There are two news articles in different papers today that shine new light on the leadership of the Ground Zero Mosque initiative.
CBS in NYC is reporting that since 1990, El Gamel has had 3 disorderly arrests and has pled guilty twice to Larceny and DWI. Previously, he was reported as behind in his property taxes.
The WSJ is reporting various correspondence and other writings of Iman Rauf in which he repeated praises the Mullah's rule of Iran, and also various anti Israel writings. An example of these is a pro-Anwar Sadat letter in which he seems to imply that the 1979 peace treaty with Israel should be thought of as similar to the treaty that Mohammud made with the Meccan's which was eventually abrogated and which was followed by Mohammud's conquest of Mecca and slaughter of his enemies. |