Posted on 07/26/2010 12:35:24 PM PDT by La Lydia
A conservative civil liberties group has formally requested landmark status for a building in lower Manhattan that an Islamic group wants to replace with a 13-story mosque and community center. Jordan Sekulow, attorney for the American Center for Law and Justice, said the group has filed written testimony with the New York Landmark Preservation Commission to try to halt the joint plan of the Cordoba Initiative and the American Society for Muslim Advancement to build a mosque to replace a building just two blocks from Ground Zero. The landing gear of one of the planes commandeered by Muslim terrorists on Sept. 11 crashed through the roof of the building that the ACLJ wants to preserve.
"This battle is important because this doesn’t prevent who owns the land, it doesn't stop them but it would not be good for them," Sekulow told CNSNews.com. In its written testimony to the commission, the ACLJ argued that the current building's "overwhelming historical significance" and "unique architectural features" provide solid reasons for the site to be named a landmark.
The commission is under pressure to decide soon if the 152-year-old building, an Italianate Renaissance palazzo style warehouse, would become one of the few current landmarks that preserves the palazzo style -- and would also preserve the historical events that happened in 2001. ...
"This is as anti-American as you can get. The families lost their loved ones to terrorists, Islamic, Muslim terrorists who do not believe in religious freedom. The families believe in religious freedom. America believes in religious freedom. That is what we are fighting to preserve," said Tim Brown, the decorated New York City firefighter who survived the attack on the Twin Towers.
"We are asking them to do this fairly and to give fair consideration to the building being landmarked. The building itself, on its own, deserves to be landmarked. The historical event that occurred on Sept. 11 directly affected this building. "
Many prominent figures in the political sphere have come forth and echoed Brown's sentiments. ...
Ditto
i don’t know why we just don’t let them plant their flag on top of the capitol bldg.
Wafa Sultan writes in Hudson NY today about the 9/11 mosque:
A new mosque is now being planned in New York near “Ground Zero,” two blocks from where the World Trade Center used to be. This mosque is headed by an Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder of the Cordoba Initiative, who proposes to convert the now-shuttered Burlington Coat Factory on Park Place into an Islamic Cultural Center which would contain a mosque.
It is crucial to study the supremacist ideology of Islam and to recognize, for example, that the building of a mosque especially at Ground Zero is viewed by Muslims as a decisive victory over the infidels in Islam’s march to establish its ultimate goal: the submission of all others to Islam and to Sharia Law.
....more here
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/05/wafa-sultan-a-mosque-at-ground-zero-equals-victory.html
Be careful what you wish for. This could set a precedent for a left wing government to stop a Christian church from doing something similar.
Can’t we find some rare spider, rat or dust mite living there which would prevent the construction on ecological grounds?
J. is a good man.
He was there, for me, in my hour of need.
When a “Christian” church, which supports members of its congregation flying airplanes into buildings, is prohibited from building on the site of that mass murder -—
I will be on the side of those who want to prevent that construction!
Can’t we find some rare spider, rat or dust mite living there which would prevent the construction on ecological grounds?
That would work, usually, but the Prophet of the Pedophile believers seem to get more Political Correctness over even Animal Rights people.
Can you imagine the outcry from the left if a Christian church was built on the site? Prophet of the Pedophile always gets a pass
I have been saying for weeks that all anyone has to do is salt the property with pork and bacon products. Thoroughly.
Hello? Anyone home? Where is anyone going to plan to build a Christian Church in the US at a site where 3,000 Muslims were killed? Where would that be? Have I missed something? Is there a site of Muslim slaughter in the US that I don’t know about where Catholics are planning to build a cathedral? I find the parallel you are trying to draw to be ridiculous.
LOL, good point!
But have you ever watched the Onion? Diversity racists will find a way. ;)
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