Staten Island meeting turns ugly. (WCBS)
NYC: Staten Island Mosque Protest News Stories
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/mosque-protests/staten-island.html
-- June 10, 2010: Proposed Midland Beach mosque controversy: 2 sides remain
worlds apart
http://www.silive.com/eastshore/index.ssf/2010/06/proposed_midland_beach_mosque.html
-- Staten Island Advance: Staten Island convent sale, proposed Midland Beach
mosque, the ultimate hot potato
http://www.silive.com/eastshore/index.ssf/2010/06/staten_island_convent_sale_the.html
-- SI Advance video link
http://videos.silive.com/staten-island-advance/2010/06/mas_is_rejected_at_mosque_hear.html
| MAS is Rejected at Mosque Hearing in Midland Beach |
-- NYC WCBS TV: Mosque Proposal On Staten Island Turns Into Chaos
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/staten.island.mosque.2.1742965.html
-- WCBS-TV: Muslim American Society Questioned Over Mosque
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/staten.island.mosque.2.1745014.html
-- New York Magazine: "Opposition to a New Mosque, Without the Ground Zero
Excuse This Time"
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/06/more_opposition_to_a_new_mosqu.html
-- New York Times: "Heated Opposition to a Proposed Mosque"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/nyregion/11mosque.html?hp
-- CBS News: "Mosque Plans Ignite Terror Fears, Inflame Tensions in NYC Borough"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20007375-504083.html
-- WABC-TV News: Debate rages over proposed Staten Island mosque
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7488854
-- WABC TV Video Link
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7489288
-- Beliefnet: Struggle Over Proposed Mosque In Staten Island
http://blog.beliefnet.com/windowsanddoors/2010/06/struggle-over-proposed-mosque.html
-- New York Archbishop Dolan: "Yes, it is acceptable to ask questions about
security, safety, the background and history of the groups hoping to build and
buy. What is not acceptable is to prejudge any group, or to let fear and bias
trump the towering American (and for us Catholics, the religious) virtues of
hospitality, welcome, and religious freedom."
http://blog.archny.org/?p=725
-- FOX-NY News: Heated Mosque Meeting on Staten Island
-- "St. Margaret Mary's Parish has struck a deal to sell an unused property in
the Midland Beach section of the borough to the Muslim American Society, which
intends to turn it into a mosque and community center. The Archdiocese of New
York has signed off on the sale."
-- "The plan is a reflection of Staten Island's growing Muslim population, but
it has drummed up opposition and concerns from other residents of the
neighborhood."
-- "Part of the concern stems from a video posted on a conservative website that
shows one member of the Muslim American Society, Mahdi Bray, apparently voicing
support for Hezbollah and Hamas."
-- "But the Muslim American Society says the video was shot long before Bray
worked with the society. Also, he told the Staten Island Advance : 'I
categorically deny that I am a supporter of or that I am a terrorist
supporter.'"
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/beliefnet/tensions-high-at-staten-island-convent-to-mosque-meeting-20100609-akd
-- FOX News Video
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/beliefnet/tensions-high-at-staten-island-convent-to-mosque-meeting-20100609-akd
IPT Report on MAS Mahdi Bray
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2001/mahdi-brays-slippery-evasions
IPT Video of MAS Mahdi Bray at Lafayette Park Rally 10/28/2000
http://www.investigativeproject.org/document/id/35
Images:
Staten Island meeting turns ugly. (WCBS)
"Hundreds of Midland Beach residents packed into the civic association's meeting. Some of the panel's remarks were drowned out by catcalls and boos from the crowd." (Photo: Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)
"Hoda Zaabal, at a meeting Wednesday, spoke in favor of the Muslim American Society's plan to open a mosque in an empty convent on Staten Island." " (Photo: Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)
"From left, Ayman Hammous, Abdel Hafid Djamil and Mohamed Sadeia of the Muslim American Society." (Photo: Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)