The Empire State Building Submits to Islam
by Pamela Geller18 Jul 2015
Not one day – not twenty-four hours after the Chattanooga
jihad mass murder – the symbol of American individualism, capitalism, and the
capital of the world, the Empire State Building, one of the foremost
symbols of American freedom, celebrated the Muslim “holiday” of Eid al-Fitr,
the end of Ramadan. Ramadan is the most violent month of the year in the Islamic
world, because Ramadan is the month in which Muslims renew their devotion to
Allah, and violent jihad is a supreme act of devotion to Allah.
All told, 2,988 people were shot, burned, blown up,
beheaded, or hacked to death in the cause of Islam during this “holy” month,
with 3,696 wounded, beating last year’s savage human toll of 2,429, with 2,028
wounded. This is not political correctness; this is sharia adherence. Wherever
your sympathies may lie, the idea that the Empire State Building would turn
green for Eid not a day after five U.S. soldiers were murdered in cold blood in
the cause of Islam on American soil is surrender. We have indeed been
conquered.
Wouldn’t it have been appropriate and respectful for the
owners of the Empire State Building, in honor of our fallen heroes, if they had
to commemorate Eid at all, to drape the Empire State Building in red, white and
blue? What “moderate Muslim,” what Muslim of conscience, would have or could
have objected?
And while the Empire State Building lights up for Christmas,
Easter, and Hanukkah, that is not the same as lighting up for Eid. The
religions are not equivalent, and the holidays aren’t, either. Christians
aren’t slaughtering people worldwide in the name of Jesus, and Jews aren’t
slaughtering people worldwide in the name of HaShem. To reward those who are
killing us is madness, or at very least, a massive willful blindness. Of
course, not every Muslim is responsible for jihad attacks, but until Muslim
communities in the U.S. start fighting actively against the jihad doctrine that
justifies all this violence, Islam shouldn’t be celebrated.
Devout Muslims across the world, and most particularly those
of the Islamic State (ISIS), have exhorted the Muslim faithful to behead and
slaughter in the month of Ramadan. ISIS released a video promising that,
according to Islamic scripture, “the reward for the good deed of jihad is
doubled in the month of Ramadan.”
The ISIS savages declared
in a video: “The Lord has commanded his servants to observe the fasting [of
Ramadhan]. The vast majority of the Muslims have observed this [fast], obeying
what the Lord has commanded them. The Lord has also commanded them to fight for
His sake. But this command has been neglected by the vast majority of the
Muslims. Only the mujahideen for the sake of Allah have observed both commands.
May the month of fasting and Jihad bring blessing upon them.”
And now, it not only has brought them “blessing” over a pile
of dead bodies, but the Empire State Building’s honor and commemoration. Can
you imagine the celebrations in savage quarters upon seeing the Empire State
Building lit up in green for Eid, while the bodies of the dead in the latest
jihad attack on Americans are still warm?
This is not tolerance. This is surrender.
The Empire State Building refused to light its crown in
order to celebrate Mother Theresa’s 100th birthday. But Eid? Of
course! What possible justification could these craven quislings have for such
betrayal?
The privately-owned building receives hundreds of requests
each year to light up for various causes and events, almost all of which they
summarily turn down. They saw fit to light up in the cause of Islam, crowning
an unfathomable tower of human flesh and blood.
I love this city. But I am appalled and ashamed that the
Empire State Building is kneeling before those who have plotted and planned to
destroy it. The thousands of victims of the September 11, 2001 jihad attack
on New York
City are turning over in their
graves – that is, those who even had body parts to bury. I shudder to think
what it is going to take for people to recognize the reality of jihad. But make
no mistake about it: the jihad is coming – because of our weak and feckless
political elites and their shadowy, well-heeled backers.
Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom
Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The Post-American Presidency:
The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of
America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Follow her on Twitter here. Like her on
Facebook here.
Islam
Louis Farrakhan
is the acting head for the Nation of
Islam, and awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr. Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter Newsmagazine.
Note: Trumpeter
Newsmagazine is a publication for the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Barack
Obama was a parishioner at the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago), and an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of
Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank), and Lester Crown’s son.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and the Harlem Children's
Zone.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a
benefactor at the Harlem Children's Zone.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago, James
S. Crown’s father, and Henry Crown’s
son.
Henry
Crown was Lester Crown’s father,
and the majority owner for the Empire
State Building.
Trump
Empire State Partners was the owner of the Empire State Building, and a partner with the Trump Empire State Inc.
Donald
Trump is the founder of the Trump
Empire State Inc., a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election, a director at the Police Athletic League of New York City, and was Samuel H. Lindenbaum’s client.
