Thread: Ground Zero Mosque Funding–Media Matters Tries Change Subj

The Saudi prince’s investment in News Corp. is public. The sponsors of the Ground Zero mosque, by contrast, appear to have something to hide.

Ground Zero Mosque Funding – Media Matters Tries To Change The Subject

2010 August 27
by Joseph Klein

Media Matters, the George Soros-funded attack machine directed against Fox News and other conservative media, is trying to discredit Fox News’ reporting on the Ground Zero mosque. Its latest salvo is to paint Fox News as hypocritical for partnering with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (Fox News-parent company News Corp.’s second-largest shareholder with holdings of 7 percent) while the network blasts the funding ties of the Saudi Prince and other foreign Islamists to the Ground Zero mosque’s Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.

You know what? I agree that there may well be some hypocrisy at the News Corp. parent company level. But all that Media Matters and friends have proven is the independence of Fox News’ reporters and commentators. Rupert Murdoch has apparently not sought to suppress the broadcasting of their investigations and opinions even when potentially embarrassing to the parent company’s second largest shareholder.

Indeed, one progressive blogger proved this very point without meaning to, when he talked about the New York Post’s linkage of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal to Rauf:

Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post reported last May, the Kingdom Foundation, al-Waleed’s personal charity, has donated a total of $305,000 to Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow, a leadership and networking project sponsored jointly by two of Rauf’s organizations, the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative.

Moreover, News Corp.’s funding is out in the open. The Saudi prince’s investment in News Corp. is public, along with his company’s investments in such businesses as Citibank, the Four Seasons hotel chain and the Fairmont Hotel chain. The sponsors of the Ground Zero mosque, by contrast, appear to have something to hide.

Sharif el-Gamal’s financial backer Hisham Elzanaty needs to explain the allegations of racketeering and fraud he has faced in connection with his medical businesses, in order to allay concerns that his involvement with the developer behind the Ground Zero mosque is not following the same alleged ’shell game’ pattern.

Most importantly, there are many folks across the political spectrum who are opposed to the location of the Ground Zero mosque, or at least want answers to legitimate questions about its sources of funding. That does not change because one of the critics – Fox News – has decided to partner with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Once again, the Soros attack machine and its progressive allies are trying to change the subject, rather than deal with the underlying concerns of a majority of the American people.

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The recent debate over the Ground Zero Mosque, now innocuously called “Park51″ by the AP and other nitwits, has been instructive on several levels.


We’ve learned a great deal about the liberal mindset that thinks a Christmas creche on a courthouse lawn, or a cross on a desolate Mojave hilltop, is a grave affront to the “separation of church and stateâ€

A little more on the type of people who want to build a Islamic mosque at or very near ground zero( or can I call it our hallowed ground) ..

These are the same people who think it is okay to call France's first Lady a prostitute for supporting the Islamic women they plan to stone to death..if adultery is wrong are the men stoned as well? Will an apology be forth coming for this First Lady or the people of France do you think?

Of course this is my opinion....But then again what should we expect from the same NY politicians who haven't allowed the Greek Church to be RE-built for some unknown reason, but are allowing or sanctioning this building only 500 feet away from ground zero knowing all these things....

I may be off base here but it is the way I feel...



Iranian Newspaper, Lashing Out at Critics of Stoning Sentence, Calls France’s First Lady A Prostitute
Monday, August 30, 2010
By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor




French President Nicolas Sarkozy and first lady Carla Bruni photographed with the Emir of Qatar and his wife in Paris on Monday June 22, 2009. (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) – Iran risked unleashing a new diplomatic row with a Western government at the weekend when a newspaper closely linked to the regime called France’s first lady a “prostitute.â€