This almost sounds like a story from The Onion.
A mosque rises over Ground Zero. And fed-up New Yorkers are crying, “No!”
A chorus of critics — from neighbors to those who lost loved ones on 9/11 to me — feel as if they’ve received a swift kick in the teeth.
Plans are under way for a Muslim house of worship, topped by a 13-story cultural center with a swimming pool, in a building damaged by the fuselage of a jet flown by extremists into the World Trade Center.
The opening date shall live in infamy: Sept. 11, 2011. The 10th anniversary of the day a hole was punched in the city’s heart.
How the devil did this happen?
Plans to bring what one critic calls a “monster mosque” to the site of the old Burlington Coat Factory building, at a cost expected to top $100 million, moved along for months without a peep. All of a sudden, even members of the community board that stupidly green-lighted the mosque this month are tearing their hair out.
#55
speaking of idiots…….
there was already a Cathedral next door and McVeigh was an atheist, not Christian
#61 There are sick puppies out there. They will use religion, science, politics, or even music as their raison d’etre to commit atrocities.
#62, qb
Make stuff up much?
From McVeigh’s final letter to Steve Hodge:
“I have come to peace with myself, my God and my cause. Blood will flow in the streets, Steve. Good vs. Evil. Free Men vs. Socialist Wannabe Slaves.”
So we’re all in agreement. Erecting a church near the site of McVeigh’s bombing would be utterly, utterly insensitive.
The best thing for the city of NY to do is to build mosques really close to every tall building. That way, extremists would be risking the destruction of a mosque if they tried to pull another 9/11.
Of course, I say that in jest. The problem here isn’t religion, it’s government. Religion was just the excuse used to motivate. Those who planned the attack had very political aims in mind. Just look up the goals Osama Bin Laden set before the 9/11 attack. Of course, everyone is distracted with the religious aspect because everyone is so easily distracted. Nothing to see here…
This has nothing to do with supporting freedom of worship. Muslims can worship in America. This has to do with Islam putting up an in-your-face celebration of their atrocity. The Imam has called the U.S. complicit in 9/11. The Islamic people, rank and file, are enemies of native born decent Americans – by their choice. Islamic people have the language and the looks to be able to penetrate Al-Queda with undercover agents and take it down. But they don’t. So they, each of them, is complicit in Islamic terror.
The thing to keep in mind is that each of them is your enemy.