We received  an email that shows the The Jazz Man’s dishonesty. He has a habit of scrambling posts that he doesn’t like. He smears the person as racist. Well this poster emailed us and here is what was deleted.

I realize that this thread is dead, but I still wanted to reply to your response. My concerns about about [sic} Rauf and the Cordoba Initiative are not really about “Islamofascism;” they are about misappropriating the memory of 9/11 to further another agenda. While the Institute’s FAQ page now states that the group chose the Park 51 site because it has always been located close to the WTC site, that is not what Rauf told the NY Times last December.

At that time, Rauf said that the Cordoba Initiative specifically chose the location based upon its proximity to Ground Zero and the fact that wreckage from that terrorist act had hit the existing building:

The location was precisely a key selling point for the group of Muslims who bought the building in July. A presence so close to the World Trade Center, “where a piece of the wreckage fell,” said Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, the cleric leading the project, “sends the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11.”

By specifically choosing a location because of its proximity to GZ, the developers of the community center, however noble their intentions, are misappropriating the memory of 9/11 to further their own agenda. As Aaron David Miller, a former State Department official who invited Arafat to the Holocaust Museum, stated recently in the Washington Post:

The risks of linking that day to anything else or confusing it with another issue are vast. However worthy the benefits of promoting interfaith dialog and greater understanding among Christians, Muslims and Jews, the realty is that the payoff will be small. We muddle in our tragic memories and those of others at our peril.