Of course they won't rule out money from Iran or Saudi Arabia.
Ground Zero mosque principal Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a trustee of the organization founded by his father in the 1960s, the Islamic Center of New York (a.k.a. Islamic Cultural Center of New York). According to
its web site, Rauf's co-trustees are described as follows: "From its inception, The Islamic Center was privileged to be established, maintained, and supervised by the Muslim Ambassadors representing their countries at the United Nations who form the Board of its trustees."
So Rauf is a
co-trustee with ambassadors from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Iran, among others.
Rauf has called America a "Sharia-compliant state" and said that the "American political structure is Sharia-compliant." An article called
"Ground Zero Mosque: The Strongest Horse" supplies the Muslim Brotherhood background for Rauf's views:
"Rauf's father was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a friend of its founder, Hassan al-Banna, and Rauf's professional and political connections are all to the Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas support network in the United States: the Council on American Islamic Relations; the Muslim American Society; the Islamic Society of North America; the International Institute of Islamic Thought. Three of these organizations were unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing trial... ."
The Muslim Brotherhood's goal, and that of
its U.S. arm, the Muslim American Society (MAS), is the "introduction of the Islamic Shari'ah as the basis controlling the affairs of state and society."
An internal document uncovered in the Holy Land Foundation trial describes the strategy for introducing Sharia (Shari'ah):
"The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions."
Membership in MAS requires reading the works of Syed Qutb, whose writings include, among other things:
"All Westerners are the same: a rotten conscience, a false civilization. How I hate these Westerners, how I despise all of them without exception."
"A Muslim has no nationality except his belief."
"There is only one law which ought to be followed, and that is the Shari'ah."
Another of their authorities, Syed Abul A'ala Maududi, expanded on the goals:
"Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a State on the basis of its own ideology and program."
There's really no mystery about why they won't rule out any sources of funds.
