Follow the Money: Is Mayor Bloomberg's Support for the Ground Zero Islamic Mosque Due to his Bloomberg LLC Expanding in the Middle East (Dubai)?

This is all starting to make sense. We knew that Bloomberg was very wealthy and most likely could not be bought by a group of people behind the Ground Zero Islamic Mosque who have little money. Now the truth comes out that his LLC is heavily invested in the Middle East in Muslim countries and light bulb goes off. Of course, Bloomberg would be for the Ground Zero Islamic Mosque for his own business interest.

Is this why he wanted a 3rd term so bad?

Bloomberg LLC sells its terminals from seven regional hubs: London, Sao Paolo, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney but the Dubai regional center will allow Bloomberg access to Islamic sharia based banking and monetary systems by developing a sharia compliant finance portal.

According to the regional head of Bloomberg LLC’s Middle East and South Asia centers, Max Linnington, “The region for us has seen explosive growth. For example, last year in the UAE, we grew our core business by 61 per cent. And already this year, we exceeded what we achieved in all of last year in the UAE. So we are selling a lot of Bloomberg terminals, basically.”

Mondo Frazier, Big Journalism, has been investigating the connection:

Does the Mayor’s unshakable support have anything to do with The Bloomberg (company) becoming a ‘single provider of information that caters to the Islamic business market’? A Bloomberg five-year business plan for an Islamic finance portal via a Bloomberg hub at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is already a reality.

The puzzle pieces are beginning to fit. Bloomberg was pushing the 'freedom of religion' card too much when he didn't do anything for St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero. Ignored them like they don't exist but his support for the Ground Zero Islamic Mosque project has been over the top. It also has led to people questioning what stake Bloomberg had in this Mosque Project.

Some of Bloomberg LP’s officials may hold some clues.

On October 2, 2009, The Dubai Chronicle reported Chairman and President of Bloomberg LP Peter T. Grauer met with UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum at Maktoum’s Emirate office. According to the Dubai Chronicle, Grauer gave a presentation of Bloomberg future expansion plans in the ‘area of business information’ in the United Emirates, North Africa, and India. Grauer stated the UAE was a great place to expand, the UAE’s “logistic facilities” the ‘biggest incentive for investors and companies to expand their businesses in the country and the region beyond’.

“Particularly since the meltdown of the western capitalist system, there has been an increasingly large focus on the virtues of Islamic finance. Today, there is no one single provider of information that caters to the Islamic finance market. So by Bloomberg being here, we are in the process of building out an Islamic finance product. We are very confident that we can build a product that meets the needs of the market right now.”

–Max Linnington, Regional Head of Bloomberg Middle East and South Asia on the company’s plan to build a Bloomberg hub in Dubai at the Dubai International Financial Centre(DIFC), October 29, 2009

Some details about the DIFC:

The DIFC is the world’s fastest growing international financial centre. It aims to develop the same stature as New York, London and Hong Kong.

It primarily serves the vast region between Western Europe and East Asia.

How much money does Bloomberg's LLC stand to make off of his fnancial dealings in Dubai and other places in the Middle East?  Would say this is a definite conflict of interest and the calls for Bloomberg to step down as Mayor should begin immediately.  In fact, an investigation should be started to see if he used his position as Mayor to further his own LLC in the Middle East.

Mayor Bloomberg’s Middle East Business Interests
August 17, 2010 by Matthew J. O'Connor

'Ground Zero Mosque Madness: NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s Bloomberg LLC expanding its financial center to a regional hub in Dubai’

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is on record excoriating opponents of a new Islamic mosque scheduled to begin construction on September 11, 2011 in lower Manhattan. The proposed mosque’s site is two blocks from the former World Trade Center’s Twin Towers destroyed ten years previously on September 11, 2001 by Islamic jihadists.

Bloomberg’s demands of religious tolerance from his city’s citizens is inconsistent in a city with 100 mosques already in operation but with a school system that will not acknowledge Christianity or Christmas, or even allow the repairs necessary for the Greek Orthodox Church, St. Nicholas, to go forward nearly a decade after it was crushed by falling debris from the Twin Towers themselves.

