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The news was buried under two dense paragraphs and five large photos in an article in New York YIMBY about a different project: “Construction has also yet to begin on 51 Park Place, which is slated to become a 71-foot-tall, 16,000-square-foot Islamic cultural center.”  The infamous Ground Zero Mosque project, a long-buried effort to build a triumphal mosque at the site of the worst jihad terror attack in American history, is back.

Construction has yet to begin, but it will: the shady developer behind the Ground Zero Mosque scheme, Sharif El-Gamal, has been working to build this sinister structure for years.

We defeated the Ground Zero Mosque project once before.  The 16-story mosque that El-Gamal initially planned to build there has not been built.  Our efforts in showing what an insult it was to the American people and to the victims of 9/11, and how many Muslims worldwide would inevitably view it as a triumphal mosque built on the site of a jihad attack, defeated it.  Tens of thousands of people came out for our rallies in lower Manhattan against this celebration of this 9/11 attacks, and El-Gamal was beaten in the court of public opinion.

It was a long battle.  President Obama announced his support for the mosque at an Iftar dinner, no less.  Then-mayor of New York City and current presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg supported the mosque as well, claiming hysterically that “if we don’t build it, the terrorists will win!”  The media actively campaigned for it — the elites in their increasingly fragile ivory towers relentlessly stumped for the Cordoba mosque (euphemistically called an Islamic center with a prayer space) for years.

And yet despite all this opposition and much more, the people stood up and fought the Ground Zero Mosque and won.  An army of Davids.

But that wasn’t the end of the story.  Crains New York reported on El-Gamal’s new project in 2015 in a story that demonstrated how the developer was hoping to sneak his triumphal mosque into existence: “Mr. El-Gamal’s Soho Properties has proposed a 667-foot condominium tower at lower Manhattan’s 45 Park Place.  The glass skyscraper, which has yet to break ground, will include at least 15 full-floor units of 3,200 to 3,700 square feet, and average prices higher than $3,000 a square foot, according to plans released to Bloomberg by the developer.”

That sounded normal enough.  But then the article added: “Adjacent to the tower, Soho Properties will build a public plaza connected to a three-story Islamic museum and prayer space.”  An Islamic prayer space is a mosque.  The article also said: “An Islamic museum ‘is just as much of an insult,’ Pamela Geller, a blogger and one of the center’s most vocal opponents, wrote in an email.  ‘It will be like having a museum touting the glories of the Japanese Empire at Pearl Harbor.'”

I think an Islamic museum at Ground Zero dedicated to the half-billion victims of jihadi wars, land appropriations, sharia, cultural annihilations, enslavements, and sharia enforcement is an excellent idea, but is that what Sharif El-Gamal had in mind?  Of course not.  And how did El-Gamal plan to finance this?  The answer was predictable.  The New York Post reported in May 2016 that “the developer of the failed Ground Zero Mosque has nailed down ‘Sharia-compliant financing’ for a new, luxury condominium tower and Islamic cultural museum on the same site, he and his banking partners said.”

Then in May 2017, the New York Times ran a story entitled “Condo Tower to Rise Where Muslim Community Center Was Proposed.”  The Times said that “45 Park Place, a 43-story condominium that will soon rise three blocks from the World Trade Center,” was “something of a consolation prize for the developer,” as it “replaces the developer’s 2010 plan to build a 15-story Islamic mosque and cultural center on this site, an idea that erupted into a national controversy and cable news network bonanza.”

In the last couple of years, there has been virtually no news about this “Islamic museum.”  But the New York YIMBY story shows that the project has been advancing under cover of darkness.  A 71-foot-tall structure is three stories high, as in the revised plans announced in 2015.

There is an important lesson to be learned here — and one we would be wise to adopt.  They never stop.  No matter how absolutely they lose, how many setbacks they suffer, they keep on pursuing their supremacist goals.

The Ground Zero Mosque project was and is a middle finger to the American people.  There has never been a mosque of reconciliation and healing built on the site of a jihadi attack.  Ever.  It is, on the other hand, an Islamic pattern to build triumphal mosques on the cherished sites of conquered lands.  History is riddled with triumphal mosques built on the sites of jihad attacks or appropriated from other religions: the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque on the site of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, and innumerable mosques built on the sites of Hindu temples that were demolished by Muslims all attest to that.

And now it looks as if Sharif El-Gamal is going to be able to build his own triumphal mosque at Ground Zero after all.

(Excerpt from American Thinker. Article by Pamela Geller.)

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Darrell Mordente
December 20, 2019

This is allowed to occur because Democrats control New York. Pray for heartfelt repentance and revival in this country. Only the Lord can save us with His mercy by prodding our consciences and changing us.

Dr. Alma Van Nice
December 20, 2019

Father, We stand together in prayer for the sanctity of our nation. We ask for discernment to pray and proclaim that every plan of the enemy to defile this land to be derailed and their monuments removed. Instead of a tribute to Islam at ground zero we will have a memorial park to honor the victims and a chapel based on the Christian heritage of our nation. God Most Holy One be honored in our land. Keep us watchful and diligent in prayer to glory of Your Son, Jesus our Lord. Amen.

Melissa
December 19, 2019

We can pray and pray, but ultimately God has to stop this by using those who have the power and muscle to stand strong. Remember, this is NYC, and NYC is a loss cause. A large portion have forgotten 9/11, the rest will fight but do not have enough strength nor power where it counts. A statue of Molech stands there already and no one stopped it. I hope God does use some to stop this travisty.

R Leimer
December 19, 2019

Lift up your heads, O you gates, and be lifted up you everlasting doors and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory?
The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up you everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts, (the Lord of the armies of heaven) He is the King of Glory.
Psalm 24 7-10
Lord as it was then, let it be so now. We open the gates, lifting up the doors of prayer, that the King of Glory, who has defeated the enemy, may come in and take His rightful place. You indeed are the King of Glory!.

