Tag Archives: State: New York

The Boston Globe: “Governor Deval Patrick, who this spring became the state’s first sitting governor to visit a mosque, lent his support yesterday to an Islamic Center proposed near ground zero, stepping into the middle of a growing national furor over locating a Muslim house of worship so near the site of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”

Law.com: “A federal appeals panel has thrown out a child pornography conviction that was based on explicit photographs texted by a 17-year-old to her field-hockey coach. The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals held there was no evidence that defendant Todd Broxmeyer asked 17-year-old ‘A.W.’ to take the pictures, and therefore no evidence that he ‘produced’ them as defined by the federal child pornography statutes.” | USA v. Broxmeyer, No. 09-1457-cr (2nd Cir. Aug. 3, 2010)

The Wall Street Journal has the full text of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “speech following a vote that clears most major hurdles for the construction of a planned mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero”: “Of all our precious freedoms, the most important may be the freedom to worship as we wish. And it is a freedom that, even here in a City that is rooted in Dutch tolerance, was hard-won over many years . . . with or without landmark designation, there is nothing in the law that would prevent the owners from opening a mosque within the existing building. The simple fact is this building is private property, and the owners have a right to use the building as a house of worship . . . The government has no right whatsoever to deny that right – and if it were tried, the courts would almost certainly strike it down as a violation of the U.S. Constitution.” | Via Religion Clause

Associated Press: “Even as the project’s backers celebrated the decision, a conservative advocacy group founded by the Rev. Pat Robertson announced it would challenge the panel’s vote in state court Wednesday.”

“There has got to be one rule, and that one rule may not in the American constitutional tradition discriminate between faiths . . . I do not believe the Ground Zero mosque should be built”

Wall Street Journal: “On the eve of expected city approval of a mosque and Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero, backers of the project are pledging to include a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks as part of an effort to allay opponents’ complaints that the mosque’s location is insensitive.”

The Hill: “On Tuesday, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) praised the center’s progress, saying that it represents the core of American values.”

Fox News: “The debate over Park 51′s construction has grown beyond the borders of downtown Manhattan into a national controversy, demonstrated by a television ad produced by the National Republican Trust Political Action Committee, which uses graphic imagery from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks to argue that the construction of a mosque and Islamic center two blocks north of Ground Zero would constitute ‘an invitation for more.’”

ACLJ: “The ACLJ is planning to file an Article 78 petition in state court to challenge the city’s actions. The ACLJ will allege that there’s been an abuse of discretion in the Commission’s decision and that filing is expected to occur tomorrow.”

Walll Street Journal: “The commission’s chairman, Robert B. Tierney, said the building at 45-47 Park Place ‘does not rise to the level of an individual landmark.’ The 11-member panel is appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has vehemently defended the mosque as an example of religious freedom.”

Associated Press: “The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 9-0, saying the 152-year-old building blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks wasn’t special or distinctive enough to meet criteria to qualify as a landmark. Commissioners also said that other buildings from the era were better examples of the building’s style.”

Frank Gaffney writing at Townhall: “In fact, it is not ‘bashing’ all Muslims if one points out that the comprehensive doctrine to which some of them adhere is a threat to our liberties, our government and our way of life. Objectively, that is the case; a global theocracy – the end-state commanded by Shariah – administering a severely repressive, even barbaric criminal code aimed at enforcing submission by Muslims and non-Muslims alike is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution.”

Cal Thomas writing at Townhall: “Radical Islamists are here. Who else besides Newt Gingrich and too few others will sound the call? Who else has the power to do something while they still can?”

Blake Hounshell writes at Foreign Policy / Passport: “That’s right, I’m talking about George W. Bush. Much as Muslims around the world may have despised his foreign policy and his interrogation and detention policies, the former president spoke out repeatedly and eloquently against attacks on Muslims, and visited an Islamic center several days after 9/11 to send the message that Muslims were not the enemy. He may not have much standing in the Islamic community today, but he still retains a broad following on the right.”

