I cannot imagine why Bloomberg would support an Islamic center. Hmmm, let me think.... ah, ha!
"The company (Bloomberg's) has also been developing an Islamic finance portal (in the Middle East), which Mr Linnington said would be helped by having more people on the ground building relationships.
Particularly since the meltdown of the western capitalist system, there has been an increasingly large focus on the virtues of Islamic finance,? he said. ?Today, there is no one single provider of information that caters to the Islamic finance market. So by Bloomberg being here, we are in the process of building out an Islamic finance product. We are very confident that we can build a product that meets the needs of the market right now.?
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BTW, it isn't Islam that scares people so much as it is extreme Muslims. From this morning's news:
Afghan girls fall ill after apparent gas poisoning
Wed Aug 25, 9:45 am ET
KABUL (Reuters) ? About 40 schoolgirls became ill and were taken to hospital after a suspected gas poisoning in the Afghan capital Wednesday, another apparent attack by hardline Islamists opposed to female education.
The Taliban banned education for girls during their Afghan rule from 1996-2001, but have condemned similar attacks in the past. They have, however, set fire to dozens of schools, threatened teachers and even attacked schoolgirls in rural areas.
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More reasons why Americans are upset: just reported yesterday by the AP press and posted on MSNBC, Obama will spend millions of US taxpayer dollars on restoring historic sites including mosques in 55 nations.
""The fund has demonstrated America's respect for the world's cultural heritage," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said last month in announcing the 2010 projects." (
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How about this news from the New York Post yesterday? Wonder why people in NY ARE upset?
HS test 'slams' Christianity, lauds Islam
By YOAV GONEN Education Reporter
State testmakers played favorites when quizzing high-schoolers on world religions -- giving Islam and Buddhism the kid-gloves treatment while socking it to Christianity, critics say.
Teachers complain that the reading selections from the Regents exam in global history and geography given last week featured glowing passages pertaining to Muslim society but much more critical essay excerpts on the subject of Christianity.
"There should have been a little balance in there," said one Brooklyn teacher who administered the exam but did not want to be identified.
"To me, this was offensive because it's just so inappropriate and the timing of it was piss-poor," he added, referring to the debate over the plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero.
..."I can see why some people might see these questions as skewed," said Mark MacWilliams, a religious-studies professor at St. Lawrence University in upstate Canton. "Why does the exam seem to have only documents that portray Islam as a religion of peace, civilization and refinement, while it includes documents about Christianity that show it was anything but peaceful in the Spanish conquest of the Americas?"...
Read more:
Teachers, scholars question balance of religious portrayal on NYS Global Studies regents - NYPOST.com
Read more:
Teachers, scholars question balance of religious portrayal on NYS Global Studies regents - NYPOST.com
Had enough? How about MSNBC host calling all protesters of the mosque at world trade towers, "frustrated whiteys" and "aryians?"
Believe it or not, at 51:57 marker he suggests that everyone has bigger fish to fry and that they should go after "
Obama and his lieutenants running around the hills of Afghanistan."
