Haw haw

[Lady's Human]

1) It's not "at" ground zero.

2) It's legal, it's within bounds of the zoning for the area, what's the issue?

They'd better hire a damned good security force if and when it actually gets built, but that's on them.

[wombat2u2004]

No issue.
If thats what you want....thats what ya get.

[Lady's Human]

I believe the phrase used by those evil white guys who wrote the Constitution was something about "a government of laws, not men"

[Bonny]

Is the Mosque a memorial for the Terrorists that rammed the planes into the World Trade Center? That is really sick if it is.

[Catty1]

No, Bonny, it is a place of worship. Not all Muslims are terrorists.

If you are a Christian, are you like the abusive Catholic priests or the murdering Crusaders? Of course you aren't. You might even feel some shame at how those two groups represent the Christian faith.

I am sure many Muslim people feel the same shame, and do their best to live as decent human beings.

The building of a Mosque near ground zero can be the beginning of unity, forgiveness and healing, or an opportunity for hate and anger to thrive.

It's up to us.

[Miss Z]

^ Well said.

At the centre of Islam is peace. Extremism is as akin to Islam as the KKK is to Christianity; both are monstrosities of humanity cowering behind something they see as justification for their evil.

LH,

I think many posts on this thread have been wired to inflame on the basis of (sigh, yet again) different countries. Bravo on your posts, as ever. I believe that when one refuses to get out into the world and explore other ways of doing things, one becomes so cocooned in one's own affairs that it's an easy way out to blame Johnny Foreigner for everything. I think if this board is generally incapable of discussing other nations' ideas, then we must indeed adopt the afore mentioned 'you keep yours, and I'll keep mine' approach.

[moosmom]

Zara,

Absolutely!!