Peter Malkin, Co-Manager with Leona Helmsley of Empire State Building Company, the operator, and Principal of Empire State Building Associates
In your wildest dreams, in your nightmares, in any sane society on any planet, would you have guessed that anyone, in the Iconic City of the United States, having had it's signature buildings taken down by Islamic terrorists, screaming "Allah," while killing three thousand Americans, would be tarting up the most famous symbol of New York City to celebrate "Allah" while The World Towers are still a hole in the ground? And who is bringing this to you?
Meet the dimmhi, Peter Malkin:
Mr. Malkin is the Founding Chairman and currently a Director of the Grand Central Partnership and The 34th Street Partnership, and a Director of the Fashion Business Improvement District, together, the largest business improvement districts in the United States.
Mr. Malkin is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Chairman of the Dean's Council of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Co-Chair Emeritus of The Real Estate Council of the Metropolitan Museum of New York, founder and Honorary Co-chair of The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, a Director Emeritus of U.S. Trust Corporation, a member of The Advisory Committee of The Greenwich Japanese School, Greenwich, Connecticut, a partner in the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce, a former Governor of The Real Estate Board of New York, and a former member of The Mayor's Business Advisory Council and The Board of Overseers of Harvard College and Trustee Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, amongst other business, civic and charitable organizations.
Mr. Malkin received his B.A. Degree summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College in 1955 and his Law Degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1958.
Pakistanian Newspaper
The Empire State Building will be lighting its world-famous tower green from Friday, October 12 to Sunday, October 14 to celebrate Eid-al-Fitr, the “Festival of Fast-breaking” which marks the end of Ramadan. This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah.
At the end of Ramadan, Muslims throughout the world observe a joyous three-day celebration called Eid al-Fitr (the Festival of Fast-Breaking). This holiday marks the completion of a month of intense spiritual renewal, and is a time for Muslims to celebrate with family and friends, exchange gifts, and to help those in need. In Islam, the color green symbolizes a happy occasion and the importance of nature.
During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims around the world observe a strict fast from sunrise until sunset, participate in prayer, give to charity and demonstrate acts of kindness.
Brief History of Empire State Building Lighting:
* In 1932, a searchlight beacon alerting people for 50 miles that Franklin D. Roosevelt had been elected president of the United States was the first light to shine on top of the Empire State Building.
* In 1976, colored lighting was first introduced and the tower was lit in red, white and blue to celebrate the American Bicentennial.
* In 1977, a lighting system, permitting a wider range of colors, was inaugurated and blue and white lights flashed to announce that the Yankees had won the World Series.
Soaring 1,454 feet above Midtown Manhattan, the Empire State Building is the World’s Most Famous Office Building. With new investments in infrastructure, public areas and amenities, the Empire State Building has attracted first-rate tenants in a diverse array of industries from around the world. The skyscraper’s robust broadcasting technology supports all major television and FM radio stations in the New York metropolitan market. The Empire State Building was recently named America’s favorite building in a poll conducted by the American Institute of Architects
Hey, we build a crescent facing mecca over the hole in the ground that used to be Flight 93, why not have the next tallest skyscraper in NYC go green for Ramadan? Hell, why don't we replace the US flag with the black flag of islam/jihad on the ESB for a day, just to ice the cake?
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see what goodies we have in store at the Freedom Tower when it goes up.
I suppose it is possible Malkin is jealous of Rush having an EIB building and is going for an EID building. God save us from the liberals.
ReplyDeleteBrief History of Empire State Building Lighting:
ReplyDelete* In 1932, a searchlight beacon alerting people for 50 miles that Franklin D. Roosevelt had been elected president of the United States was the first light to shine on top of the Empire State Building.
* In 1976, colored lighting was first introduced and the tower was lit in red, white and blue to celebrate the American Bicentennial.
* In 1977, a lighting system, permitting a wider range of colors, was inaugurated and blue and white lights flashed to announce that the Yankees had won the World Series.
And now and forever forward: " Allah Akhbar" or is it "Allahu Akbar?"
Why not light up the night with green laterns?
ReplyDeleteThe President holds "Eid-al-Fitr, the “Festival of Fast-breaking” which marks the end of Ramadan" dinners at the White House, evey year he's lived there.
It's all good.
Let's not project any negative energies.
2164th: Brief History of Empire State Building Lighting...
ReplyDeleteDon't forget that burning B-25 that crashed into it on July 28, 1945. The majority of the plane hit the 79th floor, creating a hole in the building eighteen feet wide and twenty feet high. The plane's high-octane fuel exploded, hurtling flames down the side of the building and inside through hallways and stairwells all the way down to the 75th floor.
For doug, it's Aloha Akbar ...
ReplyDeleteStill trying to promote a "Clash of Civilizations, while that entire concept has, like a Federal Line Item Veto, been rejected.
So it goes ...
The "war" if there was one, is over. Peacekeeping has taken it's place. Not to worry, though, Defense spending will keep our economic pump primed.
Got to replace all the mechanical pieces, trucks, jeeps and the like.
