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The original Ground Zero "mosque"

https://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/09/the_real_ground_zero_mosque.php

Does knowing that a Muslim prayer room was destoyed in the Twin Tower attack change the appropriateness of the Park51 project?

Not really. All sorts of religions and people died that day. I just think people are turned off by the idea that radical Islam perpetrated these attacks and that the Imam currently wanting the Mosque to go right there has some pretty radical views and has said some radical things. I always have said they have every right to build it there. I just find it in poor taste.
 
Not really. All sorts of religions and people died that day. I just think people are turned off by the idea that radical Islam perpetrated these attacks and that the Imam currently wanting the Mosque to go right there has some pretty radical views and has said some radical things. I always have said they have every right to build it there. I just find it in poor taste.

Not only that, but he also happens to be a globalist stooge. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, etc. That project lost all merit when I learned of that. This whole thing was probably planned to happen exactly as it has. Those people aren't unifiers and it's extremely unlikely that anybody that is associated with them is.
 
A single room in a skyscraper vs an entire 11 story building are vastly different beasts.

Tell you what, as soon as the Park51 project allows a small Christian chapel to be built inside of their Muslim "community center" I'll start to think that maybe they are sincere about bringing the community together.
 
The thing I don't get is why they ballooned this into a national issue in the first place. Why was the pastor guy blown up into a national issue? There were about 4,000 people that showed up on 9/11 to let their stances on the Mosque be clear, about a 50/50 split in favor of/against. Clearly, this thing could have been settled with a lot less fanfare because even after the media blew the whole thing out of proportion, not that many people even felt strongly enough about it to show up. How many people are in that city? 8,000,000 or so? The whole thing stinks.
 
A single room in a skyscraper vs an entire 11 story building are vastly different beasts.

That's the answer I expected.

Tell you what, as soon as the Park51 project allows a small Christian chapel to be built inside of their Muslim "community center" I'll start to think that maybe they are sincere about bringing the community together.

Do you also think the YMCA needs to start setting aside Muslim prayer rooms? How about Christian schools? Or does this only apply to Muslim buildings?

Not only that, but he also happens to be a globalist stooge. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, etc. That project lost all merit when I learned of that. This whole thing was probably planned to happen exactly as it has. Those people aren't unifiers and it's extremely unlikely that anybody that is associated with them is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations

Looking at the list of members, I have trouble seeing this organization as being globalist.

The thing I don't get is why they ballooned this into a national issue in the first place.

Demagoguery tapping into fear.

The whole thing stinks.

I agree.
 
The thing I don't get is why they ballooned this into a national issue in the first place.

Because the November elections are coming and Republicans/Foxnews/Palin saw an opportunity to make the President look bad. Make the President look bad, bash Demos, try and get back into power.... Basically the same thing they've been trying to do for the past two years now. Grasping at straws IMO. But dumb Americans continue to eat this trash.
 
I have no problem with a mosque being built there. I too, agree it's their constitutional right to do so. However, I do understand why many don't want them to build it there. I've never been to New York, and I don't know anyone who worked in the towers or died, although my step dad at the time worked at the Pentagon. In the article, it says, many feel it's like, "a slap to the face." I think it's more along the lines of "rubbing salt in the wound." It's easy for me, an outsider, to understand that A) It's a constitutional right to build the mosque and B) people are very sensitive to this subject and rightfully are do to some hurtful events that took so many. This is a very touchy and hard issue for a solution imo, especially when I put myself in the shoes of both sides.
 
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