FOX Business: Pamela Geller, Ground Zero Mosque Taxpayer Funding

Last night I appeared on Eric Bolling's Follow the Money, to debate the latest Islamic attack on the American people in the second wave of the Ground Zero mosque controversy. The Islamic supremacists behind the Ground Zero mega mosque applied for $5 million in federal grant money that has been set aside for the redevelopment of lower Manhattan after the attacks of September 11th.

The $5 million Islamic supremacist request represents nearly one-third of all the $17 million that is now available. 265 groups have applied for the funding.

Note the morphing mosque narrative. For months Imam Rauf and his gang have been whining that the building destroyed in the attacks of 911 was not close to Ground Zero, but now they want to be included in the ground zero area’s geography.

Watch as I debate a loud but ignorant mob of flapping tongues. Ill-informed and delusional hardly describes these tools. Note how the "reverend" starts grunting whenever I say something that might teach people something.

UPDATE: Doug Hagmann lists the board of directors and phone numbers for Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in this article. (thanks to Tom)


"To courteously voice your concerns over the possible grant being awarded to the Cordoba Initiative (now referred to as the Park 51 Project), you might consider contacting the LMDC directly. Below is their contact information, along with a listing of the present board members.
Pamela Geller

Bloomberg Cozy with Menins

Jewish Week is at it again, following up on their September Geller hit piece in their jewicidal pandering to Islamic supremacism and Islamic antisemitism. Hamas group CAIR touted the Geller hit piece in their daily alert. Need I say more? Good work, slaves.

In today's piece on taxpayer funding of the Ground Zero mosque, the above picture tells the whole story. They had to watch the whole video of my remarks to the community board #1 meeting to grab this deliberate screenshot while running a -- is that a publicity shot for the LMDC board chair and GZM tool Julie Menin? (I don't even have a publicity shot.) Menin's husband is Bruce Menin, president and principal of Crescent Heights Investments, a national real estate development company. The real estate aspect is key here for LMDC chair Menin.

The Menins are a pair of tools in Bloomberg's toolbox -- check this out. Cozy, no?

GZMosque Applies to HUD for $5 Millions Grant

But the project likely doesn’t quality for a grant in the first place. Specifically, the grant criteria mandate a demonstration of a project’s financial feasibility, based on benchmarks set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The government will help complete development projects—but it does not provide seed capital. And in their last public financial statement, Park51 was found to have less than $20,000 in the bank for a project with a slated cost of $100 million.

"Any solicitation for LMDC funds would have to meet the HUD criteria for eligibility," explains Julie Menin, an LMDC board member and the Chairperson of New York’s Community Board 1, which includes the World Trade Center site.

It will be interesting to see how the LMDC deals with the appropriateness of this application, especially given its stated commitment to “an open, inclusive, and transparent planning process in which the public has a central role in shaping the future of Lower Manhattan.” After all, among its advisory councils are representatives of the victim’s families, who are unlikely to be sympathetic to the subject.

President Obama came under fire this fall for alternately asserting the mosque's right to exist and then subsequently questioning the wisdom of the project. He was essentially right, and this new chapter in the Park51 saga shows that wisdom is the essential component missing from this development.

In the end, Park51’s application is likely to be unsuccessful financially while mobilizing a new round of opposition. It’s a lose-lose proposition put forward by a tone-deaf organization that seems determined to alienate allies and embolden opponents.
John Avlon, The Daily Beast