On the New York Post website, at least one individual is continuing to use the reader “comments” sections to post terrorist threats calling for Americans to “blow up” the planned 45 Park Place, NYC mosque renovation, which has been called in the press the “ground zero mosque” (it is two blocks away from the “Ground Zero” 9/11 attack area).
As we reported on June 3, 2010, individuals have been using the NY Post reader “comments” section on articles about the 45 Park Place renovation and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to post hateful comments and to post open terrorist threats calling for the facility to be “blown up.”
We first noticed this in a NY Post article dated May 24, 2010, where a reader “Truthful” writes in the comments section that “I say let them build it and when that expensive beautiful building is built, someone should blow it up… 9when it is filled with people… What a fitting tribute to 9-11.”
May 24, 2010 - New York Post Reader Comment on 45 Park Place Mosque - Calling for Terrorist Bombing
On June 5, 2010, such threats were once again made on the NY Post website. One of the individuals making such public threats calls himself “Truthful,” “TheTruth15,” “Herman Muster,” and other screen names.
In the June 5, 2010 NY Post article, “Imam unmosqued – Ground Zero booster tied to sea clash,” by writer Andy Poltis, the New York Post links Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf as a member of a group Perdana Global Peace Organization that has provided funding for the Gaza flotilla.
The June 5 reader comments, below the article, calling for terrorism in NYC in the reader comments of the NY Post state that:
— “I know I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again: After it’s built, blow it up. Preferable on a Friday afternoon…” and “I am… advocating death again”
— (graphic snapshots of hate comments – June 5, 2010 image 1, image 2, May 24)
June 5, 2010 - New York Post Reader Comment on 45 Park Place Mosque - Calling for Terrorist Bombing
Articles on Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and the 45 Park Place mosque have seen a wide range of hate comments in the New York Post reader comments section of the newspaper, in addition to the above blatant calls for terrorist violence.
Calls for violence by Americans against the 45 Park Place mosque have also included an open call for the bombing of the 45 Park Place mosque, during a broadcast from the KPRC-950 AM radio station by Michael Berry, a regular broadcaster with a daily program on that radio station.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) condemns such calls for hate and terrorism.
R.E.A.L. has reported these comments for abuse and is writing the author of the June 5 New York Post article on this, so that the New York Post can be more vigilant in reviewing comments on such articles. We will update this post with any comments we hear back from the New York Post.
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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) promotes our universal human rights for all people and for all Americans. We reject calls for hate and violence. We reject calls to deny any of our fellow human beings their universal human rights, including their freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, and freedom of worship. We urge our fellow Americans to be consistently responsible for equality and liberty – for all people.
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