SIOA Appeals to Cordoba Initiative to Drop Ground Zero Mosque Project In the Name of Mutual Respect and Understanding

PR Newswire
June 28, 2010

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/7666/sioa-appeals-to-cordoba-initiative-to-drop-ground

NEW YORK, June 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The executive director of the human rights group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), Pamela Geller, has issued an open letter to the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife Daisy Khan, the leaders of the Cordoba Initiative, asking them to act according to the respect and understanding they espouse by dropping their plans to build an Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero.

SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.

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The Cordoba Initiative's mission statement says that the group hopes to create among Jews, Christians and Muslims an "atmosphere of interfaith tolerance and respect that we have longed for since Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together in harmony and prosperity eight hundred years ago."

However, scholars have established that Christians and Jews were actually subjugated under harsh Islamic rule in Cordoba eight hundred years ago. Islamic scholar Raymond Ibrahim points out that "eight hundred years ago,' i.e., around 1200, the fanatical Almohids -- ideological predecessors of al-Qaeda -- were ravaging Cordoba, where 'Christians and Jews were given the choice of conversion, exile, or death.'"...

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