@gorillapaws I would love to believe the CIA you refer to the same CIA that missed clear signals that an attack was imminent prior to 9/11 would too be a source to rely upon to provide clarity to this discussion…but I will not hold my breath. I take my cues from public open sources not secret cloak and dagger organizations with agendas to follow. Saying that I turn to these open sources who have done due diligence and are also coming up with the same questions I am asking…who is funding this project and this is what I find…
“Claudia Rosett, a journalist with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a weekly columnist for Forbes, devoted two columns to questioning the source of the funding for the project.[40][52] Some U.S. politicians such as Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, who is an Independent Democrat, and Republicans Peter King and Rick Lazio (NY-2), asked for an investigation of the group’s finances, especially its foreign funding.[53] King said: ”The people who are involved in the construction of the mosque are refusing to say where their [$100 million] funding is going to come from.”[22][54][55] Lazio said: “Let’s have transparency. If they’re foreign governments, we ought to know about it. If they’re radical organizations, we ought to know about it.*”[23]”
“Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, noted:”
”There should be transparency about who those investors are, whether that money is coming from domestic interests or not, and if it’s coming from foreign interests we need to know, because I think that’s a liability, and it shows that there is another agenda rather than domestic security and tranquility.[39]”
This is a simple question about who is funding this project @gorillapaws not some right wingnut conspiracy agenda…the same simple question that over ½ of our country is asking for an answer to and a lot more who are thinking about this same question that this Iman and investors are refusing to answer and the same question our President is now backing away from. All they have to do is provide a simple answer to this question and the lack of an answer to me speaks volumes.