A Mosque for Ground Zero ?

[olddutch]

The Telegraph reports an ambitious plan to build a mosque next to New York's Ground Zero has angered residents of the city.

http://www.telegraph....gers-New-Yorkers.html

Is the Plan the equivalent of “building a German cultural centre at Auschwitz”
or
a worthwhile demonstration that Muslims are welcome part of the New York community?

[12thPaladin]

http://www.theanswerb...s/Question896461.html

[wildwood]

Perhaps the US could reply in kind by building a Church right beside the Abassid Palace.

[Buenchico]

Not putting a mosque near to Ground Zero (because off the actions of certain Muslims) makes about as much sense as not putting a Catholic church in central Manchester (because it was bombed by Irish Catholics).

i.e. No sense whatsoever!!!

[olddutch]

should the vast law abiding majority of moslems of New York biding be penalised for the sins of the radical islamist extremists who perpetrated 9/11 atrocities ?

[rowanwitch]

It was n't only christians that died that day ...a number of the victims were muslims

[mollykins]

I thought this was some kind of sick joke.

[naomi24]

I'm not surprised the residents are angered. People of all cultures died that day - and God didn't help any of them - so why build anything there? A tasteful memorial - yes - but a mosque, no.

[tastymorsel]

naomi do you believe in anything ethereal? what about evil? we all know that it exists.why does everyone blame God for all the wrongs in the world?Satan is also in the equation but never mentioned.It's always God who gets the blame

[naomi24]

Tastymorsel, That’s actually a bigger question than you realise. I do believe human beings possess an innate spirituality, but I think those who worship the God of Abraham have made a huge blunder because if there is a God, it’s not him. You mention Satan, but that God (?) slaughtered millions whereas Satan killed ten. There is evil in this world - but it comes from man - and often from the man who worships that God. No surprise really, since we are told that man was made his image. And did God help those people? No, he didn't - even though he is supposedly compassionate and all powerful. As I said, it’s a bigger question than you realise. :o)

[Gladeian]

I was speaking to an American lady from New Jersey who travels daily to her office near ground zero. There has been what she described as a "crappy" mosque in the locality for years and it was damaged on 9/11. The muslim population seek to build a new bigger mosque to replace the other. She also said that a large proportion of visitors to the site of 9/11 are muslims seeking to teach their children the horrors of radical islamism. These facts not reported by press here.