Bloomberg: “The New York City Police Department will increase foot patrols at mosques during Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting that begins in August, as hate crimes against Muslims have increased from last year.”

CNSNews: “Jordan Sekulow, attorney for the American Center for Law and Justice, said the group has filed written testimony with the New York Landmark Preservation Commission to try to halt the joint plan of the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement to build a mosque to replace a building just two blocks from Ground Zero. The landing gear of one of the planes commandeered by Muslim terrorists on Sept. 11 crashed through the roof of the building that the ACLJ wants to preserve.”

Kristin Davis writing at The Daily Caller: “The leaders of this mosque have ties to radical Islam. They have lied about the sources of their funding. They have gone on the record blaming American ideology for the events of 9/11. They perpetuate a radical ideology – an ideology that goes against everything Americans (Muslim Americans included) stand for.”

Law.com: “The city’s legal services sector, largely comprised by law firms, added 1,600 jobs in June, up 2.1 percent from May. But the numbers are below the 2,600 jobs added in June 2009 and below the decade average of 2,800 during the period when many law firms are adding summer associates. There were 79,800 total jobs in the legal section.”

NY Daily News: “The board of trustees of a Staten Island Catholic Church has rejected the controversial sale of an old convent building to a Muslim group to build a mosque. The sale had sparked two months of angry rallies when word got out that Father Keith Fennessy of Saint Margaret Mary church had quietly agreed to sell the vacant building to the Muslim American Society for $750,000.”

NEWT.org: “There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.”

Padraic O’Hare, Professor of Religious and Theological Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, writing at The Washington Post / On Faith: “We need more mosques – as well as churches, synagogues and ashrams – at Ground Zero; in Bay Ridge in my beloved hometown of Brooklyn; on Staten Island, and all over!”

Peter Gadiel writing at USA Today: “The proposed mosque near the site of the 9/11 mass murder is a continuation of Islam’s violent history, which promotes destroying prior cultures and building on the ruins.”

AP: “Dozens of opponents and some supporters of a mosque planned near ground zero attended a raucous hearing Tuesday about whether the building where the Muslim place of worship would be created warrants designation as a city landmark and should be protected from development.”

CNSNews: “In an interview with The Associated Press, Rep. Peter King raised concerns about the sources of funding for the proposed $100 million mosque, just blocks away from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, where nearly 3,000 Americans died at the hands of Islamic terrorists.”

Reuters: “Muslim parents, students and civic groups are campaigning to add two of their religious holidays to the New York City public school calendar, pinning their hopes on state lawmakers after failing to win over Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the idea.”

Boston Globe (AP): “New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says it would be un-American to investigate a mosque that is planned for construction near where the World Trade Center once stood.”

Leonard Link: “New York City Civil Court Judge Laurie L. Lau ruled on June 2 that the owner of a four-apartment building in Brooklyn could not treat her former same-sex partner as a mere “licensee” who could be forced to vacate the apartment in which they had lived together at the owner’s option, since they were “family” members under the precedent of the 1989 New York Court of Appeals decision, Braschi v. Stahl Associates. Phelps v. Ray-Chaudhuri, No. 54177/10 (N.Y.City Civ. Ct., Kings Co., June 2, 2010) (NYLJ, 7/8/2010, p. 29).”

ADF Attorney Travis C. Barham writing at Speak Up Movement / University: “Hayon’s first brush with Kingsborough came last March, when officials blocked him from distributing pro-life newsletters on campus to other students. Attorneys for the Alliance Defense Fund sent a letter affirming Hayon’s constitutionally protected right to do so, and college administrators quickly backed down. However, that same month, they managed to derail his first attempt at the marriage forum. In May, Hayon tried again, hoping to see the event happen before the end of the school year. Shortly before the event, though, the dean came up with some restrictions—including letting a Kingsborough official moderate the event—and threatened to cancel the whole thing, again, if Hayon didn’t play along.”

