A 13-story mosque is planned to be built just steps from Ground Zero, and NYC authorities have approved the plan. NYC is a large city. Why must they build a mosque so close to the site where thousands of Americans were killed because of what the Islamic faith teaches? Sounds to mean like they are rubbing our faces in their violent religion.
Read from Atlas Shrugs:
Monster Mosque Pushes Ahead in Shadow of World Trade Center Islamic Death and Destruction
A rendering of the mosque presented to Manhattan's Community Board 1 Financial District Committee.
"One might think that the Muslim community might be capable of some sensitivity, considering what a manically sensitive bunch they are about everything. Every time there is a jihad attack (which is happening with increasing frequency), they start wailing on us infidels about Muslim sensitivities and anticipatory and imaginary affronts and insults.
What could be more insulting and humiliating than a monster mosque in the shadow of the World Trade Center buildings brought down by Islamic attack?
Worse still, the design is a mockery of the World Trade Center building design. Islamic jihad took down those buildings when they attacked, destroyed and murdered 3,000 people in an act of conquest and Islamic supremacism. What better way to mark your territory than to plant a giant mosque on the still-barren land of the World Trade Center? Sort of a giant victory lap. Any decent American, Muslim or otherwise, wouldn't dream of such an insult. It's a stab in eye of America. What's wrong with these people? Have they no heart? No soul?
Back in December, Joan Brown Campbell, director of the department of religion at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York and former general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ U.S.A., who is a supporter of Imam Feisal, acknowledged the possibility of a backlash from those opposed to a Muslim presence at ground zero.
But, she added: 'Building so close is owning the tragedy.'
This best demonstrates the territorial nature of Islam. This is Islamic domination and expansionism. The location is no accident. Just as Al-Aqsa was built on top of the Temple in Jerusalem. And what about the Hagia Sophia, the ancient cathedral of the church of Constantinople, one of the great buildings of the world, the grandest church in Christendom at that time and for 1000 years thereafter -- and now a mosque? The Aya Sofya mosque -- they didn't change the name, just Islamified it.
How disgusting. The only Muslim center that should be built in the shadow of the World Trade Center is one devoted to expunging the Koran and all Islamic teachings of the prescribed violent jihad and all hateful texts and incitement to violence. The only center in the heart of the WTC should be devoted to a Vatican II for Islam. That is the only kind of Islamic center that would be appropriate, though it probably wouldn't last two minutes without being bombed by devout Muslims.
THE OUTRAGE CONTINUES, as Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder of the Cordoba Initiative, talks about his proposal to convert the now-shuttered Burlington Coat Factory on Park Place, two blocks from Ground Zero, into a mosque.
'No Mosque at Ground Zero' wrote: NMGZ: It's been a while since there's been anything to report on the "Ground Zero" Mosque. We, of course, knew that the silence did not mean the proposed mosque had been forgotten; not a chance. There intention was to sneak it through. "There's nothing like it," said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, adding that facilities will be open to all New Yorkers." Ya think? This " D'wah Center" will cast a rude shadow over Ground Zero reminding everyone of those murdered on 9-11. SHAME on you, Mayor Bloomberg!
Plan for mosque near World Trade Center site moves ahead
BY Joe Jackson and Bill Hutchinson
DAILY NEWS WRITERS NY Daily News
'A proposal to build a mosque steps from Ground Zero received the support of a downtown committee despite some loved ones of 9/11 victims finding it offensive.
The 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center was unanimously endorsed by the 12-member Community Board 1's financial district committee.
The $100 million project, called the Cordoba House, is proposed for the old Burlington Coat Factory building at Park Place and Broadway, just two blocks from the World Trade Center site.
"I think it will be a wonderful asset to the community," said committee Chairman Ro Sheffe.
Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, who helped found the Cordoba Initiative following the 9/11 attacks, said the project is intended to foster better relations between the West and Muslims.
He said the glass-and-steel building would include a 500-seat performing arts venue, a swimming pool and a basketball court. "There's nothing like it," said Rauf, adding that facilities will be open to all New Yorkers.
Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement and a member of the Cordoba Initiative's board, said donations are being sought to pay for the construction.
Khan said the project has received little opposition.
"Whatever concerns anybody has, we have to make sure to educate them that we are an asset to the community," Khan said.
Khan said her group hopes construction on the project will begin by the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Once built, 1,000 to 2,000 Muslims are expected to pray at the mosque every Friday, she said.
No one at last night's meeting protested the project. But some 9/11 families said they found the proposal offensive because the terrorists who launched the attacks were Muslim.
"I realize it's not all of them, but I don't want to have to go down to a memorial where my son died on 9/11 and look at a mosque," said retired FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches - whose son Jim, a firefighter, was killed on 9/11.
"If you ask me, it's a religion of hate," said Riches, who did not attend last night's meeting.
Rosemary Cain of Massapequa, L.I., whose son, Firefighter George Cain, 35, was killed in the 2001 attacks, called the project a "slap in the face."
"I think it's despicable. That's sacred ground," said Cain, who also did not attend the meeting.
"How could anybody give them permission to build a mosque there? It tarnishes the area."'"
9 comments:
This will be seen by the terrorist as just another victory for radical Muslim extremist.
Since obama took office terrorist 5, America 0
Thousands of Americans were NOT killed on that morning by the teachings of the Islamic faith. (And a number of those three thousand epople happened to be Muslims themselves.) That's the basic element of truth that you apparently cannot get your warped little Religious Rightwingnut mind around.
Are the teachings of Christianity responsible for the Holocaust or Tim McVeigh or the Hutaree militia or Scott Roeder? No, of course not. They've perverted the teachings of Christ and they're not representative of the faith as a whole -- just like you're not representative of the true teachings of Chirst, either. EVERY group has their own assortment of nutjobs. Islamic nutjobs blow people up; Christian evangelical nutjobs scurry around on rightwingnut blogs.
Radical jihadists are not representative of the teachings of Mohammed. A mosque blocks away from the WTC site would only bother religious bigots like yourself.
AnonyMouse, I have no idea how you formulate your ioiotically simplistic "scorecard" but if building a place of worship equates to a "win" for radical extremists, you need a brain transplant.
DiogenASS: what the hell you talking about? your the poster child for racial and religious bigotry.
your comments on this board for the last 2 years is the proof of that.
LMAO Typical redneckrightwinger: anybody that calls you a racist, you turn it back and do the same, acting like that somehow absolve.s you from the initial bigotry.
Anyone that is so willing and ready to condemn a major religion in its entirety for the actions of a small minority IS a religious bigot. I understand how that may make you uncomfortable, but if it does, it's only because you deserve to be uncomfortable for being so irreligious and bigoted.
Bottom line, again, since you lost your focus, AnonyMouse: building a mosque isn't a "win" for any terrorists, except in the demented mind of a religious rightwingnut.
DiogenASS: Bottom Line peewee, you're the white establishment redneck and I'm part of the minority that's been abused and assaulted for many years in the past by the racist democrats and their KKK friends.
Now unless you can change your color and history, go suck your thumb in the corner flunky!
Redneck is a state of mind, AnonyMouse, and you have it, regardless of what race you are.
DiogenASS: minorities with a redneck state of mind?
You don't know what the freggin hell you're talking about Cracker!
You're clueless peewee!
OK, we'll spell it out for you, AnonyMouse, r e a l l y s l o w l y so you stand a chance of comprehending....
Just because you're of Hispanic descent does not mean you cannot and are not a racist. You are. But, more importantly, you're a moron. Racial prejudices can be abated, genetic stupidity such as yours is, sadly, enduring.
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