A Manhattan lawyer with ties to the Saudi royal family is floating to officials and community leaders a potential plan to move the controversial Ground Zero
mosque away from its proposed site near the World Trade Center to another Manhattan neighborhood.

Attorney Dudley Gaffin is claiming King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia might want to buy shuttered St. Vincent's Medical Center in the West Village and transfer the mosque to a new Islamic cultural center he would build on a plot at the site, say sources who have heard Gaffin's pitch.

The king, worth more than $20 billion, would also save the hospital, reopening most of the units that closed when St. Vincent's filed for bankruptcy on April 14, the sources said.

They say that Gaffin, who heads his own firm in lower Manhattan, is floating the idea to gauge what the reaction might be -- and to ready a bid to rival the Rudin Organization, which is trying to snap up St. Vincent's in bankruptcy court with an eye on tearing down six hospital buildings for luxury housing.

"He's asking what it would take to put in a bid," said one community leader who did not want to be identified.

"He says the king wants to do this as a PR move -- to save the hospital and move the mosque away from the World Trade Center site," the source added. "He wants to show that Muslims can do good works."


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A good thing!

It's great that he want to show the best side of Muslims. Some
kind of a move like this will undoubtedly happen eventually. The
site was a poor selection and the Muslims of NY need a nice place
as a focus for their community.

Of course there are many more things that the leaders of Muslim
and Arabic countries could do to improve their image and demonstrate
leadership. Chief among these are recognition of Israel as a Jewish
state, offering generous resettlement of some Palestinian refugees in
other countries, urge deeper concessions on the part of the
Palestinians in negotiations and working more closely and openly with
the rest of the world to eliminate the scourge or militant Islam. Why
not go for a home run instead of just building a Mosque and community
center in Manhattan?

Good Post! Sadly, many thrive on hatred and create generations of the same "give up nothing" attitude. Many Arabs think that they can just out breed the Jews in Israel and eventually push them out completely.

People believe what they were taught to believe.