The Buffalo News: “A gay rights group is joining the campaign against Democratic State Sen. William T. Stachowski of Lake View by blanketing Erie County voters with a mailing that urges his defeat. … The flier makes no specific mention of Stachowski’s vote against legalizing same-sex marriage but indicates that his re-election would not be expected to yield a different result. However, an e-mail accompanying the announcement of the campaign and seeking financial support said Stachowski has consistently voted against the interests of the gay community.”

Washington Times: “Three separate plans to build Muslim worship centers in New York City have proven more difficult and contentious than expected, igniting protests by local residents and anti-jihad activists and prompting charges of ‘Islamophobia’ and bigotry. The three projects raise different sets of issues, are set in three different boroughs, and all are still in the planning stages. But together, they show that whether its logistical concerns about neighborhood traffic and changing demographics, the sanctity of the World Trade Center site, or back-yard politics — building a mosque in New York is not like building a pizza parlor.”

New York Magazine: “Andrew Cuomo was asked by a reporter today if he thought a marriage-equality bill like the one that was defeated in the State Senate this December could pass in 2011. ‘Do I think it can? Yes,’ he replied.”

“New York state legislators have finished making it easier to receive a divorce. The state Assembly and Senate approved a package . . . [that] . . . establishes what’s called no-fault divorce—making New York the final state in the country to offer such a path to end a marriage.”

Associated Press: “New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the computer crimes unit has removed a child porn video from nearly 70,000 servers nationwide.”

USA Today: “New York spent $17,173 per student for public education in 2007-08, more than any other state and 67% more than the U.S. average, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics released Monday.”

The Daily Mail: “After four long years of being denied religious property status, a landmark court battle over a cloister of pagan witches is brewing. The Maetreum of Cybele, Magna Mater, a faction of matriarchal priestesses living in a historic Palenville inn, has filed suit against the Town of Catskill after being denied a religious property tax exemption on their three-acre parcel along Route 23A.” | Via Religion Clause.

New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedom: “A little noticed provision has been slipped into today’s Budget bills that would recognize same-sex couples married in other jurisdictions for the purposes of the Empire State’s Tax Law. This provision would allow same-sex married couples to file their state income tax returns as a married couple, regardless of whether or not they can file their federal returns in the same manner. The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act signed by then President Bill Clinton does not permit federal recognition of same-sex marriages.”

Associated Press: “Thousands of marchers and a rainbow of floats filled the streets of New York and other U.S. cities on Sunday as people celebrated gay pride, part of a weekend of events marred by a shooting death Saturday at a street party in San Francisco.”

OneNewsNow: “A college student in New York is once again getting the run-around from school officials for trying to express his religious views on campus. … Hayon, president of the student Republican Club, wanted to hold an on-campus forum entitled ‘The Economic, Political, Social, and Legal Outcome on Same-Gender Marriage’ to defend the definition of marriage as one man and one woman. … [ADF Attorney Travis Barham said] ‘[t]here’s a rule at Kingsborough that says the student group has to have a faculty advisor present at every event. The faculty advisor took advantage of that rule to insist that students give him a speaking role and give him the authority to shut down the event at anytime.’”

“True, 49 other states have adopted no-fault divorce. But New York would be unwise to discard a law has produced almost the lowest divorce rate in America.”

Gay City News: “At the end of a day when a long-stalled LGBT rights initiative suddenly jumped to the front of the line, the New York State Senate on June 22 passed the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA). The anti-bullying measure, already approved by the Assembly and supported by Governor David Paterson, provides protections based on a number of categories, including sexual orienation and gender identity.” | A03661

On Top Mag (“gay advocacy website”): “Legislation introduced by openly gay New York Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell would allow married gay and lesbian couples to file joint state tax returns. While lawmakers rejected a bill that would have legalized gay marriage in the nation’s third most populous state last year, New York is moving ahead in recognizing legal gay marriages performed outside its borders. Neighboring Connecticut, Vermont and Canada offer the institution.”