Ramadan, the "Green Light Special"
Blackwater boys may be getting fired, Ms Rice is none to happy with them, today.
AP has a story, which says a whole lot of nothing about that issue.
On a releated note, bet Gonzo's failure of a father never had to do this:
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has hired a high-powered Washington lawyer to represent him in investigations of mismanagement of the Justice Department. George Terwilliger, a white-collar crime defense attorney and the second-ranking Justice official in the early 1990s, was on the White House's short list last month to replace Gonzales.
Or then, there is this reaction, from Turkey. Best we cut those lying bastards loose, or eat their shit. Live a lie, be a liar.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Associated Press) -- Turkey swiftly condemned a House panel's approval of a bill describing the World War I-era mass killings of Armenians as genocide, and newspapers blasted the measure on their front pages Thursday.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the bill Wednesday by a 27-21 vote despite intense lobbying by Turkish officials. The committee's vote was a triumph for well-organized Armenian-American interest groups who have lobbied Congress for decades to pass a resolution. President Bush warned that it could harm U.S.-Turkish relations, already stretched by accusations that Washington is unwilling to help Ankara crack down on Kurdish rebels based in Iraq.
"Unfortunately, some politicians in the United States have once again sacrificed important matters to petty domestic politics despite all calls to common sense," President Abdullah Gul said late Wednesday.
Armenian President Robert Kocharian welcomed the vote, saying: "We hope this process will lead to a full recognition by the United States of America ... of the genocide."
However, speaking to reporters Thursday after meeting EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Kocharian also appealed to Turkey to join talks on restoring bilateral relations.
Gul said in a recent letter there would be "serious troubles" if Congress adopted the measure. Many analysts have pointed out that a public backlash in the key NATO ally could lead to restrictions on crucial supply routes to Iraq and Afghanistan, and the closure of the U.S. Air Force base at Incirlik.
Genocide, Genocide!
Whether it occured in Africa or Armenia or even central in Europe.
Let's just let by gones be by gones.
Abracabra was right?
The Holocaust, just like the Armenian Genocide just did not happen. An over blown story, pumped up by those that would like to recreate reality to suit their stroylines and narrow political interests.
Oh, the Turks did not invade Cyprus, either.
How much oil does Turkey pump?
2164th: I suppose it is possible Malkin is jealous of Rush having an EIB building and is going for an EID building. God save us from the liberals.
ReplyDeleteWhen Bush hits al-Quds in Iran, I suppose that will be the IED building.
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ReplyDeleteDR: How much oil does Turkey pump?
ReplyDeleteI love the CIA fact book:
TURKEY
Oil - production: 50,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)
Oil - consumption: 715,100 bbl/day (2005 est.)
The mental no-jihad zone
ReplyDeleteObjecting to a recent column characterizing his views as being non-comprehending or indifferent to jihad, Lt. Col. David Kilcullen, senior counterinsurgency adviser to our forces in Iraq, wondered in an e-mail whether I "may not like Muslims, and that's your choice." It was a long e-mail — one of several — but even these few words convey the viewpoint, increasingly prevalent, that discounts the doctrinal centrality of Islam to jihad violence convulsing the world, from Iraq to London. In the mental no-jihad zone (and, in Lt. Col. Kilcullen's case, despite what he calls his "significant personal body count of terrorists and insurgents killed or captured"), only personal animus can explain alarm over the Islamic institution of jihad (let alone dhimmitude).
"Alternatively," he wrote, "you may think Islam contains illiberal and dangerous tendencies."
I may think? I do think "tendencies" such as jihad and dhimmitude. "Again," he said, "you're entitled to that view."
"That view" is increasingly absent at the top, where Islam itself is politically and strategically beside the point.
Consider current military thought, as expressed by Lt. Col. Kilcullen: Typical terrorists, he wrote, are "driven by fundamentally non-religious motivational factors."
I wonder which non-religious motivational factors inspired Glasgow's terror-docs to scream "Allah, Allah" while ramming a flaming car into the airport.
Of course, it gets worse. Debate now divides the Pentagon over a new lexicon for Centcom. At stake is the Islamic term "jihad" itself, which could become officially verboten within the ranks of the fighting force that is actually supposed to defeat it.
This might leave us speechless, but it better not shut us up.
Can we prevail with a Politically Correct Military?
ReplyDelete(and a thoroughly dhimmified DC)
Coddling Killers
ReplyDeleteDoug: Debate now divides the Pentagon over a new lexicon for Centcom. At stake is the Islamic term "jihad" itself, which could become officially verboten within the ranks of the fighting force that is actually supposed to defeat it.
ReplyDeleteI suppose they can have meetings about how to help Crusader Bush reel in the Zionist Entity and help usher in the Glorious Era of the 12th Iman throughout the Land of the Believers.
Aloha Akbar, Doug.
ReplyDeleteI had to say that, after Rat thought it up. Aloha Akbar, Doug. Sounds good. Can say it coming or going.
Where's King Kong when we need him?
As far as ecclesiastical garb goes, I give my nod to the Archbiship
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