This almost sounds like a story from The Onion.
A mosque rises over Ground Zero. And fed-up New Yorkers are crying, “No!”
A chorus of critics — from neighbors to those who lost loved ones on 9/11 to me — feel as if they’ve received a swift kick in the teeth.
Plans are under way for a Muslim house of worship, topped by a 13-story cultural center with a swimming pool, in a building damaged by the fuselage of a jet flown by extremists into the World Trade Center.
The opening date shall live in infamy: Sept. 11, 2011. The 10th anniversary of the day a hole was punched in the city’s heart.
How the devil did this happen?
Plans to bring what one critic calls a “monster mosque” to the site of the old Burlington Coat Factory building, at a cost expected to top $100 million, moved along for months without a peep. All of a sudden, even members of the community board that stupidly green-lighted the mosque this month are tearing their hair out.
Does it really matter? Freedom of Religion anyone? People need to stop being so overly-insensitive. Besides the people who did 9-11 probably weren’t even muslims… just saying!
How about freedom from religion.Most likely
none of this crap would have happened in the first place.
Organized religion should be banned from the planet. People can believe in whatever they want to believe, just not as a group. Problem solved.
At least it is not an official memorial, the proposed flight 93 memorial was a crescent moon (in the morning).
Not a problem. They should just put a sign on the new World Trade Center with an arrow pointing to the mosque saying:
“This new World Trade Center brought to you by these guys right here!”
Tolerance means putting up with things you don’t like.
Last time I checked, there are freedom loving Muslims in the world too…
just my two cents.. sorry your an idiot, how would banning groups solve anything? Stupid!
Saudi Arabia freely writes checks to have mosques built anywhere on the planet. I wonder if they paid for this one too?
I say let them built it, then fly a drone into it and blow the thing to smithereens. See if the Muslim world becomes a little insensitive to us.
Stop trying to appease everyone and re-watch the video from 9/11, then say it doesn’t matter. It does and I will never forget.
Everything I needed to learn about Muslims I learned on 9/11.
I think this is great! They have all the money anyway, let them build it, this is a great land clearing strategy if you can’t buy the land or there is something is there now! just fly a plane into it and the gov cleans the area up and then because the country is brook you can buy the land cheep and build cheep.
Last time I checked Osama got everything he wanted when he a stated a list of things he wanted for America.
Bankrupted, bogged down in endless wars, killing Americans and next will be us attacking each other.
Looks like Bush and his best friend Osama won!
>> This almost sounds like a story from The Onion.
The Onion. The New York Post.
There is some overlap.
From the article:
>> “If the Japanese decided to open a cultural center across from Pearl Harbor, that would be insensitive,” Sipos told me. “If the Germans opened a Bach choral society across from Auschwitz, even after all these years, that would be an insensitive setting. I have absolutely nothing against Islam. I just think: Why there?”
I suppose it’s possible that Paul Sipos has “absolutely nothing” against Islam but he sure is ignorant about it.
Japan attacked us. Islam did not attack us.
Yes, approximately 0.0000001% of Muslims attacked us, in the name of Islam.
Yet, Paul Sipos thinks it’s like WWII. That’s pretty damn ignorant — of both Islam and WWII.
blah blah blah, more anti-islam crap in the media please stop wasting our times with these stories.
I think there was a mosque in one of the original WTC towers.
Yet they kill people who dare to publish a cartoon they don’t like! (in a Danish newspaper)
Kill people that say things they don’t like. (Dutch radio personality)
Put out contracts on people who write books they don’t like (author Salman Rushdie)
All in the name of their religion. You have to give them credit for pure arrogance.
Organized religion is truly a curse on the planet but it’s not going away – ever.
What’s left to do? Acknowledge the facts as they are. Deal with people in a way they understand.
If a group believes in killing to make a their point, reasoning with them will not change them.
You liberals deserve the world you are going to get. It will be a hell.
Extremists are not their religion.
Extremists, fine. Jet fuel, preposterous.
Do the people who want the mosque have ANYTHING to do with the 9/11 terrorists?
If the answer is NO, then there is no issue here, other than one created by prejudicial thinking.
#9 I suggest they tear down your house and put a church there. I’m sure you wouldn’t object.
Let the Mosque be built.
And put up a huge billboard with a picture of Mohammed across the street!
I suggest that everyone needs to read the Koran and understand what Islam really means to both its adherents and to those who resist submission.
It’s not a religion that leaves Caesar’s stuff for Caesar, it’s the foundation for an integrated theocratic tyranny.
nice #23
I am sure that New Yorkers will be giving them a big warm welcome. Will a muezzin be calling the faithful to prayer over loud speakers?
#11 AnAmerican
I suppose everything you need to know about Christians you learned from Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City?
I don’t know that much about any religion, but they all seem to be very similar!
I have heard something very like #25 RSweeney before, maybe from him here on Dvorak. That does make me wonder.
What’s wrong with people? The next thing you know they’ll want to build a mosque on Liberty Island. The P/C crowd wouldn’t mind that either, I am sure.
I say no way to a mosque that close to the WTC. It is sacred ground as far as I am concerned. Opening date 9/11/11, are they serious?
After #23:
Pass a law that states no religion or religious artifact can be created and maintained in public–at the expense of said religion–without a portrait of its founder, subject or worshipped deity on prominent display, so that all citizens may instantly determine, by immediate recognition, the source of its religious affiliation.
So when can the Christians working in Saudi Arabia build themselves a church to attend?
There is no such thing as Radical Islam says Our Attorney General so what’s the problem.