“New York City has more than 100 mosques, compared with 10 in 1970, and more than 800,000 of its 8.21 million residents are Muslims, said Philip Banks III,” chief of the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau.
Here are some numbers on the Muslim Community in New York City, taken between 1998 and 1999: 28 mosques in Queens, 27 in Brooklyn, 20 in the Bronx, 17 in Manhattan and eight in Staten Island; however, all participants said they thought they had underestimated the number of mosques, because worshippers often set up small mosques in their apartments that are not visible from the street.
Meanwhile, for the larger Jewish population of New York City
There are actually 77 synagogues, but this has been three centuries in the making!
More statistics at Infidel Bloggers Alliance in this edgy post.
What is a mosque, really? Please watch the following:
Some reading: "Inside the Forbidden Fortress" by Avenging Apostate (2006)
Also see my post of August 13, 2010, for information about the Ground Zero Mosque's imam.
Pious Muslims ought to know that any mosque built downtown will be built on soil that was roamed by pigs and is a veritable pig burial ground. From the porkboard.org archive:
. . . Where Wall Street got its name?
Free-roaming hogs were famous for rampaging through the valuable grain fields of colonial New York City farmers. The Manhattan Islandresidents chose to block the troublesome hogs with a long, permanent wall on the northern edge of what is now Lower Manhattan. A street came to border this wall — named aptly enough, Wall Street.
Also see Bare Naked Islam's posting on this same topic:
Seville, Spain. A township governed by the left accepted to sell its land to a group of muslims for the construction of a mosque. A group of non-immigrant Spaniards that didn’t want the mosque in their neighborhood came up with an original solution. In the middle of the lot where the mosque was supposed to be built, they buried a big pig and made sure it became public knowledge. Since Islamic law forbids the construction of mosques on hog-soiled land, the Arabs had to abandon the project..The Israelis have been using this strategy since 2004. They put containers of pork fat in all their buses and made sure everybody knew about it. If a suicide bomber decides to explode himself in a bus, he’s taking the chance that some of the pig fat ends up on his body and therefore he will not go to Paradise. Israelis buses have been safe from attacks since then. No more attacks.
Spread the word. The land for the Ground Zero mosque is contaminated for any Moslem use!
Note to readers: Please see my GEIGO gecko post below.
Islam gets a foothold right near the place where some 3,000 people were killed in the name of Allah on September 11, 2001.
(NY Daily News) A proposal to build a mosque steps from Ground Zero received the support of a downtown committee despite some loved ones of 9/11 victims finding it offensive.
The 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center was unanimously endorsed by the 12-member Community Board 1's financial district committee.
The $100 million project, called the Cordoba House, is proposed for the old Burlington Coat Factory building at Park Place and Broadway, just two blocks from the World Trade Center site.
"I think it will be a wonderful asset to the community," said committee Chairman Ro Sheffe.
Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, who helped found the Cordoba Initiative following the 9/11 attacks, said the project is intended to foster better relations between the West and Muslims.
He said the glass-and-steel building would include a 500-seat performing arts venue, a swimming pool and a basketball court. "There's nothing like it," said Rauf, adding that facilities will be open to all New Yorkers.
Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement and a member of the Cordoba Initiative's board, said donations are being sought to pay for the construction.
Khan said the project has received little opposition.
Cordoba was the Seat of the Islamic Caliphate, and the location of the Grand Mosque.
This Mosque is named after the Seat of the Caliphate for a reason....
[This woman is signing] away Western Civilization for a few beads of PC feel-goodiness.
And what does a mosque signify to Islamic supremacists yearning for the caliphate?
“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers…”
And let's not forget about The Crescent of Betrayal in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the site of the crash of Flight 93.
Dhimmitude, surrender, and submission are running rampant!
Virginia Politicians And The Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center (Updated)
About Dar Al-Hijrah (with thanks to Denise), quite the web of Wahhabism (links from Wiki for convenience):
That mosque produced two 9/11 jihadists, one Ft. Hood mass murderer (Maj. Nidal Hasan worshiped there when he was stationed in the D.C. area) and Imam Anwar al Awlaki ,who emailed back and forth, advising Maj. Hasan and also praised the 1999 valedictorian of the in Alexandria Omar Abu Ali (who is now serving a life sentence for his part in joining Al Qaeda and attempting to assassinate President Bush); Al Awlaki glowingly compared Omar Abu Ali to Rosa Parks.
A link to the article associated with the video below the fold. LINK
So, what's going on in your neighborhood with your politicians? Whose fundraisers are your so-called elected representatives attending?
UPDATE: The only one of the politicians who showed up for the fundraiser at the mosque was Gerry Connolly, representative in the U.S. House and former chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County. Figures that he would show up. He was the leader of expand the Islamic Saudi Academy a while back.
Released yesterday, the latest from Dispatches can be viewed in its entirety is below the fold (the total viewing time about 50 minutes in length, approximately 10 minutes per video).
With a hat-tip to Sounder, who left this link to "The Rise of Islam in America" in a comment at Foehammer's Anvil:
-------- Excerpt from the text at the above link (emphases mine):
There are between 6 and 7 million Muslims in America today. In other words, Muslims outnumber some Christian denominations and are equal to the number of Jews. Research done in the year 2000 by prominent American universities and Islamic foundations show that the number of Muslims is increasing rapidly and that Islam is growing stronger day by day.
The above graphic representation shows the rising numbers of mosques in America. The main theme of this research, known as the Mosque Study Project, is the establishment of mosques in America. The reason for this is that mosques occupy a very special place in any statistical compilations done with regard to the American Muslim community. Mosques in America are both houses of worship and gathering places for talking with one another and launching cultural activities to make Islam more widely known. Every mosque establishes a relationship with the press to introduce Islam to a wider audience, speaks with local politicians, visits schools and churches, engages in interfaith dialogue and carries on other such activities.Thus, research done on these mosques is one of the most useful tools for gathering accurate and enlightening information on this community's state.
According to this research, America now has about 1,209 mosques, most of which were constructed very recently.Thirty percent of these mosques were built in the 1990s, and 32% were built in the 1980s. Other statistics show that in 1994, the total number of mosques in America was 962; in 2000, there was a 25% increase in this number.
These data show a natural parallel with the growing number of Muslims. For example, according to determinations made in 1994, the number of Muslims attending mosque services was 500,000; in 2000, this figure had increased to 2 million-an approximately 300% increase. A significant part of this number is composed of people who converted to Islam. The same research shows that about 30% of those worshippers are converts. According to these data, about 20,000 Americans accept Islam every year....
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