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Link to the Sam Harris article in The Daily Beast

"The claim that the events of September 11, 2001, had "nothing to do with Islam" is an abject and destabilizing lie. This murder of 3,000 innocents was viewed as a victory for the One True Faith by millions of Muslims throughout the world "

Even a lot of liberals recognize the mosque would be a victory monument to the horrendous jihadist attack on the US, in the name of Islam.

1 posted on 08/15/2010 3:57:51 PM PDT by SmartInsight
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“....seen as a victory.”

Until it no longer exists - for some strange reason.


2 posted on 08/15/2010 3:58:37 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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Background Links:

Re Mosque - Discussion Thread and Research
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408932/posts

Re 911: Memorial Page and Research
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html


3 posted on 08/15/2010 4:00:36 PM PDT by Cindy
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‘...as a sign that the liberal values of the West are synonymous with decadence and cowardice”

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The West, with the exception of its armed forces, has been showing its decadence and cowardice ever since 9/11 and before.


5 posted on 08/15/2010 4:05:01 PM PDT by 353FMG (ISLAM - America's inevitable road to destruction.)
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I think one of the things that bothers me the most is the design of this proposed building.

You have the Dome of the Crock

The Kaaba

The Five Pillars of Islam

AND NOW THIS! (proposed design of ground zero mosque)

If you've ever been over to the sandbox, you can understand why this object is so VENERATED. Maybe the fact we have indoor plumbing is what angriates them the most.

6 posted on 08/15/2010 4:06:24 PM PDT by bigheadfred (apoplectic purple)
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The name Cordoba Center says it all. Too bad the gutless Republicans won’t talk about the history of the mosque at Cordoba, Spain and call a slap in our face a slap in our face.


7 posted on 08/15/2010 4:06:42 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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I say build it.

During construction, let the FBI/NSA in there, and wire the hell out of it.


8 posted on 08/15/2010 4:07:09 PM PDT by RangerM (A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - Robert Frost.)
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It is well past time for the US to realize that Islam is NOT a religion so much as a socio-economic political system that seeks to subjugate the entire world, much as communism in the last century.
Islam has been at war with the civilized world since its arrival over 1400 years ago in the demented dreams of a pedophile pseudo-prophet who ruled by the sword and who commanded his minions to extend their empire by the sword.
The mosque in Manhattan will, in fact, be seen as a victory by the ‘faithful’, and will be touted for years to come as the proof that Islam is superior to anything else in the mind of man.
The ONLY way to avoid this is to PROHIBIT the building of this mosque AND ALL OTHERS in the US, FOREVER...


9 posted on 08/15/2010 4:07:37 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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"Should a 15-story mosque and Islamic cultural center be built two blocks from the site of the worst jihadist atrocity in living memory?"

Should a Shinto shrine be built adjacent to the USS Arizona Memorial?

Same answer to both---NO FREAKIN' WAY.

10 posted on 08/15/2010 4:11:33 PM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-Free zones are playgrounds for felons)
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There are already plans to put a gay bar next door at available property - really - to foster understanding ya know.

Other ideas... dog pound to foster understanding of canines between cultures, pig butcher to foster understanding between cultures, ...

other ideas?


13 posted on 08/15/2010 4:16:13 PM PDT by Principled (Get the capital back! NRST!)
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If the offensive monstrosity is, in fact, completed maybe we should mount a Jericho Project in which the mosque is constantly surrounded by protesters blaring away on their vuvuzelas.

Taxis and cars could join in the cacophony. Pedestrians could give the New York salute while passing. Street vendors could loudly proclaim the wonders of pork.

It would be impossible to hold services, conduct business or even offer the "call to prayer" so important to these toilet-paper adverse throwbacks to the dark ages.

My apologies but the thought of this mosque poke in America's eye renders me a bit mad.

15 posted on 08/15/2010 4:17:11 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Fear God and Government - especially when one tries to become the other!)
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The Ground Zero DEATH Mosque.
18 posted on 08/15/2010 4:19:21 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality Now: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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One more thought on this. I’m wondering if these Muslims who claim to be so tolerant would allow a Christian Church to be built close to Mecca?


19 posted on 08/15/2010 4:25:07 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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I give you Hagia Sophia:

“The Hagia Sophia or Ayasofya as it is known in Turkish was actually a patriarchal Basilica that has been considered to be an embodiment of Byzantine architecture and also had the distinction of remaining the largest cathedral in the world until 1520. Built on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, its interiors were richly decorated with artistic mosaics depicting various religious scenes and were supported by massive marble pillars.”

http://www.hagia-sophia.net/

“For God, the Cid, and Spain”

“1080. It was an unhappy time. Spain was war-torn. It was half Christian and half Moor. Rodrigo Diaz of Vivar came to be known as “El Cid” (”The Lord”). He was a simple man who became Spain’s greatest hero. At the time the African Emir was Ben Yusuf who gathered his forces in North Africa.

Ben Yusuf tells his men that they will first take Spain, then Europe and then the whole world.

A Spanish church is burning. A Catholic Father prays at the burned altar. Rodrigo comes over to help the Father get up. He tells the Father that they have captured the leaders of the destruction. The Father says to Rodrigo that he is a long way from home. Rodrigo explains that he was on his way to his wedding when he suddenly had to fight a battle with the Moors. Now he will take the captured Moorish leaders to Vivar.”

http://www.vernonjohns.org/snuffy1186/elcid.html

The Alhambra
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Alhambra.html

Significance of 1492 (search)
http://www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/results/Web/significance%20of%201492/1/417/BottomNavigation/Relevance/iq=true/zoom=off/_iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl=true

“Remembering Lepanto”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/218921/remembering-lepanto/michael-novak

“The Al Aqsa Mosque on The Temple Mount”
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25578

The Ground Zero Mosque, as the Flight 93 Memorial, represent CONQUEST. Get that through your heads, people.


21 posted on 08/15/2010 4:27:58 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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There can be a mosque at our shrine against militant Islam, Ground Zero, when America can have a pork hotdog stand, bars including gay bars serving alcohol, and Christian churches of a dozen denominations in Mecca.


22 posted on 08/15/2010 4:28:54 PM PDT by Tax Government (We ask nothing except that our elected representatives uphold the Constitution.)
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RE build the towers so the shadows cover the mosque, and name the towers The El Cid - Vlad Trading center, then see who complains.


27 posted on 08/15/2010 4:50:59 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Put Alan West on the fast track, to the White House!)
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Must see!

Of Mosques and Men: Reflections on the Ground Zero Mosque

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxFzFIDbKpg


28 posted on 08/15/2010 4:54:56 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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I hope they build it, it will incense New Yorkers and remind everybody of Obama’s idiocy. If they don’t build it there, (most likely) then it will be seen as a victory for intolerant racists. What do I want? Whatever hurts Obama politically, that’s what.


29 posted on 08/15/2010 5:11:52 PM PDT by toddausauras
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Blow up a building, replace it with a mosque. It’s not rocket science.


31 posted on 08/15/2010 6:34:53 PM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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ground zero mosque; politics
33 posted on 08/15/2010 6:37:26 PM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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“The claim that the events of September 11, 2001, had “nothing to do with Islam” is an abject and destabilizing lie. This murder of 3,000 innocents was viewed as a victory for the One True Faith by millions of Muslims throughout the world “

Even a lot of liberals recognize the mosque would be a victory monument to the horrendous jihadist attack on the US, in the name of Islam.


35 posted on 08/15/2010 6:42:38 PM PDT by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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