I’m not even sure what I can say about this article that won’t get me into trouble. WE shouldn’t be the ones that try to “prove American tolerance”. How about they PROVE TO US THAT THEY CAN LIVE PEACEFULLY AMONG NON-MUSLIMS?!
This makes me sick.
NEW YORK (CBS) ― In a building damaged by debris from the Sept. 11 airliners that brought down the World Trade Center and soon to become a 13-story mosque, some see the bridging of a cultural divide and an opportunity to serve a burgeoning, peaceful religious population. Others see a painful reminder of the religious extremism that killed their loved ones.
Anything having to do with that day, that place, carries enormous meaning. Now two Islamic organizations have partnered to build something that they say will bring some good from something very bad.
Organizers say the project will create a venue for mainstream Islam and a counterbalance to radicalism. It earned a key endorsement this week from influential community leaders.
“This is a community center, a community and cultural center, which would include certainly prayer space for Muslims and we hope for non-Muslims as well, to bring about a new discourse in the relationship between the United States, New York City, and the Muslim world,” said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative.
He’s hoping the 13-story, $100 million Islamic center will join the other buildings; the banks, offices, and apartments, going up at ground zero. It will serve a growing Muslim population in lower Manhattan.
The closest mosque to this area is a dozen blocks away and very over-crowded, but this site was also chosen for exactly what happened here on 9/11, and what America stands for, Rauf told CBS station WCBS-TV in New York City.
“Definitely, this is a victory of American tolerance over hatred,” Rauf said.
But some 9/11 victims’ families say the issue isn’t tolerance.
It’s sensitivity.
The poll on that page shows an overwhelming majority of people who have taken the poll think it’s totally inappropriate. I’d like to know in what kind of universe something like that is appropriate.
Tallon wants to teach her son, Paddy, to be tolerant of other religions. But she wonders if other religions, like Islam, are teaching their children to be tolerant of hers. There are other places in the city, she said, for another mosque.
“I don’t think that they would build a German cultural center right near Auschwitz. Just because you’re looking at what happened to the people that died there. That’s all that should be focused on,” Tallon said.
Amen sister.
Read the rest here: New Yorkers Wary Of Future Ground Zero Mosque
(Link found at Jihad Watch)
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