Victory Mosque Funding And Muslim Extremists

After all this brouhaha, it seems that the Victory Mosque near ground zero may never get built. Why? Simply put, the sponsors have only raised $18,255 of the $100 million they need to complete the thing. By the way, that amount isn't even sufficient to make a down payment on the second half of the property... they already own the other half.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/41238.html

The Cordoba Initiative hasn’t begun fundraising yet for its $100 million goal. The group’s latest fundraising report with the State Attorney General’s office, from 2008, shows exactly $18,255 – not enough even for a down payment on the half of the site the group has yet to purchase.

The group also lacks even the most basic real estate essentials: no blueprint, architect, lobbyist or engineer — and now operates amid crushing negative publicity. The developers didn't line up advance support for the project from other religious leaders in the city, who could have risen to their defense with the press.

So completion of the mosque isn't a gimme, by any means.


Oh, and do you remember contentions by some of us "wackos" that the terrorist factions are behind this mosque to establish a victory monument on the site of the 9-11 attacks? Turns out we might not have been wrong...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Politics/islamic-center-backers-rule-taking-funds-saudi-arabia/story?id=11429998

The developers behind the Islamic center planned for a site near Ground Zero won't rule out accepting financing from the Mideast -- including from Saudi Arabia and Iran -- as they begin searching for $100 million needed to build the project.

If they are willing to accept money from terrorists and nations that sponsor terrorism, how are we to believe their claims that the goal of the mosque is to "build bridges?" And if those terrorists are willing to GIVE the money, what does that say about how THEY view the mosque?

The mosque is a bad idea because it celebrates the 9-11 attacks on America by Islamic terrorists. Period. If, in the face of overwhelming public opposition, they refuse to relocate the proposed mosque, then their true intentions become crystal clear. How can they "build bridges" and "promote healing" when the site of the proposed mosque INCREASES tension and animosity?

Time to give it up fellows, or at least proclaim your true intentions. Come on, man-up!