6 Responses to “Turns out there’s another Ground Zero mosque”

1. José Says:
   August 19th, 2010 at 6:18 pm

   A surprisingly large number of people seem to think that being Muslim is incompatible with being an American.
   It’s only natural, I guess, that American citizens might be suspicious of foreign born immigrants who practice a different faith. Rumor has it that those weird people vow allegiance to their religious leaders in far-away lands, not to their new country. It happened before. There was a lot of controversy and fear-mongering but we let the newcomers stay here anyway. And some of those Catholics turned out to be not so bad after all.

2. Julian Malakar Says:
   August 20th, 2010 at 5:59 pm

   Building Islamic cultural center and mosque at the nose-end of WTC, Pentagon or Flight 93 National Memorial would be embracing for victims of 9/11 as it happened to victims of plane crash by releasing Lockerbie bomber Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi of Libya for reasons of compassionate grounds. Scottish government expected remorse, gratefulness and business from people of Libya in return for showing mercy at the terrorist, but on the contrary victims of the incidents and the world received salt to their wound by behaviour of the people of Libya and their government. Libyan people gave hero’s welcome to terrorist and irony is that to safe face from criticism, UK government had to request Libya not to celebrate this year’s the first anniversary of the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

   Building mosque or Islamic centre at the end of the nose of hallowed ground is planting seed for future tragedy and would turn 2nd mistake after Lockerbie bomber release. At present very few Muslim people live near the mosque site at ground zero that requires a huge Islamic centre. Moreover people do not see any remorse other than their proud and legal demand for freedom of religion. Mosque builders are ignoring public sentiment for sacred ground for those who lost their loved ones. Consequence of avoiding public sentiment never turn good. We should learn lesson from history.

3. Caleb Powers Says:
   August 24th, 2010 at 11:26 am

   Freedom of religion, Julian. Look into it. It’s right there in your constitution.

4. José Says:
   August 24th, 2010 at 7:48 pm

   Caleb, I always thought that a seriously patriotic American ought to display a copy of the Bill of Rights instead of Old Glory. The lapel pins and bumper stickers might not be as colorful but folks might give a little more thought to the real principles behind our fine nation.

   It’s going to be a sad day if our government stands back while an unruly mob prevents a group of American citizens from peaceably and legally building a house of worship, and for no other reason than they don’t approve of the religion. The more I think about it the sicker it seems.

5. Julian Malakar Says:
   August 24th, 2010 at 8:53 pm

   Caleb, my freedom ends at the end of your nose physically and objectively. But physical boundary is not all in all in exercising my rights of freedom it goes beyond that in enjoying real fruits of democracy for a nation. Your sentiment and my sentiment would come into picture for a permanent solution. If we deny the facts that Islamic sentiment caused the destructions of twin tower and loss of more than two thousands American innocent lives, we would deny the truth and bow down to false. Trio terrorist attacks (WTC, Pentagon and Flight 93 National Memorial Park) are not isolated incidents on democracy by a small group of disarray Muslim, like some radical Christian do. It is more than that. In defending their religion of peace they should do more than exercising their legal rights to win hearts and minds of non-Muslims American and rest of the non-Muslim world.

6. José Says:
   August 29th, 2010 at 5:47 pm

   The initial complaint against Park51 (aka Cordoba House) was that it was too close to the site of the World Trade Center. For anyone who cares, the proposed location, on a mostly deserted street where the Burlington Coat Factory building has been vacant for almost nine years, is two blocks away and out of eyesight of the World Trade Center site. Like many others I asked how far away it had to be? Ten blocks? Two miles? A hundred miles? At last we are getting a better answer. Murfreesboro, Tennessee is 750 miles away from NYC as the crow flies. It looks suspiciously as though some locals think that Murfreesboro is too close to the hallowed grounds of Ground Zero. Arson is suspected at the construction site there where an Islamic center is being expanded.
   Lovely.

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