Muslim Mosque Developer Calls Attention to his Diverse Heritage...

In a move that is likely do more to fuel the debate on the Ground Zero "Mosque" than to garner support for it, Sharif El-Gamal sat down with CBS's 60 Minutes to explain his heritage. He says he is a New Yorker, an American born in Brooklyn, at Methodist Hospital, to a Polish-Catholic mother and an Egyptian father and he's married to a Christian girl. Let's see, now we've got all the bases covered, he's an American because he was born on American soil but were his parents legal immigrants? He has a Catholic heritage as well as Muslim but he says he is Muslim.



El-Gamal says he wants to bring all cultures together at that spot because he "does not hold himself or his faith" accountable for the 911 attacks. Other Americans may not be so "tolerant" of that point-of-view. It seems that CBS bent over backwards to try and make this man appear mainstream by explaining to the "rubes" here in middle America that its not that easy to pick up a plot of land in Manhattan because NYC has such a vibrant Real Estate Market. Nothing to see here...move along...



The question still persists as to where Mr. El-Gamal gets his financing. He must be the luckiest rags to riches story in America. Five years ago he was a lowly waiter in a Manhattan restaurant and today he is a multi-millionaire Real Estate Developer who can't seem to pay off his smaller debts but can spend 4.5 million dollars in cash for the Burlington Coat Factory Building. Boy those tips must have been fantastic...

...and in another cultural coincidence, he also joined his local Jewish Community Center. Diversity is alive and well and living in this one man, like no other American. Maybe he is a member of the NAACP and La Raza too....

Sources:
PI Bil Warner's excellent website, 
http://www.billwarnerpi.com/2010/08/exclusivesupposed-video-of-ground-zero.html
Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugs:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/08/ground-zero-deadbeat-thug-sharif-el-gamal-owes-224g-tax.html
The New York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/mosque_big_owes_tax_rNN0l21LN43U6WhTmIawSP
Fox News via Freethought Nation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djb_oSoZLDc&feature=player_embedded