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Mayor Bloomberg sued for records regarding Ground Zero mosque – JIM KOURI

During his annual Ramadan dinner this past August at Gracie Mansion, New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg told his audience that there should be no compromise, insisting that a mosque be built near Ground Zero regardless of the fact that almost 70 percent of Americans oppose such a structure so close to the site of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.

With two key organizers of the mosque in the audience — Daisy Khan, wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, and developer Sharif el-Gamal, of Soho Properties — Bloomberg said moving ahead with the project would exercise the freedoms envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

Attorneys for a public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption filed a petition on Thursday with the New York State Supreme Court to compel New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office to comply with a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request regarding contacts between the Mayor’s office, Ground Zero Mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, and controversial Muslim organizations.

The backers of the Ground Zero Mosque have virtually no money, one of the group’s leaders says, and plan to create another nonprofit organization that would further complicate the already labyrinthine financial network surrounding the project, according to a report by the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

Federal tax records show Rauf and his associate Daisy Khan direct the two groups supporting the mosque project – the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA). Those two organizations, along with Soho Properties, which owns the site of the proposed mosque and community center, are coordinating the project, wrote IPT’s Steve Emerson.

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