Paralleling Mayor Bloomberg’s veiled insults towards those acutely aware of the historical Islamic conquest of non-Muslim lands by their building of mosques on top of or dominating a conquered people’s holy sites, is the concurrent Bloomberg LLC’s expansion of its Dubai financial center into a regional hub for the UAE.

Founded in 1981 by Michael Bloomberg, who privately owns 85% of the limited liability corporation, Bloomberg LLC is a dominant player in global financial software, data gathering and news, commanding one third of its market niche estimated at $16 billion dollars.

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Bloomberg LLC has news bureaus throughout the Gulf Corporation Counsel (GCC) and is opening offices in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Its new Dubai regional hub will cover financial news, analysis and data gathering throughout the Middle East and extend Eastwards across Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Indian subcontinent and Nepal.

Sharia banking does not pay interest but donates a percentage to Islamic interests around the globe, mostly centering on Islamic expansionism through building mosques, madrassas, Western law suits (lawfare) or more violently through Islamic jihadist terrorism.

It should not come as a surprise that a co-founder of the Hamas organization, Mahmoud al-Zahar, came out and said the following about the controversial Cordoba mosque, whose imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, refuses to identify Hamas as a terrorist organization, ”We have to build everywhere. In every area we have, [as] Muslim[s], we have to pray, and this mosque is the only site of prayer. We have to build the mosque, as you are allowed to build the church and Israelis are building their holy places.”

Considering that there are so few Muslims in Lower Manhattan and that they already have 100 mosques in New York City from which to choose, Al-Zahar’s reasoning is as specious as Mayor Bloomberg’s especially since the definition of what is considered “holy” needs to be examined.

For Americans in general and New Yorkers in particular, the site of the Twin towers and the memory of the nearly three thousand, who died in the worst domestic attack on US soil, is a holy site. For Muslims worldwide that attack and destruction represents the triumph of Islam, which makes Ground Zero “holy” in their eyes but a definite historical and psychological assault on US citizens.

By siding with Islamic expansionism through mosque building, New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg’s insulting tirade against the Cordoba mosque’s detractors, calls into question his ethics in catering financially to an avowed enemy of Western civilization and democratic principles.

Excerpt: Read More at Clarion Advisory

Save St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church’s land at Ground Zero

No matter how much Obama and his people try to spin, we heard and read what he had to say and it was an endorsement of the Islamic Mosque at Ground Zero. All you had to do was listen to the tone of his voice to realize he was angry with all of us for opposing the building of this mosque.

If Obama believed in his version of 'religious freedom,' he would be pushing for the rebuilding of St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church near Ground Zero that was destroyed on 9/11 when a tower fell on the Church. NYC has refused the right to rebuild St. Nicholas.

Eighty-some years ago this land was purchased and St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was built but now they are under threat of the New York Port Authority wanting to take their land by eminent domain. Why haven't they been allowed to rebuild? This was the only House of Worship destroyed on 9/11, but yet the Port Authority has refused to talk to them for over year and reneged on a swap of property. Why?

This makes zero sense that St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero cannot rebuild while Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama push for the Muslims to have the right to build their Islamic Mosque near Ground Zero. How much money is being transferred into the pockets of NY politicians to get their support for the Ground Zero Islamic Mosque? This looks like one of those 'follow the money' trails because nothing else makes sense.

The facts are that NYC wants to seize the land by eminent domain that St. Nicholas sits on but at the same time allow the Muslims to build their Islamic Mosque near Ground Zero. If this doesn't send a chill up your spine, nothing will.

Watch to this video and ask why Obama supports the building of the Ground Zero Islamic Mosque but is not getting involved in what NYC is doing to the people of St. Nicholas who own their own property.

Opposition to the Mosque near Ground Zero is not Going Away but Getting Stronger

What is the difference between Muslim and Islam? A Muslim is someone who follows the religion Islam and who has submitted to Allah. One submits to Allah by confession of the Shahada or the 5 pillars of faith. Besides the five major beliefs or doctrines in Islam, there are these are observances in Islam which are foundational practices or duties every Muslim must observe. Read More at: http://www.truthnet.org/islam/whatisislam.html

We asked that question because we kept seeing the words interchanged in articles especially after this Ground Zero Mosque has caught the attention of a lot of people so we wanted to clarify the definition.

