Muslim Cultural Center Headed To Ground Zero?

the greatest slap in the face during the past few decades you can read about in "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy" by Walt and Mearsheimer, Harvard and Uchicago professors

Walt and Mearsheimer are FOS; the U.S. State dept has been and is so far up the arab ass they are wearing BURKAS AND SCARVES when they visit. The damn U.S Embassy website for Jerusalem IS ALL ABOUT ARABS, there is nothing there for Jews.

And this "peaceul imam" is a freaking apologist for terrorism:

"The US and the West must acknowledge the harm they have done to Muslims before terrorism can end, says an Islamic cleric invited to Sydney by Premier Bob Carr.

New York-based Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who impressed Mr Carr at an international conference last year, arrives in Sydney today for two weeks of meetings and public talks.

Speaking from his New York mosque, Imam Feisal said the West had to understand the terrorists' point of view."

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/21/1079789939987.html

Every one of you kumbaya morons will have yhour heads cut off by your jihadi brothers once they are done with your leftist BS helping destroy America.

ITS WHAT THEY DO.

we need more slaps in the face let me list some.

guilliani and the fire dept radios.

placing the command center in wtc complex.

kerik banging his book ho in a free apt by ground zero.

norad not scrambling planes for two hours.

some guy names george kissing and holding hands with saudi royalty among cherry blossums.

reading a story to children during an attack.

why no steel frame bldgs in history collapsed ever.

wmds in iraq, wars, invasions, lives lost to govt lies.

trillions already spent on war and billions more every month under our new peace prize president.

million dollar demos under unsafe conditions that cost the lives of two firefighters years after 911.

the slow rebuilding of the subway stop were the greatest priority and progress shown to the public is the replacement of advertising posters.

shall i go on? slapped in the face indeed.

Having worked across the street from the WTC, and being there on 9/11, when thousands of people died, this does appear to be a slap in the face. Couldn't the guy have found another place in the city?

It's tempting to think that, but, I don't think this guy should bear the guilt of 9/11, just because some crazy followers of his religion perpetrated it.

If anything, as New Yorkers and Americans we should welcome things like this (so long as done tastefully of course), because, the damn building is going to be called the Freedom Tower, and if Freedom is actually going to mean something aside from American flags on Coffee mugs, it should allow for this guy and his cultural center.

The key question is sensitivity. If he wants a cultural center to serve the local community, then that should be fine. If he's [and I have no idea and actually doubt this would be the case] festooned his center with signs proclaiming Death to Israel and that Jew Bush, then yah, that would be bad. But, the idea of a cultural center there, shouldn't be a problem.

You wanna know what's offensive, that shitty Century 21 department store -- That place has got to go!

Yeah, remember how Japanese people were barred from moving to Hawaii 9 years after Pearl Harbor? Or how Irish people couldn't even ENTER Oklahoma City after 1994?

Oh wai-

Actually, I don't remember Pearl Harbor, because I wasn't alive. However, this is not the same. This would be like Japan opening a Japan Cultural Center on Pearl Harbor a few years after the attack. This is not an issue of anyone banning people from opening a mosque, it shows a lack of sensitivity to all the people that died. That's the issue.

Ground Zero IS an islamic cultural center.

Rolltide23. Your BAMA ass is showin and the bigotry of your lovely state clearly drippin down your leg. Maybe you could see if Bull Connor is free to come up and sic the dogs in a few people that are "different" or maybe some of the alums from the 16th St church bombing could come up and blow up the mosque. If they're all busy, maybe someone could come burn some Beatles records at very least

well, it wont offer any protection, as it seems the biggest target in pakistan or iraq is another mosque or nursery school.

Maybe they should build a museum to the Nazi's near Omaha beach

That's a ridiculously divisive, prejudiced and ignorant thing to say.

Actually modern day German's fess up to the wrongs that were done by the Nazi's in WWII. Unlike the Americans that raped the Native Americans in their quest for land.

Perhaps if a camel shoves his nose up your butt you will realize that certain people should not be where they are unless invited.

I agree.

Last in; First out.

As long as B&H doesn't open a satellite store near by I have no problem.

I sense a west side story rewrite coming on...

When you consider the local retail stores, hotels and office buildings, that's a lot of West African store workers and security guards, so don't assume the mosque will be exclusively Arab.

My big fear is that on Friday afternoons, taxis will clog up Park Place, and traffic cops will look the other way, so nobody accuses them of islamophobia.

its sorta shows prejudice that arabs doing something illicits the Times to write an article about it. Religion is silly but Islam is no sillier than judism et al.

you know, it's actually a pretty positive article. the times is totally pro-arab.

Will they be setting up a falafel kitchen for the homeless?

Wikipedia says, "The Five Pillars of Islam (Arabic: أركان الإسلام) is the term given to the five duties incumbent on every Sunni Muslim. These duties are Shahada (profession of faith), Salah (prayers), Zakah (giving of alms), Sawm (fasting, specifically during Ramadan) and Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)." I believe the alms-giving is supposed to be substantial.

So, if you're looking for a handout....

I can't see this going over well, but considering the Imam's history of anti-extremism I think it could be good.

good for them. the problem is not Islam, or it's followers. the problem is fanaticism, and that includes radical christians, muslims and jews. this country was founded on freedom of religion, not freedom to worship as christians. there is no better place to highlight and showcase the peaceful religion of Islam than 2 blocks from 'ground zero.'

you say this as if "radical christians, muslims, and jews" all inflict the same degree of damage to modern society when in fact the whole world (except for americans enslaved to mainstream media brainwashing) knows that it is the radical capitalist zionists who inflict the greatest damage to modern society

common americans have been getting dumber, deeper into debt, hungrier, and more unemployed during the past several decades while billions of american tax money has been funding wars in the middle east for the "cause of Israel"

of course bloomberg will not endorse this project. in fact, as long as bloomberg is alive, I would bet money that this project will never happen

personally, i feel that christians have inflicted FAR, FAR, FAR, FAR, FAR more damage to the entire world, when taken as a historical whole, than any of the other religious groups combined. but as far as recent history goes, i have to say all of the modern religion's FANATICAL followers are equal opportunity hatemongers, losers, hypocrites, murderers, whatever pejorative you care to use. fanaticism is the problem, not which creation fairy tale they think is the 'real' one.

Casey Shain for President.

Newport27, get bent. Or at least, get educated.

Casey, when you hear someone screaming at the top of their lungs "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!", do you just relax in confidence knowing it's the scream of the religion of peace that you are hearing? How fitting it would be then if those final words spoken from the cockpits of UA175 and AA11 are repeated so close to the location of the mass murders, inspired by Islam, the religion of peace.