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| BREAKING: Feds Move To Seize Four U.S. Mosques And Skyscraper Owned By Muslim Group |
| 2009-11-12 |
| Will add info as it becomes available NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors on Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization. The organization -- called the Alavi Foundation -- has long been suspected of being under Iranian government control. Prosecutors say the foundation has been helping to illegally funnel money back to the Iranian government. The government filed a forfeiture action in federal court in New York to seize four mosques in the city and in Maryland, California and Houston. The government also wants to take control of a 36-story office tower on New York's Fifth Avenue. The filing starts what could be a drawn-out legal process. The action against the Shiite Muslim mosques is sure to inflame relations between the U.S. government and American Muslims. Many of them are fearful of a backlash after last week's Fort Hood shooting rampage, blamed on a Muslim American soldier. The mosques and the office tower will remain open while the forfeiture case works its way through court. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #13 What about all the Saudi funded mosques in the US? Daniel Pipes wrote many years ago about the anti-Christian, anti-American, hate filled teaching that goes on in Wahabist mosques all over the US--in fact, some of the 911 killers were members of these mosques--was the one the Fort Hood murderer attended in Virginia one of their's? |
| Posted by: Grampaw Elmineque8138 2009-11-12 22:56 |
| #12 Verlaine - the source of the disease is traceable back to the origins of PC-Correct. I have a murky theory as to which group of 60s militant bra-burners that concept derived from but, who knows, it may pre-date them. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-11-12 22:51 |
| #11 Many of them are fearful of a backlash after last week's Fort Hood shooting rampage, blamed on a Muslim American soldier. Right. Kinda like we're so far into our orwellian la-la land that I don't even have the energy to unpack the outrageous nonsense and errors just in that one sentence. But as I run out the door, here's a perfunctory effort .... Really, how many are fearful, and how do you know, and can you show your data? How reasonable does such a fear sound in the face of recent history (starting w/ 9/11), in which there has been practically zero occurrence of any "backlash" identifiably related to any ongoing news events? His being a Muslim-American soldier has nothing to do with it, of course. The shouting "allan snackbar", the commo w/ AQ, the contact w/ radical imams - uh, those MIGHT color people's initial view of the Ft. Hood atrocity. Reasonably so. Again - as the data set of "systematic, widespread, or significant backlash against the American-Muslim community as a result of islamo-fascist terrorism" is an EMPTY data set, WTF are you even talking about? I know, I know - literally railing against the tide here. But it's useful to periodically remind ourselves of how awash our society is in misinformation, outright fabrication, and outlandishly unreasonable frameworks, thanks to our "education" system and our "media" - and also to our astonishingly mediocre and cowardly "elites" inside the Beltway (figuratively and literally). Very very little of today's perilous and bizarre national political situation would be possible without the mass misconception, bigotry, and misguided moral narcissism created by the country's failed/hijacked institutions. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2009-11-12 20:53 |
| #10 The Alavi Foundation, claiming they are a private non-profit, gave $30,000 to the Clinton Foundation, among others. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-11-12 19:37 |
| #9 heh - bad time to be an American |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-11-12 19:25 |
| #8 From the Miami Herald(AP): Prosecutors said the Alavi Foundation managed the office tower on behalf of the Iranian government and, working with a front company known as Assa Corp., illegally funneled millions in rental income to Iran's state-owned Bank Melli. Bank Melli has been accused by a U.S. Treasury official of providing support for Iran's nuclear program, and it is illegal in the United States to do business with the bank. The U.S. has long suspected the foundation was an arm of the Iranian government; a 97-page complaint details involvement in foundation business by several top Iranian officials, including the deputy prime minister and ambassadors to the United Nations. "For two decades, the Alavi Foundation's affairs have been directed by various Iranian officials, including Iranian ambassadors to the United Nations, in violation of a series of American laws," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. There were no raids Thursday as part of the forfeiture action. The government is simply required to post notices of the civil complaint on the property. As prosecutors outlined their allegations against Alavi, the Islamic centers and the schools they run carried on with normal activity. The mosques' leaders had no immediate comment. Parents lined up in their cars to pick up their children at the schools within the Islamic Education Center of Greater Houston and the Islamic Education Center in Rockville, Md. No notices of the forfeiture action were posted at either place as of late Thursday. At the Islamic Institute of New York, a mosque and school in Queens, two U.S. marshals came to the door and rang the bell repeatedly. The marshals taped a forfeiture notice to the window and left a large document sitting on the ground. After they left a group of men came out of the building and took the document. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-11-12 19:07 |
| #7 Funny echo we got in here... Funny echo we got in here... funny echo we got in here... Did someone say something? I can't hear for all the echoes! Buwaya's multiple duplicates have been cleaned up -Scooter |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2009-11-12 18:56 |
| #6 Buwaya - you oughtta see a doctor about that stutter :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-11-12 18:55 |
| #5 We (BOA) the Big O Administration are buddies with the Saudis, so nothing will happen to the Wahhabi mosques. It has been this way for successive presidents. What can I say? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-11-12 18:21 |
| #4 Yah, that's what I'm wondering. In the wake of a number of massive crimes committed by Sunnis we're going to arrest a couple shi'ites. Not that there aren't bad people in both beliefs (as well as not-bad people) but the lack of an actual punishment-to-perps linkage is kinda bugging me. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-11-12 17:50 |
| #3 "US Muslims", AKA CAIR, would be perfectly happy with this, as they are a Wahhabi-controlled operation. I'm not sure that there is a politically influential Iranian-friendly group here. |
| Posted by: buwaya 2009-11-12 17:43 |
| #2 Interesting that these four mosques and a skyscraper were seized but the one associated with both 9/11 and the more recent events in Ft. Hood were not. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-11-12 17:37 |
| #1 How does the Big O feel about this? Inquiring minds want to know. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-11-12 17:18 |