New York – Federal prosecutors are taking steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization.
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The organization _ called the Alavi Foundation _ has long been suspected of being under Iranian government control. Prosecutors say the foundation has been helping to illegally funnel money back to the Iranian government.
The government filed a forfeiture action in federal court in New York to seize four mosques in the city and in Maryland, California and Houston. The government also wants to take control of a 36-story office tower on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
The filing starts what could be a drawn-out legal process.
The action against the Shiite Muslim mosques is sure to inflame relations between the U.S. government and American Muslims. Many of them are fearful of a backlash after last week’s Fort Hood shooting rampage, blamed on a Muslim American soldier.
The mosques and the office tower will remain open while the forfeiture case works its way through court.
I smell trouble, Hashem Yerachem!
“Last week’s Fort Hood rampage BLAMED on a muslim American soldiar?!?!” What do they mean by “Blamed”? It was perpertrated entirely and solely by one muslim soldiar. It appears that the media coverup of who the true cold-blooded murderer of those 13 soldiars was has already begun.How sadly typical…
How many times has Ahmad******* declared war on Israel and US without saying the word “war”? He personifies Amalek today. Anything he touches should either be destroyed or confiscated. The Feds have been sitting on their hands for too long with the fear of “offending” a bunch of terror lovers. It’s high time that someone finally did something. They should also find a way to expedite the issue instead of allowing it to linger through reams of red tape. Hey, Obama – this is part of the “War on terror”. Take it seriously. And don’t give us the baby crying about how Bush left this behind.
check the wording of the article “Many of them are fearful of a backlash after last week’s Fort Hood shooting rampage, blamed on a Muslim American soldier. “
Blamed? BLAMED?? As though there is some doubt as to who did it or whether or not he is a muslim???
Gimme a break
mazel tov its about time after 30 years that we start hitting them real hard where it hurts them the most in their pockets i hope this is a good start those muhlahs evil knows no bounds they are the real satans that which they accuse usa of they themselfs are
Its about time. Every Mosque that any terrorist was appart of should be buged for the safty of all americans. Good Job FBI.
Hum, PMO etc. , was wondering why they pick on mosqes, muslim soldiers( wor radio reports they’re about to arrest 100’s of muslim soldiers)..why didnt they pick on protestant , jewish house of worship.etc.or chareidy shuls where they preach to make ponzi schemes,perverts (isnt that what guys like you fire back when you dont have anything intelligent to retort?
Not only Is this government action long overdue but it shouldn’t stop here there must be many more of such setups around the country.
Interesting – done by Obama
first off the guy who shot up fort hood was being watched by our government even yemen knew about this is guy. we also knew that the world trade center was going to be attacked. why didnt the government stop any of these atrocities?
now they want to steal the property of muslim people because they are iranian? why not shut down an iranian jewish center too? i mean its not just the muslim iranians we cant trust right? there are jews in the iranian army. that would be racist and yidden would never tolerate that! not to mention the ayatollahs of iran issued a fatwa declaring judaism and zionism separate.
we are so happy to see arab getting kicked around. meanwhile jews lived well and continue to live well in Iran and jews once lived peacefully in the arab world until the bankers created israel which sent the arab world into a frenzy as their once great free empire was now being overrun with their worst fears europeans.
usually they come for us first. once they get through with the muslims they will be right back to abusing us.
I don’t know. This sounds like entrapment. It may be a frame up because the FBI has it in for the muslims.
what if, chas v’shalom, Israel was declared an enemy of the US or other governments and the government decided to, l’havdil, take shuls? This action seems questionable. why haven’t the heads of the organization been arrested?
There is the saying achrei mos kedoshim the FBI feels bapished, they didn’t stop that bum from killing 13 of our boys , yeh now they do all kinds of stuff , they were busy nitpicking rubashkin making sure he gets to the slammer…
let me know when the US Goverment is giving away these skyscrapers…
Aside from property grab, if this is warranted, then there are people who are supporting terror here, which is a crime. We should be arresting and prosecuting. Any such thing, or are we going to be patsies about terrorists again?
Ironic how the Fifth Avenue building is called the “Pahlavi Building” and was designed in 1978 for the Pahlavi Foundation which was founded by Mohamed Reza Pahlavi…. the pro-western Shah of Iran who was deposed in the Islamic Coup of the Ayatollah in 1979.
It is still majority owned by the ex-Shah’s foundation, who was protected by the USA and other Western governments and banks.
But, since a percentage of the building is also suspected of being owned by an Iranian bank (possibly for the original mortgage, back in the 70s?) – the US has been trying to seize the entire building since 2008 (when the seizure request was submitted)…
Sounds like an Obama get-rich-quick scheme, to steal a multi-million-dollar building so the US government can get some easy and free money to pay for their social excesses…
Socialism? or Communism? You decide.
Smart,
I have a deal for you. I’m selling my stake in Brooklyn Bridge.
The U.S. should take immediate action against Iran.