Thursday, August 19, 2010

Ground Zero Mosque: Show Me Da Money!

From Weasel Zippers:

Really.
(From a PBS Newshour transcript of Gwen Ifill discussing the Ground Zero Mosque with Rick Lazio.)
RICK LAZIO (R), New York Gubernatorial Candidate:

And the second point that I make, Gwen, is, let’s have open books. Let’s have transparency. This Cordoba Initiative, which is what they call it, has about $18,000 right now. They’re proposing to build a $100 million mosque. The cost of the purchase of the property is in excess of $5 million. Now we’re finding out that they — they need the property next door, which is utility property, for another several million dollars. Where is this money coming from? Who is behind this?

2 comments:

Total said...

"Where is this money coming from?"

Saudi Arabia.

What I don't understand is how a former waiter like Sharif El-Gamal could come up with $5 million in CASH. I guess that's the IRS's problem, though.

Pastorius said...

He made big tips.