NY Times: “In the public’s imagination, the classic hate crime is an assault born of animus against a particular ethnicity or sexual orientation, like the case of the Long Island man convicted in April of killing an Ecuadorean immigrant after hunting for Hispanics to beat up. But in Queens since 2005, at least five people have been convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, committing a very different kind of hate crime — singling out elderly victims for nonviolent crimes like mortgage fraud . . . ”

Findlaw (AP): “Last week, however, the New York Senate passed a divorce reform bill, by a vote of 32-27, which would dramatically reform the law. Senate Bill 3890 would allow divorce based on the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage, regardless of whether either party had committed a particular kind of marital fault . . . In this column, I’ll explain what changes the bill would bring about, what problems it will hopefully remedy, and whether there are likely to be any adverse consequences of the new law.”

Evangelical Examiner: “Alliance Defense Fund attorneys have sent Kingsborough Community College (KCC) officials a letter Monday calling upon them to end an unconstitutional policy that allows a faculty adviser to cancel a student organization’s event and silence its message by simply not showing up for the event. … ‘The whims of government officials should not be allowed to trump the constitutionally protected rights of students whose views those officials don’t favor,’ said ADF Litigation Counsel Travis Barham.”

NY Times: “For years, lawmakers in New York have been trying to pass legislation that would protect existing abortion rights by codifying the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which guarantees rights broader than the laws still on New York’s books. The legislation, never a winner when Republicans controlled the State Senate, has been the top priority of abortion rights groups since Democrats took control of the chamber last year. But as Albany’s legislative session draws to a close, a split is emerging . . . ”

Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65K5Y720100621?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true: “Plans for mosques in New York’s Brooklyn and Staten Island boroughs also are hitting opposition, with neighbors worried about potential extremism. ‘In the beginning, it will be peaceful, but we just don’t know what they will be taught there and that bothers us,’ said Alex Davidson, 62, a repair man who lives near the proposed Brooklyn mosque. He said: “If you look at the statistics, most terrorists are Muslim.’”

The Hill: “Gay rights activists see a chance to get the gay marriage issue back into the midterm campaign conversation thanks to an upcoming court ruling in California. … Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, said his organization fully intends to make it a campaign issue this year, and said he is confident it will work, at least in California’s statewide races. The group is fully engaged in both the race for governor and attorney general. ‘I think the issue of marriage equality is clearly going to drive turnout here in California,’ Kors said.”

Alliance Defense Fund attorneys sent Kingsborough Community College officials a letter Monday calling upon them to end an unconstitutional policy that allows a faculty advisor to cancel a student organization’s event and silence its message by simply not showing up for the event.

ADF Attorney David French writing at Phi Beta Cons: “NYU is sending students to a country that not only bans homosexual sodomy, it vigorously enforces that ban and reportedly subjects imprisoned men to involuntary hormone treatments. … Why would NYU tout a new school in a place that is officially racist and reportedly engages in mandatory and bizarre forms of medical ‘treatment’ for homosexual prisoners? It couldn’t possibly be that our university culture is addicted to Arab money, could it? It can’t be that the university world has different levels of tolerance for Christians and Muslims, right? I mean, they certainly can’t tolerate pervasive anti-Semitism, can they?”

Religion Clause Blog: “A lawsuit has been filed against the village of South Blooming Grove, New York by a Satmar Hasidic group that wants to restore an old club house at a former resort on Lake Anne. Today’s Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record reports that the lawsuit, originally filed in state court but transferred to federal court on the judge’s order, claims that the village’s refusal to consider Sheri Torah’s application violates RLUIPA.”

NY Daily News: “Public school kids soon should think twice before pulling out their cell phones: The city Education Department is set to ban ‘sexting’ – even on students’ own time. Under proposed new rules, kids face suspensions of up to 90 days for texting each other suggestive pictures or notes, even outside school hours.”

Religion Clause Blog: “AP yesterday reported that the village of Sufferin, New York has settled a RLUIPA lawsuit brought against it by the Department of Justice chllenging the village’s refusal to grant a zoning variance to permit the operation of a ‘Shabbos House’ near Good Samaritan Hospital.”

