Sarah Palin, others argue the mosque would disrespect the memory of Sept. 11 victims
NEW YORK — A contentious plan for a mosque near the World Trade Center site got a boost Tuesday as New York City's landmarks panel voted to allow the demolition of the building that the mosque would replace.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission's decision allows organizers to transform the 152-year-old building into an Islamic community center blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Some national politicians, including former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and the Anti-Defamation League have come out in recent weeks against plans for the mosque, saying it disrespects the memory of Sept. 11 victims.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has supported the mosque.
The commission voted 9-0 against granting landmark status to the building. Commissioners said the building didn't meet historic criteria to qualify as a landmark.
Group: Mosque will be center for moderate voices
If built, the mosque will be part of an Islamic community center to be operated by a group called the Cordoba Initiative, which says the center will be a space for moderate Muslim voices.
The commission's job was to determine whether the building is architecturally important enough to preserve, not to consider the merits of the proposed mosque.
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Mayor Guiliani would never have allowed this!!
ReplyDeleteThis is no more appropriate than if they were going to build a Methodist church or a synogogue at that site. Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking....
ReplyDelete11:11 this is America..you know..land of the free. When did this country become so intolerant and bigoted?
ReplyDelete11:21 When we were invaded by terrorists. Muslim that is.
ReplyDeleteFreedom of religion trumps anyone's argument otherwise!
ReplyDelete"awww your child was mauled by a pitbull? let me give you this litter of pitbull puppies."
ReplyDelete~OR~
"your wife was stabbed to death by a robber? i bought you this nice cutlery set to take your mind off it. also, you can make peace with the knives."
Anonymous said... QUOTE@ 11:11 this is America..you know..land of the free. When did this country become so intolerant and bigoted?
ReplyDeleteRESPONSE: When we lost 2,976 hard working Americans, just doing their daily jobs on American soil who should have gone home to their wives,husbands and children that night, instead of burning to death, jumping to their death rather than burn, That's why, now do you understand? That mosque is nothing more than MUSLEMS shoving our decency, our sense of religious freedom and our desire to always try to do the right thing DOWN OUR AMERICAN THROATS. They were killed by intolerant radical MUSLEM KILLERS, not Christians, not atheist or any other religious order in the world... only MUSLEMS. If there were ever a time to close the doors on being over tolerant, this is the time to do it. If the person that wrote this liberal comment had lost just one member of their family on September 11, they would today, have NO tolerance at all. Keep the many Americans that died on Sept.11 and their surviving family members in your prayers because "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it". FredG
This is a disgrace! If the muslim people had an ounce of dignity or humility they would move this "community center" to another location. The point is that they don't care about our suffering from 9-11 and they want to shove it in our face. Moderate muslim...not in this group!
ReplyDeleteBlacks, Hispanics, Muslims...what next? All together these segments of the population make up over 50% of our armed forces. Are they terrorists too? What makes a Christian better than a Muslim? Would Jesus be so intolerant? Would Jesus be so ignorant?
ReplyDeleteNo, no. We were intolerant and bogted long before we were invaded by terrorists. Muslim that is. The only difference now is that people are more mouthy about it.
ReplyDeleteI cant believe NYers would stand by and allow this, This is going to be a gathering of terrorists praising the hijackers that flew the planes into the building, i guess its time for a PIG ROAST in front of this building.
ReplyDelete11:26,
ReplyDeleteThen you should move, because we did not throw out the Constitution on September 12. You want to live in a bigoted, intolerant country? Move with Newt Gingrich to Saudi Arabia, a country he speaks so highly of for its intolerance.
11:21 no one said they didn't want to allow mosques in our country at all, just not one at ground zero for very obvious reasons.
ReplyDeleteI agree with 11:26...it's like they would be rubbing it our faces. It won't happen. It won't.
ReplyDeletei hope someone blows it up
ReplyDeleteI second that 12:47!!!
ReplyDeleteI want to know WHO is going to built this terrorist MOSQUE, UNIONS,electricians,iron workers,ect ect......BOYCOTT THESE COMPANYS.
ReplyDeleteTime for some shaddy building permits,and let it collapse.
ReplyDeleteTo 11:11
ReplyDeleteMuslims build monuments on their sites of VICTORY! To say they are moderate is simply an insult to all Americans.
This site should be regestered as a
preserved site - that's what we did at Pearl Harbor.
To use the freedom of religion excuse is so very lame it doesn't even warrant a comment but here goes - go build your Mosque ANYWHERE else in NY!
I would have to agree with the majority here. While they may be within their constitutional right to build there, it is simply unnecessary.
ReplyDeleteSo if we say or do anything to offend them we are wrong, yet they can offend us in away they want. This is just a slap in the face. Please tell me in Saudi where you find a church, oh thats right they are not allowed there. We are suppose to be tolerant of them while they slit our throat. You can take your allah moon god and shove him!
ReplyDeleteI can see the Supreme Court getting involved in this unless some politician(s) grow a pair to stop it dead in it's tracks. This is a disgrace!!!!
