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Update (UPDATED) NYC’s Insane Capitulation to Islam, Circa 1955—Past as Prologue?
UPDATE (h/t Hillel Stavis)
A 2006 New York Times update of this story:
Mo off his pedestal, from 1955
Images of Muhammad, Gone for Good
By JOHN KIFNER
Published: February 12, 2006 [4]
…Perhaps the longest-running — if least noticed — depiction of Muhammad in New York City was an 8-foot-tall statue on the roof of the State Appellate Division courthouse on Madison Square. The building was erected at the turn of the 20th century, back in the days when graft got you some architecture.
Muhammad was one of 10 lawgivers — among them Moses, Confucius, Justinian and Alfred the Great — along with other allegorical figures like Peace, Wisdom, Justice and the four seasons, for a total of 21 statues adorning the building.
His identity came to public light after more than 50 uneventful years when the Department of Public Works announced a $1.2 million project to repair the statues, clean the building and put up a five-story addition.
Ambassadors from Indonesia, Pakistan and Egypt went to the State Department to ask that the statue be destroyed rather then renovated. The justices in the court agreed.
So in 1955, Muhammad, who had a turban, a book, a scimitar and rather Old Testament-looking beard, lost his prominent place atop the courthouse’s southwest corner.
Everybody else was moved one spot to the left, leaving empty the pedestal that once held Justinian. Muhammad was lowered by block and tackle, wrapped in excelsior and trucked off to a stone company in Newark.
In the last reported sighting — in 1983 — the statue was lying on its side in a stand of tall grass somewhere in New Jersey.
Article printed from Andrew Bostom: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog
URL to article: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2010/08/05/nyc%e2%80%99s-insane-capitulation-to-islam-circa-1955%e2%80%94past-as-prologue/
[1] has lead NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg to capitulate to Islamic supremacism and support the odious Ground Zero mosque project: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2010/08/04/john-locke-islamic-supremacism-and-the-ground-zero-mosque/
[2] cultural jihadist Imam Faisal Rauf, and his coterie: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2010/07/23/no-to-rauf-ie-boy-the-wahhabi-and-his-ground-zero-mosque/
[3] April 9, 1955 in the New York Times: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0E11FF3D55107A93CBA9178FD85F418585F9&scp=1&sq=Mohammed+Quits+Pedestal+Here+on+Moslem+Plea+After+50+Years&st=p
[4] February 12, 2006: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/weekinreview/12kifner.html?_r=1
A 2006 New York Times update of this story:
Mo off his pedestal, from 1955
Images of Muhammad, Gone for Good
By JOHN KIFNER
Published: February 12, 2006 [4]
…Perhaps the longest-running — if least noticed — depiction of Muhammad in New York City was an 8-foot-tall statue on the roof of the State Appellate Division courthouse on Madison Square. The building was erected at the turn of the 20th century, back in the days when graft got you some architecture.
Muhammad was one of 10 lawgivers — among them Moses, Confucius, Justinian and Alfred the Great — along with other allegorical figures like Peace, Wisdom, Justice and the four seasons, for a total of 21 statues adorning the building.
His identity came to public light after more than 50 uneventful years when the Department of Public Works announced a $1.2 million project to repair the statues, clean the building and put up a five-story addition.
Ambassadors from Indonesia, Pakistan and Egypt went to the State Department to ask that the statue be destroyed rather then renovated. The justices in the court agreed.
So in 1955, Muhammad, who had a turban, a book, a scimitar and rather Old Testament-looking beard, lost his prominent place atop the courthouse’s southwest corner.
Everybody else was moved one spot to the left, leaving empty the pedestal that once held Justinian. Muhammad was lowered by block and tackle, wrapped in excelsior and trucked off to a stone company in Newark.
In the last reported sighting — in 1983 — the statue was lying on its side in a stand of tall grass somewhere in New Jersey.
Article printed from Andrew Bostom: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog
URL to article: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2010/08/05/nyc%e2%80%99s-insane-capitulation-to-islam-circa-1955%e2%80%94past-as-prologue/
[1] has lead NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg to capitulate to Islamic supremacism and support the odious Ground Zero mosque project: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2010/08/04/john-locke-islamic-supremacism-and-the-ground-zero-mosque/
[2] cultural jihadist Imam Faisal Rauf, and his coterie: http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2010/07/23/no-to-rauf-ie-boy-the-wahhabi-and-his-ground-zero-mosque/
[3] April 9, 1955 in the New York Times: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0E11FF3D55107A93CBA9178FD85F418585F9&scp=1&sq=Mohammed+Quits+Pedestal+Here+on+Moslem+Plea+After+50+Years&st=p
[4] February 12, 2006: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/weekinreview/12kifner.html?_r=1
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/nyregion/25quarter.html
Yes that article is worth understanding and political corruption has long been a part of N.Y.C. since Tamany Hall. Its also interesting to read this article as well. At that time (the 1950's) there was a thriving Islamic community downtown without any political conflicts or concerns but I believe that was before the emergent fundamentalism under the Muslim Brotherhood took over some of those countries and I believe that should have been included in the article. Unfortunately both sides of the media have their own outlook on issues and its hard to obtain what is the direct truth.
Yes that article is worth understanding and political corruption has long been a part of N.Y.C. since Tamany Hall. Its also interesting to read this article as well. At that time (the 1950's) there was a thriving Islamic community downtown without any political conflicts or concerns but I believe that was before the emergent fundamentalism under the Muslim Brotherhood took over some of those countries and I believe that should have been included in the article. Unfortunately both sides of the media have their own outlook on issues and its hard to obtain what is the direct truth.
Hummmmm thought someone snatched it maybe it will appear somewhere else .
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