Three Card Monte at Ground Zero
The caption for this photo: One of the oldest cons in the world, here being run just outside the Paris flea market. One of the black discs has a white spot under it, but you'll never find it. The thickness of the discs seems to make the throw harder than with the usual playing cards. He was good.
In a previous article I wrote that we saw three-card monte played with skill by Yasser Arafat who would flash the peace card in front of the UN while in reality he dealt out death and destruction.
Now we see the game played with skill by the Ground Zero Mosque imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, the recently-revealed tax fraudster, terrorist supporter, and agent provocateur.
In 1998 Rauf and his phony American Sufi Muslim Association claimed the group had an established place of worship at 201 W. 85th St. in New York, a 17-floor apartment building with a supposed prayer center for between 450 and 500 daily worshipers. The problem: the building that has no space to hold that many people (1).
Of course we have many non-Muslim tax fraudsters in the US, but this falls under the obvious al taqiyya (Muslim deception against infidels) meant to exploit our system for the sole purpose of overthrowing it.
Here is Imam Rauf's three card monte play:
- Gets tax exempt status for a mosque where there is no mosque.
- Pretends that the Ground Zero building will include separate prayer spaces for "Muslims, Christians, Jews and men and women of other faiths." Yeah, right. He hasn't once fulfilled to put in a prayer space for Muslims, let alone space for infidels.
- Says things like, "So we need right now to combat the radical voices. That's the only way we can win this struggle, and establish a peaceful world order...." (2) Yet he refuses to condemn Hamas or other terrorist groups (3).
So what's under the shell? A typical arrogant Muslim supporter of terror demanding accommodation to Islamic supremacy; an Imam of a mosque that isn't there; a tax-fraudster? Doesn't matter which we pick, we are all losers if we let him play his game.
ENDNOTES
(1):
The Investigative Project on Terrorism, 1 Sep 2010, Questions Raised About Rauf's Nonexistent Mosque
The federal government considers the Muslim group founded by Ground Zero Mosque leader Feisal Abdul Rauf to be a tax-exempt church. But federal records show the group obtained that status by claiming to hold prayer services for up to 500 people in a Manhattan apartment building that has no space to hold that many people.
The application for tax exempt status from the American Sufi Muslim Association (ASMA) in 1998 claimed the group had an established place of worship at 201 W. 85th St. in New York. That is a 17-floor apartment building.
The 1998 tax filing, called a 1023 form, is required for any institution that wants to be considered a religious house of worship and therefore exempt from taxation. In the filing, Rauf is identified as ASMA's founder. The application said the group was already operating as a prayer center for between 450 and 500 daily worshipers.
However, a review of the building and real estate records indicates there is nowhere in the building to house that many congregants. ASMA lists its office address as 201 W. 85th St., Apt. 10E on the tax form, while it cites only the building address as its location for prayer services.
ASMA claimed to hold prayer services in
this Manhattan apartment building, which
has no space for group activity.The building has apartments only and no public spaces, such as a conference or a board room, to accommodate 450 people. Apartment 10E, building records show, is a one-bedroom apartment with about 800 square feet of living space. In the 1997 incorporation records filed with the state of New York, Rauf's wife, Daisy Khan, was named as an ASMA director living at that address.
But when ASMA filed for its church status with the IRS, Khan was no longer listed as a director. Instead, Rauf signed the form that said ASMA's address was the same as Khan's apartment – 201 W. 85th St., Apt. 10E.
(2):
NY Post, 30 Aug 2010, Ground Zero mosque imam says opposition linked to Nov. election
Rauf compared the current struggles facing American Muslims to past religious-based prejudices and attacks against other groups, including Jews and Roman Catholic immigrants.
"And this is why it is important, the issue of radicalism is a threat to all of us," he was quoted as saying. "We have radicals in the Muslim world and we have radicals in the other faith traditions as well."
He said extremists from all faiths "feed off each other and need each other to sustain themselves."
"So we need right now to combat the radical voices. That's the only way we can win this struggle, and establish a peaceful world order, which is what everybody wants and everybody needs," he told the newspaper.
(3):
World Net Daily, 'Ground Zero' imam makes stunning terror comments
The imam behind a proposal to build a 13-story Islamic cultural center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks refuses to condemn violent jihad groups as terrorists.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, head of the Cordoba Initiative, which seeks to construct the massive center, repeatedly refused on-air to affirm the U.S. designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization or call the Muslim Brotherhood extremists.
The Brotherhood openly seeks to spread Islam around the world, while Hamas is committed to Israel's destruction and is responsible for scores of suicide bombings, shootings and rocket attacks aimed at Jewish civilian population centers.
Rauf was speaking in a live interview with WND senior reporter Aaron Klein, who hosts a show on New York's WABC Radio.
Klein asked Rauf on his show whether the imam agrees with the State Department's designation of Hamas as a terrorist organization.
"I'm not a politician," replied Rauf. "I try to avoid the issues. The issue of terrorism is a very complex question. ... I'm a bridge builder. I define my work as a bridge builder. I do not want to be placed, nor do I accept to be placed in a position of being put in a position where I am the target of one side or another."
