Step by Step:

[enders_shadow]

So:

Is it inappropriate for Muslims to live near ground zero?
Is it inappropriate for Muslims to work near ground zero?
Is it inappropriate for Muslims to pray in their own homes, if those homes are near ground zero

Comments

[futurebird]

I totally agree with this post. I used to live about one block from ground zero. It's a strange place to live since there are only about 30,000 people there at night, but 300,000 in the day. You are outnumbered by office workers.

Still, the community is tight knit and very diverse. When I'd meet people in the park in the morning while they walked there dogs no two of use would be the same ethnicity. It was a joyful place and the community center sounds like a lovely idea.

I don't live downtown anymore. I'm in the Bronx now but I feel the same way.

I feel like the way that people from new york feel should matter.

Like what our mayor said... let me get the quote...

[enders_shadow]

I know the mayor in favor, I believe you quoted him in the other post.
I tried this line of very simple, very straightforward reasoning with a friend of mine who is leaning against this (he isn't vehemently against it like some) and he saw where I was going from the first question.

Perhaps this line of reasoning will resound with some others too.

[reflaxion]

I mean no offense when I say this, but you don't speak for all New Yorkers.

[futurebird]

No one does.

[pastorlenny]

Any decent Muslim would have immediately recanted his or her faith the day after 9/11 and become an anti-religionist -- as all truly moral people are.

[enders_shadow]

Yup! Your view is in good company.

[anadinboy]

i agree with that 100%. Contrast for one moment the heroic ppl who have left islam since 9/11 with the complete degenerates who have joined it since and because of 9/11

[pastorlenny]

Bookmarked for Poe's law.

[skull_bearer]

The anti-mosque argument ougth to habve died after the poll in manhatten revealed that most of the people who would have to deal with it on a daily basis had to problem with it.

[enders_shadow]

What's this!? Trusting New Yorkers to deal with a New York issue?! That's absurd! That's insane! That's....EXACTLY what small-govt republicans should be clamoring for.

[reflaxion]

This is the only poll I found, in which New Yorkers don't support the construction of the mosque. Do you have a different poll?

[enders_shadow]

"Broken down by borough, Manhattan was the most in favor of the mosque, with only 36 percent of residents against it"

And....which borough is the mosque going to be in.....????!!!

[chemchick]

I really want to punch whatever reporter felt the need to report on this.

[enders_shadow]

It's unfair to blame the reporter. They're after ratings. [perhaps blame the system--but personally....]

I blame the idiotic PUBLIC that gives such stories ratings.

[chemchick]

I find it more insulting to see tourists taking pictures in front of the hole in the ground while vendors hawk WTC NEVA 4GET hats. Like FFS people DIED there and you want to take a picture with your wife in front of it?

[fizzyland]

I'm having this discussion in a private journal right now - the poster is dragging up everything from Dhimmi taxes to Wahabbism to support his prejudice against the builders of a Muslim Community Center.

I'd love to see this logic applied to the Catholic Church. I mean after all, you have high-level officials not only aware of pedophiles in their employ, but engaged in cover-ups and protections of said criminals. So therefore, the entire RCC and its American members could all be served under RICO laws as part of a criminal conspiracy, funded by those Sunday collection plates and bingo nights. That seems reasonable, right?

[enders_shadow]

I cannot remember who--I want to say Jesse Ventura, but that might well be wrong--someone anyway, on the Bill Maher show suggested that the RCC be brought up on RICO charges.

I [sometimes] have a fiery passion for politics, but it's just painful to try and discuss certain things with certain groups. Bashing my head into a brick wall won't help--but it sometimes feels like it'd be more productive.

[fizzyland]

That would certainly give Bill Donohue(accessory to criminal conspiracy) something to worry about other than Taylor Momsen's vibrator.