Major investor of 51 Park Place/"Ground Zero Mosque" ready to sell if price is right.

[no_hypocrisy]

Yup, money not religion determines whether a proposed controversial community center gets built two blocks from "Ground Zero".

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/mosque_man_caves_9atMdGQI1Myq7dOHoRMa2O

A major investor in the mosque near Ground Zero said yesterday he is ready to pull the plug and sell some or all of the site if the price is right.

Hisham Elzanaty, an Egyptian-born businessman who says he provided a majority of the financing to gain control over the two buildings where an Islamic community center and mosque would be built, said he already has received offers for three times the $4.8 million price of the site.

"Develop it, raze it, sell it," Elzanaty, who lives on Long Island, told the Associated Press.

"If someone wants to give me 18 or 20 million dollars today, it's all theirs."

[dkf]

1. Eyikes. Now what?

[iamjoy]

2. That's Great

So, imagine you own some property in lower Manhattan, but because of the whole real estate crisis you can't sell it for anywhere near a decent price. So, hint that you want to build a mosque (er, community center) there and let the Conservatives go crazy. Then suggest that you might be willing to sell the property and build your Islamic Center somewhere else, if only you could get a decent price for that land.

I'm not saying that's what's happened. But it would be kind of ironic if he ended up making money off of the whole fuss. Either way, it's time for the Islamaphobes to put up or shut up.

[Javaman]

3. This is what I have been saying regarding this non-trovercy all along...

This issue has so little to do with the building being a Mosque, that was the ginned up cover story to insight the mouth breathing masses, its always been about real estate.

the right wing are such easy and willing tools in the pursuit of a buck.

That is one valuable piece of land. It went from nothing to expensive in a bigoted heart beat.