This morning we received an email from Jay Sukelow, ACLJ, with the following we excerpted:

the ACLJ is taking action. We're demanding that the State Department put a halt to the Imam's participation in this publicly-funded trip.

As you know, the ACLJ is already in court, taking the lead on this troubling issue. We're representing New York firefighter Tim Brown, a first responder who survived the Twin Towers' collapse on 9/11 and lost nearly 100 friends. We've filed suit in New York challenging a vote by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), which denied landmark status to the building where the mosque is planned.

And now, there are new revelations that the developer of the mosque project does not even own both parcels of land needed for construction of the project - raising a host of new legal questions amid serious concerns about whether the developer misled the public and New York officials in an attempt to get the mosque project approved.

What is wrong with the Mayor of New York Bloomberg, members of the City Council, et al, who have approved the building of this mosque so close to Ground Zero of the WTC towers? This is not religious tolerance even remotely. This is throwing it in our face by the Iman and his fellow Muslims that they can do whatever they want no matter that members of the Islamic Faith they preach are the ones who killed over 2600 people that day when the Islamic Jihadists hijacked planes and flew them into the World Trade Center Towers.

New York City went from having a Mayor (Rudy Guiliani) who stood up to the Islamic supporters to a political correct Mayor Bloomberg who is rumored to have paid off Thompson to stay in the race for Mayor. Who did he pay off in order to support doing away with term limits just for him or was it done so he could continue to guide the economy of NYC back BUT that was only for the rich? Is this Mosque another reason why he fought for a 3rd term?

Harris Sherline in his editorial at GOP USA said what most of us have thinking about this Mosque:

Sherline: The Mosque At Ground Zero
By Harris R. Sherline August 12, 2010 7:05 AM


I don't appreciate being lectured on fairness, that is, what my attitude should be about some particular issue, based on whether I am willing to be "tolerant" of "the other" point of view, which amounts to agreeing that my own opinion is wrong. The Mosque at Ground Zero is a case in point. Furthermore, I am also not interested in being politically correct to the point that I am willing to tolerate the in-your-face construction of a $100 million Islamic cultural center and mosque at ground zero, within a stone's throw of the World Trade Center (WTC).

And, notwithstanding the support of New York City's Mayor Bloomberg and other civic leaders, including the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, it's clear that millions of other Americans oppose what they see as a deliberate assault on the sensibilities of those who lost friends and family in the WTC attack on 9/11.
Attorney Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has filed an action urging the New York state Supreme Court, arguing that the mosque currently on the site deserves "landmark status," which would prevent the building that now occupies the site from being torn down. His brief compares building a mosque and cultural center at ground zero to "putting a monument to kamikaze pilots at the Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor." In addition, he questions the source of the $100 million that will be needed for the projects, asking: "where is this money coming from and who's behind it?"

Read more: http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2010/08/sherline-the-mosque-at-ground-zero.php#ixzz0wPM9irCm

Representative Peter King (R-NY) asked for an inquiry into the funding of the Mosque at Ground Zero in an interview he had with AP. Will he get his request honored? Probably not until January 2013 after the new Congress takes office. We have no faith in Pelosi and her puppets looking into any funding involving the Islamic mosque at Ground Zero.

We note that Democrat candidate for Governor Cuomo supports the building of this mosque which should make the NY debates for Governor extremely interesting. Will Republicans finally run campaigns to win in NY? This is the year that those supporting the Ground Zero Mosque need defeated.

NEW YORK -- The ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee said Monday he favors an investigation into the funding of a proposed mosque near ground zero.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Rep. Peter King raised concerns about the sources of funding for the proposed $100 million mosque, just blocks away from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, where nearly 3,000 Americans died at the hands of Islamic terrorists.

"It's a house of worship, but we are at war with al-Qaida," King told the AP. "I think the 9/11 families have a right to know where the funding comes from; I think there are significant questions."

The mosque is a project of the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Institute, which promotes cross-cultural understanding between Islam and the West. Cordoba's director, Imam Faisel Abdul Rauf, has refused to disclose the sources of funding for the mosque and once suggested in a television interview that U.S. policies contributed to the 9/11 attacks.

