Posted on 08/19/2010 8:10:32 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Daisy Khan is shocked. In a phone conversation with her minutes ago she said she couldn't believe that what had started out as "a community center for everyone in the neighborhood, to scale up and build up people of all religions has become so skewed. It's hard for us to imagine we are in the thick of a controversy like this. The Republicans are really going after us."
Daisy Khan, along with her husband Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is one of the co-founders of Cordoba House, which has proposed to build a mosque more than two blocks from Ground Zero, causing a political and religious furor.
She says she and her husband will not back down. "There is too much at stake," she says. "Constitutional rights, the development of the Muslims here, how the world is watching the United States. We tell people America upholds religious freedom. We should not compromise those values."
Khan says that it is "evident that there is still healing that needs to happen. There are bigger issues here and it's also about how Muslims are perceived. When will Muslims be accepted as plain old Americans?"
Khan says that there are huge ramifications to closing down or being forced to relocate. "We are debating about having a healing dialogue, building bridges and this whole thing has turned into the opposite of what we have envisioned. " She says that they are now having discussions with 9/11 families. "We will have a dialogue with them. " But she says, "It is private property. To walk away without taking everything into consideration would be irresponsible."
Some of the most serious considerations, she says, are the fact that the publicity would hurt Muslims in the rest of the country and that religious freedom is under such serious attack.
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These scum have their chattel fronting for them. Gutsy.
Perhaps when they allow a synagogue to be built in Mecca.
“The Republicans are really going after us.” And Howard Dean and Harry Reid, and..................
Identify the enemy.
Engage the enemy.
Neutralize the enemy.
Maybe then, we can “dialogue”. Until then, Daisy, STFU.
I love the smell of taqiya in the morning.
“When will Muslims be accepted as plain old Americans?”
1) When they stop flying planes into buildings full of innocent people.
2) When they allow churches to be built in muslim countries without having to worry about christians being attacked by the police, of all people.
3) When they stop stoning women and beating them raw for horrid crimes like going to school.
4) When they stop trying to make us accept women in our countries covered in black bags.
I got more, Daisy. In the meantime, get back to me when you make real progress on the first four.
Never.
Theirs is an ideology of conquest, enslavement, and genocide, especially of the Jews, and that of global scope.
There can be no peace with Islam.
Islam must be eradicated.
Or it will eradicate us.
That woman is a taqiyya-practicing liar from the pit of hell.
When? Never would be fine with me.
Introductions happened well before then.
When they stop trying killing everyone else....
I thought Muslims believed it was wrong to mingle with non-Muslims? How are they going to welcome all kinds of people to their community center, and square it with their religion?
When will they be accepted? I guess they just haven’t killed enough people yet.
Keep talking, Daisy. You are chatting with Sally Quinn (she of stealing someone else’s husband) about constitutional rights, healing, tolerance, dialogue, etc. but what you are saying, and what we are hearing, is: “We are are here, we are in your face, we are smarter than you, we don’t care about your feelings regarding this mosque, we don’t care about your 3,000 dead, and we are going to put this mosque where we damn well please while preparing to cram your constitution down your throats. Screw you, you ignorant dhimmis.”
When you abandon sharia law and submit to Constitutional rule of law, my dear.
Islam is not the supreme law in the United States. The Constitution is.
That’s what “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . .” means.
The exercise of your religion is not supreme in this land. The Constitution is.
If there is no room in your religion for this concept, then there is no room in the United States of America for your religion. Sorry if that sounds a bit intolerant, but the fact is that the First Amendment expresses the exact OPPOSITE of intolerance. Our forefathers had ample experience with religious intolerance themselves before the founding of this country. That’s why the First Amendment begins the way it does.
Religion is between you and God (or Allah, or whatever.) The government may not in any way enforce religious law in this country. Sharia law is utterly incompatible with the Constitution.
And if you want to argue that point . . . that’s what the Second Amendment is for.
Daisy khan? That sounds like a prostitutes name.
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