NY Times: “On Tuesday evening, the State Senate approved legislation that would permit no-fault divorce after a marriage has ‘irretrievably’ broken down for six months or more, without the need to identify a fault, like adultery or abandonment. The package must still pass the State Assembly, which is considering two bills that would adopt some version of no-fault divorce . . . ”

Times Union: “Senate Democrats are prepping for today’s vote on three bills that would ‘fundamentally restructure matrimonial law,’ primarily through the addition of no-fault divorce to the existing grounds for spouses to seek the dissolution of a marriage.”

” . . . Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates . . . ”

The Post-Standard: “A federal judge today approved a lawyers’ agreement allowing a Schenectady school student to continue wearing a rosary outside his clothing pending a court hearing in September . . . Dague today said Albany-based U.S. District Judge Lawrence Kahn agreed to postpone a hearing in the case from Friday until Sept. 8 in order to give the two sides time to try and resolve the dispute over the summer.” | Related: NY judge allows student to return to school, wear Rosary

CNN: “Parents, beware of Tagged.com, says New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo threatened Thursday to sue the teen-targeted site for exposing children to graphic images of child pornography if it doesn’t develop a plan to change the way they monitor and respond to complaints of inappropriate conduct.”

Religion Clause Blog: “Today’s New York Timesreports that in 2007, the court granted summary judgment to Craig, finding that the city had “utterly failed” to explain why it could not have accommodated Craig’s religious beliefs.”

“As many as 10,000 protesters from across the country – including family members who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001 – took to the streets in New York City Sunday to fight construction of a 13-story Islamic mosque . . . ”

DNAinfo: “Civil liberties activists criticized the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York on Tuesday for not allowing a public school in Chelsea to teach sex education in a building owned by the church. The Clinton School for Writers and Artists recently agreed to move from 21st Street to a building owned by the Catholic church at the St. Michael’s Academy on 33rd Street under the condition that no sex education classes are taught at the new location.”

WHEC: “When Khammanivong [originally from Laos] pled guilty he thought he was going to jail for two to three months. In fact, the deal was 10 years in federal prison. His case before the U.S. Supreme court says his 5th, 6th and 14th amendment rights were violated when he couldn’t understand his interpreter.” | Supreme Court docket: Khammanivong v. U.S., No. 09-10673 | U.S. v. Khammanivong, No. 09-0247-cr (2nd Cir. Dec. 17, 2009)

New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedom: “On June 8, 2010, by the narrowest of margins (12-11), the New York State Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reject a bill known as the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA or the ‘Bathroom Bill’).”

ADF attorney Jordan Lorence appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss church use of public school facilities including the Bronx Household of Faith case that has been litigated for over 15 years. | MP3 10 mins | ADF media information on Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education of the City of New York

New York Post: “Only one couple showed up at the City Clerk’s Office on Worth Street downtown to take advantage of the new service, and they did it in private.”

NY Daily News: “The state’s highest court has upheld the merger of two Bronx courts, rejecting a lower court ruling that could have jeopardized 147,000 misdemeanor convictions.”

CNN: “The city clerk’s office in New York will begin conducting domestic partnership ceremonies for gay couples starting Thursday.” | Related: “New York City clerk’s offices will soon conduct civil ceremonies for gay couples”

Times Herald-Record: “A new lawsuit against Kiryas Joel and its main religious institution raises the question of whether the village has a legitimate zoning board of appeals to settle zoning disputes and grant relief from local codes.” | Via Religion Clause.

Christian Post: “U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn issued a Temporary Restraining Order to the school district that allows 13-year-old Raymond Hosier to resume classes and wear the rosary to school starting Wednesday. The American Center for Law and Justice, which represented Raymond, had only filed the federal lawsuit against the Schenectady City School District Tuesday morning.” |
R.H. v. Schenectady City School District, (ND NY, filed 6/1/2010) | For more information see Religion Clause.