King's views differ sharply from those of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said Monday it would be un-American to investigate the mosque. Bloomberg, a Republican-turned-independent, has backed the mosque since the project came under development, as do numerous other community and political leaders including Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic nominee for governor.

Read More at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/12/ny-congressman-calls-inquiry-funding-mosque-near-ground-zero/

Frank Gaffney: Coming to Grips with Sharia (Muslim Law)

The American people are being subjected to spin and lies about Sharia not the truth by Obama and his Administration, along with Democrat leaders of Congress, local elected officials like Mayor Bloomberg of NYC, academia, and financial institutions for starters. All these people are trying to whitewash Sharia claiming it is not counter to the Constitution. That makes us ask if they don't understand the Constitution or they don't understand Sharia because the two are not compatible by any stretch of the imagination. Why won't these people/media tell the truth about Sharia? Political correctness is going to get us killed.

Unfortunately, too many Americans still remain unaware of the magnitude of the danger we face from Shariah. Worse yet, their ability to comprehend this threat, let alone respond appropriately to it, is being seriously disserved by people who know better - or should. Specifically, the public is being seriously misled by 1) some journalists and politicians who are obscuring the true nature of Shariah and 2) Shariah practitioners who engage in deliberate deception to facilitate the penetration of their doctrine into Western societies.

This paragraph from the article leads us to wonder how many in the media/government actually favor Muslims over Christians/Jews? It is mind boggling that these so-called leaders try to put a guilt trip on the rest of us for not wanting Islamic Mosques built. It is not working because most Americans understand what the Islamic faith is all about -- their goal to to turn everyone Muslim or they prefer you were dead. They leave no room for other religions but yet our political and some church leaders want Americans to embrace their Islamic religion as just another church. Last we checked new Christian churches that have been formed, did not want to kill us. The terrorists are not called Islamic Jihadists for nothing even though that is not considered words to be used by this Administration.

Americans across this country are struggling to understand the true nature of the threat we face from Shariah. They are entitled to straight talk about the extent to which it is being insinuated, promoted and legitimated not only in mosques but by financial institutions, banks, academic institutions and government agencies. Those who fail to provide such unvarnished truths are part of the problem, and should be treated accordingly.

The controversy surrounding the building of the Islamic Mosque near Ground Zero has taken a new twist as it has come to light that Con Ed owns half the building which was information not given to the people making the decision. Why did the Muslims hide the fact they didn't own the entire building? Will NYC now make the application process start all over again or will they whitewash it and give permission to build? What are Bloomberg and the City Council of NYC thinking with allowing this Mosque so close to Ground Zero. The hijackers on 9/11 all were Muslim and now NYC wants to build this huge mosque near Ground Zero and actually break ground for it on 9/11? The 3rd term of Bloomberg is turning into a disaster.

Anger is building across America at the boldness of Muslims in America with these mosques and it is not helped by Obama who favors them and covers for what any of their members might do like Major Nidal Malik Hasan who went on a killing spree on Fort Hood, Texas. He is still drawing military pay and benefits while awaiting trial for the murders. This Administration and the media did their best to keep the fact he was a practicing hard liner Muslim from the American people. He had been turned in for his interaction with patients but the Army and their political correctness failed to act.

Why are communities allowing these mosques to be built? There is a mosque near the University of Oklahoma where the 'lone' suicide bomber attended who tried to blow up our football stadium. To this day the 'real' facts are still missing in the case. The local mosque at that time had TV cameras watching people going by, yet by all accounts there was no surveillance of the mosque. This 'lone' person with a Pakistani roommate had enough bomb making chemicals in his apartment that the local PD took 18 trips to the bomb disposal dump so not to blow up a city block. When they detonated the bomb, windows rattled five miles away. Yet we were supposed to believe he really wasn't dangerous and didn't try to blow up the stadium.

Local media had one source but they could not get a second source to go on record so the spin of the Government stood. If they expect anyone in this area to swallow the 'religion of peace' mantra, think again. This is the second instance with Government cover-up of bombings this area has experienced -- the first was with the Murrah Building blown up by McVeigh/Nichols/Others. FBI in both instances were selective in what they investigated. The 'lone' bomber in Norman they tried to tell us had left a suicide note on his computer they found three weeks after he was blown up.

