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[bucheon bum]

[Summer Wine]

I don't have a position that needs supporting.

I guess I just have a couple of questions and points.

If they are making a muslim center for religious and cultural bonding, then why must it be a mosque? No other religion can enter a mosque for prayer. The land is now sanctified only for muslims.

If they want to spend that much money on a building for religious and cultural togetherness, how much would an annual camp cost? Couldn't they take a group of kids from the local middle schools for a one month camp every year for the next___ years?

Other than than, I am not sure how it will work out, but as a person without a dog in the race, with a of question "whats the point of the race?".

Don't the owners of the dogs ask the same questions?

[Leon]

[Jeonmunka]

If muslims worldwide decided to end apostacy, then I would think differently about Islam. But that it is stuck in the middle ages with an atrocious 'law' puts me off it and follwers of it.

[Steve_Rogers2008]

[bigverne]

[northway]

[actionjackson]

Umm, is it really that big of a deal? There already seems to be one in the area anyway, http://www.masjidmanhattan.com/.

Since 1970, Masjid Manhattan has been a peaceful, not-for-profit organization located in the area of downtown Manhattan. Our members are City, State and Federal employees, as well as professional employees of the Financial area who come to our Masjid to perform their daily prayers.

Is it really such a big deal then to build another one a couple of hundred feet away?

[bigverne]

[northway]

[CentralCali]

I couldn't care less what they preach in the new mosque. So long as we have freedom of speech and freedom of religion in the United States, they have nothing to apologize for. And as soon as the bigots realize that proteching the Muslims' freedom of speech and freedom of religion is not identical to, it is protecting everyone's freedom of speech and freedom of religion, the better off everyone, including the bigots, will be.

[The Happy Warrior]

I support the construction of the mosque, in the sense that if someone peacefully goes through all the effort and expense to establish a place of worship, public opinion and prejudice should remain impotent.

[Leon]

[mc_jc]

The huge debate is why the mosque is being build there in the first place- there aren't many muslims in the area and most live across the river in New Jersey- why build it in a place where there are few followers to worship in it?
Ground Zero has become a "sacred place" for many Americans, especially those who lost loved ones during the attacks. Their feeling is that the mosque is indeed a slap in the face because it is being built right near the new World Trade Centers.
What many politicians and analysts fear- if plans to build the mosque are delayed or cancelled, it could send a wave of anti-American sentiment throughout the muslim community and throughout the muslim world. But many moderate muslims feel the mosque is wrong for being built there because it will a lot of ill-will against muslims by many Americans, something many fanatics want.

What I find amazingly ironic is one of the Saudi financial contributors to the building of the mosque is also known for sending money to Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan- this might say something about their intentions.

[djsmnc]