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David Frum: Is the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ a publicity stunt?
August 10, 2010 – 12:03 pm
A woman protests on Aug. 3 as New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission rules in favour of demolishing a 152-year-old building, potentially clearing the way for a controversial Islamic centre.
The lower Manhattan mosque has provoked many doubts and suspicions. Here’s mine: the whole thing is a phony-baloney publicity stunt by a developer in search of project financing.
Maybe an old joke about the development industry can set the stage:
A developer bursts through the door of the office bubbling with good news for his partner: “Hey Sheldon — I had to look at photographs of old man Weinstein’s grandchildren for two hours, but we’ve finally got a deal. He agreed to sell us the Maple Street land assembly, and I knocked the price down to $20-million!”
Sheldon answers: “That’s fabulous news — great work — congratulations!”
“Yeah, well there is some bad news too. He needs $10,000 in cash.”
OK, bear that in mind as you read this very important report by Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein in the New York Post.
The site for the proposed Cordoba Islamic Center is now occupied by two buildings on Park Place in New York: one the now-famous Burlington Coat factory; the other an adjoining property that used to function as a Con Edison substation. The mosque developers are often said to own both buildings. That turns out to be not exactly true.
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Maybe an old joke about the development industry can set the stage:
A developer bursts through the door of the office bubbling with good news for his partner: “Hey Sheldon — I had to look at photographs of old man Weinstein’s grandchildren for two hours, but we’ve finally got a deal. He agreed to sell us the Maple Street land assembly, and I knocked the price down to $20-million!”
Sheldon answers: “That’s fabulous news — great work — congratulations!”
“Yeah, well there is some bad news too. He needs $10,000 in cash.”
OK, bear that in mind as you read this very important report by Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein in the New York Post.
The site for the proposed Cordoba Islamic Center is now occupied by two buildings on Park Place in New York: one the now-famous Burlington Coat factory; the other an adjoining property that used to function as a Con Edison substation. The mosque developers are often said to own both buildings. That turns out to be not exactly true.
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