The same BS meter is going off about these mosques they are trying to build around the Country with what has already happened in Oklahoma. Obama said we were one of the largest Muslim countries -- maybe that was wishful thinking for the future.


Is it true that Obama is Muslim even though attending Rev Wright's Church of Christ which was a cover for Muslims in Chicago wanting to pretend their were Christian? Did the media bother to follow up? NO -- they allowed Obama to throw Rev Wright under the bus with little comment. When Obama bowed to the Saudi king, the media still had little comment. What is the media hiding from the American people about Obama's Muslim background?

Read this article from Frank Gaffney and ask yourself what is wrong with the leadership of this Country including with Mayor Bloomberg. Shame Rudy is still not the Mayor because this would not be happening. Rudy refused a check from a Saudi prince after 9/11 while Bloomberg refuses to check the source of the Muslim funding for the mosque. That's the difference between a real leader -- Rudy and someone who will bow to the Muslims and whatever they want to do -- Obama and Bloomberg.

Coming to grips with shariah
Center for Security Policy Aug 09, 2010
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.

Suddenly, it seems, everyone is talking about Shariah. In particular, growing controversies over proposed mosques at Ground Zero and other sites are becoming powerful "teaching moments" - raising awareness about the repressive theo-political-military-legal doctrine that animates the builders and that their fellow adherents seek to impose on the entire world.

This is a most welcome development in light of the grave and growing threat posed by this agenda and the concerted effort being made - here and elsewhere, through violent jihad and the stealthy kind - to realize that goal.

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As an example of the former, consider the article that led the New York Times front page on Sunday entitled "Battles around Nation over Proposed Mosques." It accurately reported that Americans from the Ground Zero neighborhood in Lower Manhattan to San Bernardino are expressing growing concern about Muslim mosques that "seek to replace the U.S. Constitution with Islamic Shariah law."

Yet, the Times proceeded to dismiss the idea that such mosques are a problem. It cited "interfaith groups led by Protestant ministers, Catholic priests, rabbis and clergy members from other faiths [who] have defended the mosques." One such individual was quoted as saying that the opponents "have fear because they don't know" those involved in such mosques.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg went even further last week declaring that those critical of the construction of a permanent symbol of Shariah adherents' victorious destruction of the World Trade Center "ought to be ashamed of themselves" for being intolerant. Moreover, he categorically rejected the idea that it was reasonable, let alone necessary, to determine the source of funds for the $100-plus million mega-mosque near Ground Zero.

In other words, the Mayor seemingly is indifferent to whether the funding for the mosque sponsored by the Cordoba Initiative (named for the capital city of the Moorish conquerors of Spain and the site where they triumphally transformed a Catholic church into a massive mosque) might be the Saudis, with their version of Shariah known as Wahhabism.

This cavalier attitude is absolutely stupefying insofar as two years ago this month, the New York Police Department issued a report warning that Wahhabi mosques in America were incubators for "homegrown" Islamic radicals.

The Mayor has a duty to know a lot more than he evidently does about Shariah. He certainly has an obligation to figure out whether - as is true of, by some estimates, 80% of the mosques in America - the Ground Zero Mosque is going to fit the profile of a Wahhabi-associated facility.

The challenge of assuring public awareness of the Shariah threat would be hard enough if the only impediment were ill-informed politicians and journalists. Matters are made much worse by the skill with which Shariah's adherents dissemble, or simply lie.

For example, the New York Times article cited Camie Ayash, a spokeswoman for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee - the sponsors of a proposed 52,000 square foot mosque that has precipitated an intense local backlash. It reported that Ms. Ayash "lamented that people were listening to 'total disinformation' on Islam." She then engaged in a classic example of real disinformation - or what Shariah calls taqqiya - claiming, "There's no conflict with the U.S. Constitution in Shariah law."

Now, even the most superficial review of Shariah shows that statement to be preposterous and misleading. In fact, among other Constitution-affronting features, Islamic law prohibits democratic law-making. It requires the replacement of constitutions and governments like ours with a global theocracy governed by Islamic law. It brutalizes women and otherwise treats them as second-class citizens and authorizes the murder of homosexuals and apostates.

Shariah is, in short, wholly incompatible with our legal system, freedoms and way of life.

Read More at: http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18487.xml

NOTE: Our emphasis added