The Mosque in Boca

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On Thursday Katie and I stopped into the Supervisor of Elections office to congratulate Susan Bucher on her tremendous win and to thank her for keeping politics out of her doing a superb service to the voters of Palm Beach County.  This office is non-partisan. She is a Democrat, I a Republican. She mentioned that the Boca mosque was still contacting her.

Now the Boca Mosque is back in the news today. The Boca Raton mosque is still complaining about Susan Bucher's decision to move an election polling site from their mosque to a library because many people had called Bucher to complain. Now those supporting the mosqe are complaining and their liberal supporters are threatening Susan Bucher saying they will remove their church as a polling site if Bucher does not capitulate. A very Christian thing to do I would say.

Bassem Alhalabi, the president of the mosque, a place that has been proven to be anti-Semetic, said that Bucher caved-in to "bigots."  Muslims are trying to tell us all that they are peaceful and should be looked upon with respect and now are demanding it.  Alhalbi was one of those who spoke in front of our city commission when it made a resolution 35-2016 to support Muslim communities in and around the city.  The Resolution affirms Freedom of Religion. Freedom of Religion includes the free practice of all religions, without fear of persecution, discrimination or threats to personal safety. That is all fine and good but freedom of religion is protected under the Constitution of the United States of America.

One gentleman who spoke in front of our commission was FAU professor Bassem Alhalabi who is a founding director of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton. He mentioned that he lives in Boca and rarely visits Lake Worth but he was happy to know about our city. Alhalabi, prior to getting his job at FAU, was an assistant to Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian, while they were together at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa.  Source:  Front Page Magazine. Read this article. It is an eye-opener on this mosque.

There is a large Jewish population in Boca Raton and this mosque had an essay on its web page at one time that said, "You will fight the Jews and will prevail over them, so that a rock will say, O Muslim! There is Jew behind me, kill him!" 

Voters should feel safe when entering a polling site. Eliminating this site as a polling location was the correct decision by our Supervisor of Elections.