Merged Two Mosques to be built near Ground Zero

Does anyone find it funny that none of the protesters actually showed up at the building in question?
 
Travis said:
Does anyone find it funny that none of the protesters actually showed up at the building in question?
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well, that would have made them look kinda stupid.

you can't protest a mosque being built "AT" Ground Zero, if you protest infront of the actual location, which is 2.5 blocks away from Ground Zero.

i'll bet 75% of the bigots and jerks who protested on Sunday actualy believe the mosque will be built in GZ.

fascists and bigots, all of them.
 
I didn't see any street vendors on that block of Park Place when I looked at Google Streetview. But the Amish Market on the corner has ham sandwiches all day and pork chops by the pound! They also offer hummus in the salad buffet, so YMMV.

By the way, can any of you see the World Trade Center site from 45 Park Place? I can't.

This manufactured outrage is like some weird mutant strain of Blut und Boden. New York City is better than that.

And is it just me, or does Feisal Abdul Rauf look like Shepherd Book from Firefly?
 
Thunder said:
i'll bet 75% of the bigots and jerks who protested on Sunday actualy believe the mosque will be built in GZ.
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Would it make a difference if a mosque was built right on the site of the former WTC?
 
Pardalis said:
Exactly, religions are nothing but inclusive.

Why is it that every time Islam is concerned this board's militant atheism goes right out the window?
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Cowardly Fear;
and/or
the fact that it is envogue to side against Israel.
 
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Cleon said:
Thank you, Bill. There just wasn't enough stupid in this thread.
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You have been brainwashed.
I would like to think like you do. But I cannot deny facts. You can. You do.
I say it is stupid to ignore reality just because it is distasteful and unpleasent.
You do not explain why I am wrong. You just attack the arguer and not the argument.
I am right. What proof do you need? I suggest you browse "the religion of peace" website.

Dude, it sucks that you call someone stupid just because what someone says is unbelievable, you do not want to believe, and you really don't know if what you think is correct. Yours is no different than the intellectual honesty of a biblical fundamentalist who clings onto ideas like The Great Flood.
 
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Thunder said:
and all TRUE Christians are poor and homeless.
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You are right. There are virtually no true Christians. This is thanks to the fact that most Christian societies have gone through The Age of Reason. Most Muslim societies have not.

Most Christians call the bible "the inspired word of God"

Most Muslims call the Qur'an "The literal word of Allah"

There is a difference.

You cannot be logical and say that just as Modern Christians do not embrace poverty as Christ taught, all Modern Muslims do not embrace killing of non Muslims as Mohammed taught.
 
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Thunder said:
not the Muslims I know.

you must know a lot of weirdo Muslims.
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That's mainstream Islamic theology, Parky. The different conception of revelation between Islam and Christianity doesn't really have anything to do with the Enlightenment, though. To lots of fundamentalist Christians "inspired word of God" means the same thing as "literal word of God".
 
The Orthodox Jews I know consider the Tanakh, and especially the Torah, to be the literal spoken word of God.
 
Bill Thompson said:
You have been brainwashed.
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Yes, I recall clearly, as a young child, having my eyes pried open and being forced to watch hours and hours of films showing the horrors of religious intolerance while displaying the message "people of a different faith are still people, just like everyone else." To this day I still feel sick to my stomach every time I see someone display mindless intolerance towards people of an entire ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, or faith.

Unfortunately I can't listen to Beethoven anymore, but whatchagonnado.
 
Thunder said:
i would have no problem with an inter-denominational chapel being built at GZ.
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The question was would you have a problem with a mosque at ground zero, not a interdenominational chapel.


I have to admit my knee jerk reaction to this news was that they shouldn't build a mosque anywhere near the wtc, but the more I thought about the more I thought they should be allowed to build anywhere they want. I think though my knee jerk reaction had something to do with the opening of the mosque being on September 11, but bad taste isn't enough to warrant restricting people's religious freedom.
 
Lurker said:
1. The bill of rights only restricts what the federal government can do. State and local government are ok to discriminate on the basis of religion.

2. Islam does not qualify as a religion

3. The Constitution is not a suicide pact and in times of war, like this, we can suspend certain parts of it.
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:eye-poppi Holy crap are they wrong.
 
Cleon said:
Yes, I recall clearly, as a young child, having my eyes pried open and being forced to watch hours and hours of films showing the horrors of religious intolerance while displaying the message "people of a different faith are still people, just like everyone else." To this day I still feel sick to my stomach every time I see someone display mindless intolerance towards people of an entire ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, or faith.

Unfortunately I can't listen to Beethoven anymore, but whatchagonnado.
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They didn't take away the "ole in'n out" from you too did they?
 
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Ha, thanks for quoting me. I wouldn't have noticed my typo otherwise.
 
TraneWreck said:
I don't remember everything I learned in law school, but there was some event, around 1860, I think, that sort of made that point...
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There are many who have not accepted the conclusion of that event, in the same way they don't accept the 14th amendment.
 
They build two mosques in times of peace
Two mosques in times of war
They build two mosques before they build two mosques
And then they build two more
 
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