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Imam Rauf Accused of Being a Slumlord by NJ Town

(Sept. 14) -- Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is in some hot water today that's shockingly unrelated to Park51, aka the ground zero mosque, formerly known as Cordoba House. The town of Union City, N.J., filed a lawsuit today against the imam, charging he is a terrible, law-breaking slumlord, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. Rauf...

Imam 'Exploring All Options' on Islamic Center Near Ground Zero

NEW YORK (Sept. 13) -- The imam leading the effort to build an Islamic community center near the site of the World Trade Center said today he has not ruled out moving the project. "We are exploring all options as we speak right now and we are working to what will be a solution, God willing, that will resolve this crisis,...

Donald Trump Tries, Fails to Buy 'Ground Zero Mosque'

(Sept. 9) -- He can't fire the so-called ground zero mosque, after all. Donald Trump's publicist announced today that the real estate magnate and television reality-show host was prepared to buy out the controlling investor in the controversial Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan that has become commonly known as...

Florida Pastor May Reconsider Cancellation of Quran Burning

(Sept. 9) -- A Christian pastor today canceled his controversial plan to burn copies of the Quran, saying he had received a "sign from God" when a Muslim cleric agreed to move an Islamic center planned for a site near ground zero in New York. But the cleric said there was no such deal, and the preacher later said he was...

Imam: Moving NY Mosque Could Spark Violent Backlash

NEW YORK (Sept. 9) -- The imam behind a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero cautioned Wednesday that moving the facility could cause a violent backlash from Muslim extremists and endanger national security. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told CNN that the discourse surrounding the center has become so...

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05/30/12 Pamela Geller, Weekly WND Column, Defending the West... Source: Atlas Shrugs A couple of weeks back I excoriated Bill O'Reilly for brownnosing the Ground Zero mosqueteer radical Rauf (if you missed that, go here ).
05/16/12 Pamela Geller, Weekly WND Column, Defending the West... Source: Atlas Shrugs My weekly column, Defending the West, over at WND is up.
05/09/12 Apple is taking a bruising in Washington D.C. as... Source: MacDailyNews "In the first three months of this year, Google and Microsoft spent a little more than $7 million on lobbying and related federal activities combined," Rauf and Allen write.
05/01/12 Al-Qaeda commander's guide to beating MI5 Source: Telegraph - London - UK In order to throw the security services off their scent, they pretended to be "un-Islamic" by going to the cinema and joking loudly to each other, he wrote.

Background on feisal abdul rauf

Feisal Abdul Rauf (, born 1948) is an American Sufi imam, author, and activist whose stated goal is to improve relations between the Muslim world and the West.

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