Despite needing $100 million to complete the project, organizers of the Ground Zero Mosque say they're only projected to raise $7.5 million in 2011. The Post reports that while Park51, which is still waiting for their tax-exempt status from the IRS, plans to raise $15 million in 2012, at this rate it will take a good decade before anyone can picket the actual site of the mosque (presumably after they support the local strip club). Guess that Burlington Coat Factory cash never came through.
After the organization's plans drew ire from citizens, talking heads, and a Saudi prince, who either claimed that it was some sort of terrorist front/conspiracy, and/or that it is disrespectful to those who lost their lives on 9/11 (including the Muslims that did?), Park51 announced that the mosque itself would be managed by an independent non-profit group called PrayerSpace. But as the Post reports, "there is no record that an organization named PrayerSpace has been incorporated in New York." Maybe because they know they can procrastinate until 2020?
