Saturday, July 17, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
A Mosque Grows Near Brooklyn - The dubious financing of 'Cordoba House' deserves scrutiny. - '...New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio called on state attorney general Andrew Cuomo, who is also Lazio's Democratic opponent in the coming election, to "conduct a thorough investigation" of three aspects of the project: - Rauf's refusal to acknowledge that Hamas is a terrorist organization; - Rauf's leading role in the Perdana Global Peace Organization, "a principal partner," in its own words, of the Turkish-launched flotilla that tried to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza; - and the project's questionable sources of funding. Lazio has been supported in this demand by New York Republican congressman Peter King...'