Sherrilyn
December 19, 2019

Father God I cry out to you for America! Touch your people once again and heal our land! Give our president and our leaders wisdom, insight and understanding. Protect them and their families from harm. Protect our country and the people of this land from those whose aim Is to do harm. No weapon formed against us shall prosper! I cancel our every evil assignment of the enemy, in Jesus Name

    Mark J Morth
    December 20, 2019

    2 Chronicles 7:14
    14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
    Amen ✝️✝️✝️❣

    Debra Johnson
    December 22, 2019

    Amen! 🙌💞

Deborah Stevens
December 19, 2019

This is so corrupt, so wrong, & should not be! I pray & declare that this shall not be in the name of Jesus! It would be like having the enemy laughing in America’s face! No! NO! No! Father, we ask that You stop this travesty from taking place in our nation. For our nation belongs to You! We honor & worship no other God but God Almighty, the First, The Last, the Beginning & The End, The Lord of Lords, King of Kings, The Only Way, Truth & Life, & Soon & Coming King. Your Ways are Higher than our ways, Your Understanding Far Surpasses Our Own. We ask That You Step In & Devastate What We Cannot. Topple The Works of the Enemy To the Ground. Even as The Tower of Babel was Brought to a standstill, do the same right here in our nation, we pray in Jesus Name! Amen! Amen! & Amen!

    Carole Neve
    December 19, 2019

    Amen and Amen! I agree with your awesome prayer Deborah!

Patricia
December 19, 2019

…EVERY knee will bow before me and EVERY tongue will acknowledge God.” Romans 14:11

Mari
December 19, 2019

No! No! NO! IT MUST NOT BE SO!

SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING HERE!! WAKE UP AMERICA! BUILDING A MOSQUE ON THE SACRED SITE OF THE LOST LIVES OF 3,000 AMERICANS!? INSTEAD OF A MEMORIAL GARDEN?!

NO! NO! NO!

Penny Wheaton
December 19, 2019

Father I pray in Jesus name that these evil plots & schemes of the devil will not come to fruition. United we stand, One God through Jesus Christ in our nation & no other gods.Jesus Christ Kingdom will rule & reign on earth as it is in heave.

Ron Bangert
December 19, 2019

The Long War Against God is exactly that, Long and a War! Ezekiel and Revelations give us insight to Satans desire to be God or like God, being cast down to the earth, Satan approaches Eve and Adam with her. A combo platter. So what is said here is true about what is quoted here:

“There is an important lesson to be learned here — and one we would be wise to adopt. They never stop. No matter how absolutely they lose, how many setbacks they suffer, they keep on pursuing their supremacist goals.”

You don’t negotiate or compromise with the enemy of your soul, you obliterate him. To do that, we must take up our cross daily, fighting to the death, in hand to hand combat called prayer & faith, following our commander in chief & high priest, Jesus, into the Holy of Hoiles, our war room, where we hear His strategies to tear down strongholds. Where Hope rules supreme!

Rose Goetsch
December 19, 2019

Across from the site of the twin towers stands a Saudi flag whose symbols mean Allah is the only god and Mohammad is his prophet. And so we say, this illegal claim to this site be bound in the name of Jesus. Let all the other names fade away. Jesus take Your place!

Elizabeth
December 19, 2019

No King But JESUS. that was the cry of the citizens fighting the British years ago. when the British wanted to make a deal and keep America a colony, the response was, “we will have no sovereign but God, and NO KING BUT JESUS.” and today there are mosques all over America. but America is built on biblical principles, and more than that, America’s government is tied to the Living God Whose Name is I AM. By a covenant. God has intervened in the affairs of America at different times over the years. George Washington was shot at many times, and had his horse shot dead out from under him, but God protected him. and God has seen fit to answer the prayers of the saints by seeing to it that a man named Donald J. Trump got the nod from the voters to be president of the nation.

Do we now let the freedom that was so dearly fought for just go away without so much as a whimper? like a pebble rolling off into a corner never to be found again? Freedom has a price and it is up to us to secure it for the living, for the unborn who have a right to be born and contribute to the fight to keep that freedom, and to see to it that the next generations know how to preserve that freedom for another 200 years or longer. It was Ronald Reagan who said that Freedom is just one generation away from extinction. and some in the Congress tried to impeach him too. it seems that for some being in power is more important than FREEDOM. when that happens America suffers. Jesus, let travail for souls and for America begin to arise out of the hearts of those who know You. amen.

Dorothy Ter Horst
December 19, 2019

Lord, please confuse the strategy of the demonic realm fueling Islam. Make one lie prove another wrong until they kill each other and fall to the ground in Jesus name, Amen.

olayinka
December 19, 2019

Father we thank You that the rod of the wicked shall no treat upon the lot of the righteous in Jesus name!

Nancy P.
December 19, 2019

Father! No! Do not let our enemies triumph in our nation! We have believers here in our country who love You and adhere to Your statutes and I am but one of many! I stand on Your word and rebuke the plans of the enemy who seek to change our nation to their lies and deceitful ways , who bow before a false god. You are the One True God and I pray in the Name of Jesus that the plans of this man and others with evil intentions are thwarted and confused and destroyed! Let Your will be done Father!

    Tracy McConnell
    December 19, 2019

    Father God- I add my voice to this prayer above. Hear our prayers and forgive our nation for not fighting for you. We stand now – united in prayer and purpose- for you as Lord of our nation. Have mercy on us and guide us as we serve you and fight for our nation. In Jesus name- Amen!

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