Maurice R.
Greenberg is a director at the Police
Athletic League of New York City, a director at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center,
and was a benefactor at the Harlem
Children's Zone.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor at the Harlem
Children's Zone, the New York (NY)
mayor, the chairman for the National
September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, and is a
friend of Henry A. Kissinger.
Henry A. Kissinger is a friend of Michael R. Bloomberg, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), a trustee emeritus at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Samuel H.
Lindenbaum was an honorary trustee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Donald Trump, Larry A.
Silverstein, Jerry I. Speyer and
Harry B. Helmsley, were his clients.
Larry A.
Silverstein was Samuel H.
Lindenbaum’s client, and a donor for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center.
Jerry
I. Speyer was Samuel H. Lindenbaum’s
client, and is a director at the National
September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center.
Harry B. Helmsley
was Samuel H. Lindenbaum’s client,
an investor in the Empire State Building
Associates LLC, and a co-founder for the Empire State Building Co. LLC.
Empire
State Building Co. LLC is the leasor for the Empire State Building.
Henry
Crown was the majority owner for Empire
State Building, and Lester Crown’s
father.
Lester Crown
is Henry Crown’s son, James S. Crown’s father, a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
James S.
Crown is Lester Crown’s son, a
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Penny S. Pritzker
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the secretary at the U.S. Department
of Commerce for the Barack Obama administration, was the national finance chair, fundraiser
for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential
campaign, a co-chair for the 2009
Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign,
a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama
inaugural committee, the host for the Barack
Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008, and Craig M. Robinson’s basketball coach for the children's team.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is Craig M. Robinson’s sister.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and a parishioner at the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Trumpeter
Newsmagazine is a publication for the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Louis Farrakhan
was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr. Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter Newsmagazine, and is the
acting head for the Nation of Islam.
National
September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center was destroyed
by the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
Sharif El-Gamal gains full
control of Islamic museum site
Developer pays Con Ed $10.7M for fee interest on 49-51 Park
Place; all lawsuits settled
July 30, 2014 01:40PM
By Hiten Samtani
By Hiten Samtani
Sharif El-Gamal now has full
control over the site of his upcoming Islamic museum at 49-51 Park Place, The
Real Deal has learned. El-Gamal’s Soho Properties, which had a long-term
ground lease with Consolidated Edison for the Lower Manhattan site, just closed
on the fee interest for $10.7 million.
In a statement to TRD,
El-Gamal said today that “we are pleased to have concluded a complex
acquisition from Con Edison allowing us to complete the assemblage for our
upcoming development at Park Place. This further exemplifies our strength as a
buyer of real estate from institutional sellers.” El-Gamal will build a
three-story Islamic museum and prayer space at the site, which will be designed
by Pritzker Prize-winning
French architect Jean Nouvel.
In 2009, Soho Properties paid
$700,000 to assume control of the ground lease. In 2011, Con-Ed sued the
developer for allegedly owing $1.7 million in back rent at the site.
Representatives for Soho said today that all lawsuits relating to the site have
now been settled.
The site, formerly known as Park 51,
was the centerpiece of a fierce debate over religious freedoms in 2010. The
development, originally slated to be a $140 million, 15-story project,
attracted the ire of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former
House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, as well as anti-Islam firebrand
Pamela Geller. Mayor
Michael Bloomberg, however, threw his full
support behind the plan, which eventually fell through due to lack of
financing.
Daisy
Khan is a developer for Park51,
an executive director for the American
Society for Muslim Advancement, and was a director at the White House Project.
American
Society for Muslim Advancement is a sponsor for the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow.
Alwaleed
Bin Talal Foundation was a funder for the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow, and the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Human Rights Watch.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, his son is Jonathan Soros, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and a benefactor at the Human
Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, the Roosevelt
Institute, and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Gara
LaMarche was the VP & director of U.S. programs for the Open Society Foundations, an associate
director at the Human Rights Watch,
a director at the White House Project,
is a director at the Roosevelt Institute,
and a director at the Open Society
Policy Center.
Jonathan
Soros is the vice chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, a director at the Open Society Policy Center, George
Soros’s son, and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, the Roosevelt
Institute, and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago, James
S. Crown’s father, and Henry Crown’s
son.
Henry
Crown was Lester Crown’s father,
and the majority owner for the Empire
State Building.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is Craig M. Robinson’s sister.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and a parishioner at the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Trumpeter
Newsmagazine is a publication for the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Louis Farrakhan
was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr. Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter Newsmagazine, and is the
acting head for the Nation of Islam.
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