Alternatives for Adult Uses Required When Town is Sued
Anthony S. Guardino, 5/26/2010 N.Y.L.J. 5, (col. 2)

“The particular issue in TJS was whether the constitutionality of a zoning ordinance should only be evaluated with regard to the ‘alternative avenues of communication‘ the ordinance left open at the time it was passed, or those it left open at the time it was challenged. In TJS, the Second Circuit held that the First Amendment required courts to consider the adequacy of alternative sites available when the ordinance was challenged. Although the ruling necessitates further proceedings in the district court in the TJS case, it also may signal the coming end of a more-than-15-year-battle over a topless bar in the Town of Smithtown on Long Island.” | TJS of New York, Inc. v. Town of Smithtown, No. 08-2789-cv (2nd Cir. March 10, 2010) [CDC Abstract]

NY Family Research Foundation: “In the early 1970’s, abortion-rights advocates urged passage of an amendment to the US Constitution known as the Equal Right Amendment (ERA). The amendment would have guaranteed equal rights under any federal, state, or local laws regardless of a person’s sex. In 1972, the ERA passed both houses of Congress, yet the ERA ultimately failed to obtain the ratification (approval) of 37 states that is necessary to amend the US Constitution before the June 30, 1982 deadline. Since the measure failed, most people thought this was the end of it, but it isn’t. On July 21, 2009, Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced the ERA in the House of Representatives. Additionally, some states continue to try to pass state-level equal rights amendments. New York is one of those states . . . ”

NY Family Research Foundation: Both houses of the New York State Legislature have introduced a bill known as the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA). GENDA is often referred to as the “Bathroom Bill” because it would allow any man who says he feels like a woman trapped in a man’s body access to women’s restrooms, locker rooms, and shower facilities. That name has gotten some traction, causing many advocates in the lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community much consternation.

ACLJ Chief Counsel Jordan Sekulow writing at the Huffington Post: “Thirteen year-old Raymond Hosier, a seventh grader at Oneida Middle School in Schenectady, New York, who has never been considered a rabble rouser, recently began wearing a rosary around his neck . . . This school district is not only violating Raymond’s constitutional rights but also impeding his education. As it turns out, Raymond knows a lot more about his constitutional rights than the school’s officials and has decided to fight them in court. Supreme Court precedent and the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) are on his side, while the school has taxpayer-funded attorneys on theirs.”

Albany Law School | Law of the Land blog: “The Walk in Love for Jesus Christ Church operated as of right in a residential district prior to a change in the zoning ordinance that now requires a special exception permit for religious uses . . . First, with respect to standing, the Court ruled that although the Church was initially incorporated as a charitable and not religious corporation, the Court will focus on the use itself and not the religious nature of the organization. Therefore, since the petitioner proposes to use the premises as a house of worship and to conduct regular services, it is a religious use. The Court then concluded that the Board’s denial was arbitrary and capricious.” | Capriola d/b/a/ Walk in Love for Jesus Christ v. Wright, 2010 WL 2000320 (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept. 5/18/2010)

NY Daily News: “The state Assembly approved legislation early Friday to more than double the number of charter schools in the state, just in time to apply for up to $700 million in federal Race to the Top Dollars.”

Fox News (see the video): “Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels and a radio talk show host, staged a one-man protest at the New York Democratic convention on Thursday. He called it a mock coronation of Andrew Cuomo . . . ”

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury writing at Hudson New York: “As a believing Muslim, it is hard to see a mosque at Ground Zero in New York City as anything other than another horror–a kick on the face to everyone who is still heavy with shock at the tragic death of 3,000 people killed by Islamist militants during the attack on 9/11. The mosque will cost over US$ 100 million; by now, money is already being shifted in the fund for its construction. Incidentally, a major segment of this money is coming from Arab nations, especially Saudis.” | For more information see this ADF Alliance Alert compound tag: http://www.alliancealert.org/tag/topic-islam+state-new-york/