ReplyDeleteThey won't say where they are getting $150 million to build it. Why not? Makes me suspicious about WHO is actually behind building it. And why does it have to be built RIGHT THERE? For $150 million, it could be built just about anywhere in New York, so WHY HERE? Because its as close as they could get to to site of 9/11 and it IS a slap across our collective face, or better put, a shot across our bow. Religious freedom? All for it. Good taste? Class? Compassion and empathy? Not shown here by our peace loving friends, the Muslims. Its an insult to those who died horrible deaths at the hands of Muslims...it's designed to be an insult, an in-your-face mockery of the freedoms we hold dear and are now being openly and contemptuously used to the most vile extent possible...freedom of speech doesn't include the right to say ANYTHING (FIRE! in a theatre, for example), freedom of assembly doesn't allow an armed mob to congregate, and freedom of religion, well, apparently (to me) THAT needs a couple of limitations, too. These animals are a worldwide scourge upon the Earth --- murdering, maiming, humiliating, torturing, burning, bombing, poisoning, and threatening everyone --- EVERYONE --- who disagrees with them. THEY don't respect "freedom of religion" --- by any definition --- but they piously DEMAND it from US??? And we have AMERICANS who go right along with their totally whack-ass logic??? We are not just sliding down the hill toward hell, we are RUNNING AT FULL SPEED.
ReplyDelete1:31p You have it right. They DO build victory monuments/mosques to celebrate their killing of Americans and Jews. 9/11 is perhaps their greatest victory. We stand by, like complete idiots, afraid to say anything for fear of insulting them. By 'them" I mean MUSLIMS. ALL Muslims. We keep talking about the peaceful muslims. Where the hell are they? Why don't they stand up against their own kind when they kill innocent Americans? What the hell is wrong with us!! God have mercy on our souls.
ReplyDelete3:24,
ReplyDeleteYou think the Supreme Court would rule AGAINST building the mosque? Have you read the Constitution? That whole inconvenient 1st Amendment protects the right to do this.
You all ought to be celebrating that we live in a free country, unlike Saudi Arabia. In the U.S, we allow ALL religions and believers of all types freedom to worshp how and where they want to. Under your thinking, we better get Christian churches away from any area where individual Christians committed a heinous act. Don't you all want to be better than Iran? Better than Saudi Arabia? Better than the Taliban? We are better than that, let's act like it.
Chief among American values is the idea that I may disagree with your views, in fact I may loathe them with seething hatred, but I will defend to the death your right to express them.
ReplyDeleteLet whoever build whatever they want for any religious purposes. Freedom of religion is sacrosanct. Any other arguments pale by comparison ... so suck on that FRED G!
Bloomberg said the firefighters and other first responders who died in the 9/11 attacks had done so to protect the constitution. To deny religious freedom to Muslims would play into the terrorists' hands, he said.
ReplyDelete"In rushing into those burning buildings, not one asked, 'What god do you pray to? What beliefs do you hold?'" Bloomberg said of the first responders. "We do not honor their lives by denying the very constitutional rights they died protecting."
Liberals and their way of thinking will be the downfall of this Great country. Has anyone paid attention to the name of this moderate group the Cordoba Initiative. Look up the word Initiative in the dictionary and tell me what their purpose is based solely on their name. Wake up people!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou are allowed to be a christian in Middle Eastern countries. However, you cannot prophesize in that area. There are many immoral and criminal activites going on in Christian churches. Child sex abuse, fraud, misuse of funds, priests paying for sex, alcoholism and drug abuse. By straying we have others to take over. The people that atttacked us were not Muslims, just Arab drug dealers. They hate democracy, because their drug trade would come to an ultimate end. Therefore, they hide behind a religion to sucker unsuspecting people to committ heinous acts. Get an English translation of the koran and they will wake up and overthrow the insurgents. Illiteracyu and poverty will make people turn to insurgents. Lets take over the middle East, transform their language into English, and feed and help them.
ReplyDeleteThey are just trying to get us riled up. Don't fall for the bait. Forget about these elitist bums.
ReplyDeleteHeres a solution to this problem...... Those of us who do not agree with this gather together at the site of this proposed Mosque and open fire with back pack super soakers filled with pigs blood. Gather enough of us that the blood soaks and saturates their " Sacred Grow" and then they can find another place to build their monument to Islamic Terrorism!!!!! And all of you who agree with the building of this mosque can get the F out of my America and go to an Islamic country where you and your family are can be subject the Islamic and all its heinous atrocities that they will inflict on you because you are not them!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove live America and our freedom of choice to kick your ass out of our country!!!!!
get rid of all the temples and churches and let people keep their fairy tale beliefs to themselves they've done nothing but plague progress with petty war and strife
ReplyDeletePeople for the mosque keep citing the Constitution and freedom of religion. No one is saying that building a mosque in this locale would be unconstitutional, it is just plain old tasteless. Utterly and completely without class.
ReplyDeleteThe terrorists did not care about what religion the victims were. They were only interested in terror.
ReplyDeleteThe site is blocks away from ground zero. On record, citizens from over 100 countries were killed in the attack. Some were certain to be Muslims victims as well.
I for one don't care what religion the terrorists were, they only represented terror.
The questions are these:
ReplyDeleteWhat rally happened on Sept 11, 2001?
Why hasn't there been a real investigation?
Why was it treated as an act of war when it was obviously a crime?
Why did we invade Iraq - when it was admitted they did not get involved?
Now that the Taliban has been defeated - why are we still in Afghanistan?
Finally, let's talk about the crime itself: the events leading up to it, the money bet on the airline companies (shorts), and the stolen billions in gold bullion in the federal reserve bank (in the World Trade Center), the lost records of Enron in WTC 7, and the mysterious events leading to the collapse of WTC 7.
Let's wake up and smell the "inside job" staring us right in the face!