has been unable to raise very much money for the $100 million project . (IMO that could be due to the scrutiny donors know they will endure and they probably won't pass the smell test!)

So the good news is it looks highly possible that this mosque will never be built.

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the mosque is there - yas

[ In Reply To ..]
The mosque is there. People go there and pray every day, as they were doing long before the controversy. What may not be built is the community center, including the basketball court, the fitness center, culinary school, art exhibition hall, and child care services, that would serve ALL New Yorkers in the community. Good news, right?

Park51 mosque quietly makes progress - Update on your update.

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The smell test? Really?

Nine months since it dominated headlines and incited rallies at Ground Zero, the Park51 Islamic Cultural Center in Lower Manhattan is quietly moving closer towards becoming a reality. NPR spoke with developer Sharif El-Gamal, CEO of Soho Properties, who said the center has been building an advisory board and staff, has compiled a presentation for potential funders and applied for 501(c)3 tax-exempt status last November. Though ground is still far from being broken on a new building, the current structure is housing Arabic classes, Islamic prayer services, film showings and meetings between Shiites and Sunnis.

But learning from what Gamal called the "lots of mistakes" he made when announcing names of individual funders and imams, Gamal said he's keeping the new people involved in the project closer to the vest and does not want to get ahead of himself. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam initially associated with the center, is no longer involved with the project, which calls for a museum, a Sept. 11 memorial, a place for interfaith meetings, a library, an auditorium, a pool, wellness, fitness and sports centers, a culinary school, child care facilities and a restaurant above a ground-floor mosque. Gamal has already invested more than $2 million into the project, but a new building -- the first step in the transformation -- is still at least five years away, he said. Projected cost of the community center is around $100 million.

Sorry to burst the bubble.

http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/38634?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+trdnews+%28The+Real+Deal+-+New+York+Real+Estate+News%29&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner

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