BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Come on, Barry - who are you fooling? You're the most blindly pro-Muslim President we've ever had. O.K. - we get it. Not all Muslims are bad... but a Mosque near Ground Zero is the height of inappropriate, not to mention it will become a target for those still angry over the events of 9/11/01. As Charles Krauthammer said just the other day: When we speak of Ground Zero as hallowed ground, what we mean is that it belongs to those who suffered and died there -- and that such ownership obliges us, the living, to preserve the dignity and memory of the place, never allowing it to be forgotten, trivialized or misappropriated. That's why Disney's 1993 proposal to build an American history theme park near Manassas Battlefield was defeated by a broad coalition that feared vulgarization of the Civil War (and that was wiser than me; at the time I obtusely saw little harm in the venture). It's why the commercial viewing tower built right on the border of Gettysburg was ta...

I will say, upfront, I have a connection to the Santora family. And yes, I think this is a bad idea. Insensitive, rude and inviting trouble for all parties concerned. NYers wage jihad vs. WTC mosque By Tom Topousis and Joe Mollica Angry relatives of 9/11 victims last night clashed with supporters of a planned mosque near Ground Zero at a raucous community-board hearing in Manhattan. After four hours of public debate, members of Community Board 1 finally voted 29-1 in support of the project. Nine members abstained, arguing that they wanted to table the issue and vote at a later date. The board has no official say over whether the estimated $100 million mosque and community center gets built. But the panel's support, or lack of it, is considered important in influencing public opinion. Holding up photos of loved ones killed in the Twin Towers and carrying signs such as, "Honor 3,000, 9/11 -- No mosque!" opponents of the proposed Cordoba House on Park Place called th...

While approval from the 50-member board is  not needed to build the center, the vote may indicate how residents of lower Manhattan feel about the idea. "The community board is a good barometer of the sentiment of the people in that neighborhood," said Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. "Many of the people on the Community Board are people who stayed in the neighborhood after 9/11, who had to rebuild this area," he said. "These are good people with good instincts." The board's 12-member Financial District committee unanimously voted in favor of the project earlier this month. "From my perspective, there's not a lot to dislike about the project," said Ro Scheffe, 59, a member of the committee who runs a communications firm and lives three blocks from Wall St. Foes - including some members of the board - argue an Islamic community center so close to Ground Zero is insensitive to the families of people who died on 9/11. T...

I was here in NYC for 9/11. My ex is a 9/11 survivor. I vividly remember what this City was like in the week following this horror. I have been following this mosque story and I am horrified. Stunned & horrified. Religious Tolerance in the U.S. is a TWO-WAY street! Have we forgotten that too? Short on Allah dollars By ISABEL VINCENT, MELISSA KLEIN and TOM TOPOUSIS Last Updated: 2:22 PM, May 16, 2010 Dreams by a Muslim group to build a mosque near Ground Zero may not match its means. The ambitious and immediately controversial proposal to create the $100 million religious and cultural center does not seem to be backed by any cash. The American Society for Muslim Advancement, which proposed the center, has assets of less than $1 million, according to its most recent audited financial statement. A sister organization, the Cordoba Initiative, listed assets of less than $20,000 in 2008. Its tax filings do not disclose at least $60,000 in private contributions, a Post anal...

FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S SOMEWHAT TRUE! I love the Onion. When I worked I would often spend my lunch hours reading the free papers around NYC and trying not to choke on a tuna sandwich from laughing. I know from writing & performing comedy that truth is the funniest material there is. Here's a couple on recent events from The Onion that are not to be missed! The Mideast Peace Talks At last week's historic Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, MD, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sat down to begin the peace process. Here is what they agreed on: Jews will have East Jerusalem from January to June and Palestinians will have it from June to December To just meet again in another seven years The Gaza Strip is the rightful land of anybody who is nuts enough to live there Each country gets a pass on one rocketing per year Matzo/falafel cross-marketing campaign could be huge To at least fight over some nicer land Leave Becky Reynolds, wh...

WHO INVITED HIM? Gotta hand it to Columbia University. First it was an Islamofascist Professor. Now they invite this piece of walking, talking excrement to my city. FEH!! THIS is how we fight terror? Did you figure, it's already here so let's bring its poster boy here too to spew more poison into the minds of the students at Columbia. I've been at parties where there's an uninvited guest. But this one was INVITED. So tell me Columbia - which BRAINIAC at your esteemed institution thought this would be a GOOD IDEA? HUH? The LasT StraW: Ahmin-theMood-forJihad in N.Y. Excerpts: The United States Secret Service will accompany Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Ground Zero if he ultimately decides to go to the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, sources in the New York City government and United States Secret Service said. Secret Service Will Accompany Iranian President If He Goes to Ground Zero And now he has decided not to go………….as if this is his decision...