Calls to investigate the funding for those proposing the $100 million "Cordoba House" have fallen on deaf ears

Pelosi Suggests Probe of Funding Sources Behind Opposition to Mosque Near Ground Zero
by Fox News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is suggesting a coordinated effort is behind the opposition to a proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero, saying the whole dispute has been "ginned up" for political purposes and she supports a probe into those opponents.
Commenting publicly for the first time on the Park 51 project, Pelosi said the issue was posing a distraction and that some organized force is behind it.
"There is no question that there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some," she said in remarks posted recently in a video on the San Francisco Chronicle website. "And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque (is) being funded."

Obama first weighed in Friday during a Ramadan dinner at the White House, and appeared to support the mosque project, but the White House later clarified that he was underscoring the developers' right to build the center -- not endorsing it outright.

David Malpass, a New York Republican candidate seeking the Sept. 14 primary nomination to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in November, issued a statement Wednesday saying Pelosi should be investigating foreign funding for the project.

from the Associated Press
El-Gamal, the son of a Polish mother and Egyptian father, spent time as a child in Liberia and Egypt, where he said his father worked for Chemical Bank, but he graduated from New Hyde Park High School on Long Island.
El-Gamal took classes at several New York colleges but never got a degree, then married a Long Island woman.

Eight years ago, Sharif El-Gamal was just another ambitious striver from Brooklyn, casting about for career leads and dreaming of a grander future in real estate. At age 37, El-Gamal now finds himself being castigated daily on television as everything from an insensitive agitator to an Islamic supremacist.

El-Gamal has declined to talk in detail about financing for the purchase, which cost nearly $5 million.
He and other backers of the project have said that they haven't yet begun raising money for construction of the center, and don't yet know where it will come from.

Calls to investigate the funding for those proposing the $100 million "Cordoba House" have fallen on deaf ears!