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Seven in 10 NYers want mosque moved
NY Post ^ | 8/31/10 | CARL CAMPANILE

Posted on 08/31/2010 10:18:05 AM PDT by Nachum

Move the mosque!

Seven in ten New Yorkers say the proposed mosque/Islamic community center near Ground Zero should be relocated because of opposition from 9/11 families — and an equal number want state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to probe the group’s finances, a new statewide poll released today found.

“Overwhelmingly — across party and regional lines — New Yorkers say the sponsors ought to voluntarily move the proposed mosque to another location,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

The survey of 1,497 of New York residents found:

* 54 percent agree that “freedom of religion” gives Muslims the legal right to build the mosque on Park Place, while 40 percent disagreed and the rest were undecided.

* But 53 percent also said Muslim developers should not be allowed to build the mosque near the World Trade Center site in deference to sensitivities of 9/11 relatives, with 39 percent opposed and the rest undecided.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: mosque; moved; nyers; want
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To: trumandogz
“Seven in Ten New Yorkers want the mosque moved despite the Property Rights provisions guaranteed to us by the Constitution.”

There is no guarantee in the Constitution that anyone can build anything they want anywhere they want. As the churches and synagogues that have been denied building permits over the years know all too well. I recall one contretemps wherein it was the traffic that annoyed the community.

41 posted on 08/31/2010 11:38:42 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: tflabo

As I read the Constitution, I see that we all have Property Rights and those Property Rights and not simply limited to those who the majority wish to hold Property Rights.

In other words, the Constitution is not a cafeteria where only some people are protected by the Bill of Rights and each of us can choose which amendments the government must comply.


42 posted on 08/31/2010 11:45:30 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: TalBlack

“As the churches and synagogues that have been denied building permits over the years know all too well.”

Oh, so you advocate a community’s right to prohibit a church from being build?


43 posted on 08/31/2010 11:48:02 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz
Forget Ground Zero--we should build that mosque right next door to your place. Call it the Constitutional Mosque of free Property Rights. A good Constitutionalist like you wouldn't object to a freedom Mosque next door now would you? And if you object you have no standing nor voice in the community just like NYers are being denied!

PS The Constitution is a wonderful, founding document but not intended to be used as an across-the-board sledgehammer in minor matters.

44 posted on 08/31/2010 11:56:33 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: trumandogz

“Oh, so you advocate a community’s right to prohibit a church from being build?”

A church or any other thing in any particular spot? Damn right. They have that right and have been exercising it since the dawn of this nation. Seem this Death Cult gets some sort of PC pass in too many PC minds. There are a hundred Mosques in NYC but this Mosque will not be allowed. Bet on it.


45 posted on 08/31/2010 11:59:10 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: tflabo

“The Constitution is a wonderful, founding document but not intended to be used as an across-the-board sledgehammer in minor matters.”

See: Equal Protection Clause

And, who would you like to decide which Constitutional provisions are minor and which are major?

Freedom of Speech- Major or Minor?

Right to Bear Arms-Major or Minor?

Property Rights-Major or Minor?

Equal Protection-Major of Minor?


46 posted on 08/31/2010 12:04:29 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: joe fonebone

Is this a great country, or what?


47 posted on 08/31/2010 12:05:13 PM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: TalBlack

Under what law would you prohibit the mosque from being build?


48 posted on 08/31/2010 12:06:31 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz

No worries man-—like I said we will build that Major Freedom Mosque right next door to your place under Major Equal Protection. Have no fear though because you have the Major right to bear arms too. When the call for Muslim prayers rings out loud and clear over your roof 5x a day just remember they are practicing their right of Major Freedom of speech. Now lets get cranking on that groundbreaking foundation next door. Oh, and by the way, the leftist Supremes gave us Major ‘Eminent free domain’ so we can kick your neighbors out of their house to make room for the Major Freedom Mosque!


49 posted on 08/31/2010 12:15:52 PM PDT by tflabo
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To: GOPJ
“What I don't understand is why Muslims don't feel ashamed of how they're acting.” Some Muslims are speaking out concerning the insensitivity of the location. Others are at a loss to know why they SHOULD feel ashamed about it. I sure as hell am not ashamed of my faith because of The Westboro Baptist Church, the .10 percent of priests who have made a mockery of the faith, OR for what people did to each other 1000 years ago.

My entire point is, I don't want collections taken up at these gathering places to be funneled to terrorist organizations. I don't want terrorists’ rhetoric recruiting vulnerable young men and women who feel all the angst of youth. I don't want Sharia Law replacing what we have. I don't want women to be denigrated by misogynistic beliefs, or little girls bodies mutilated.

So long as they can preach love of God and Country, Home and Family, tolerance and peace — then they are as welcome to preach it as any Christian, Jew or Ethicist I can think of. That's my opinion and I'm stickin' to it.

50 posted on 08/31/2010 12:18:37 PM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

You have touched the significance. It has been my thoughts that Islam mosques are not just a ‘religeous’ facility. Islam worship, as I understand, embodies the whole of Islamic belief as given in the Koran. The Koran is certainly more than the usual dogma of American main stream religions. It presribes government along with penalties for violation of that government. It has it’s seperate code of civil obedience. How many ‘churches’ in this Nation have had their tax status challenged for going beyond their ‘religion’? I also believe a high rise mosque is symbolic for Islam as above the infidels. Perhaps we and other western nations will have to relive the 15th century all over again.


51 posted on 08/31/2010 12:23:27 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: trumandogz

Under what law? The one or ones that have been barring what communities don’t want since time immemorial. That one. It’s time the muzzies learned you can’t have everything you want.


52 posted on 08/31/2010 12:33:14 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: tflabo

I am not one of those Conservatives who calls himself a Constitutionalist, but only when the Constitution states something that I like.

Nor am I one of those Conservatives who calls himself a Constitutionalist, but believes that only Americans of a gender, race, ethnicity or religion should be protected by the Constitution.

Instead, I am a Conservative who understands that the Constitution applies to everybody and everybody equally.

And I have lived across the street from a mosque while I was in college, around the corner from a mosque when I lived in NYC and a few blocks from a mosque when I worked in the Middle East.

If they were to build a mosque next door to my home, the people at the mosque would have to contend with the Israeli Flag that my daughter loves to fly in front of our house.

See: Property Rights


53 posted on 08/31/2010 12:35:14 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: TalBlack
"The one or ones that have been barring what communities don’t want since time immemorial. That one."

Could you please be more specific as I could not find "The one or ones that have been barring what communities don’t want since time immemorial. That one." listed in The Charter, Administrative Code, and Rules of the City of New York.

54 posted on 08/31/2010 12:39:29 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz

You should have stopped at “I am not one of those Conservatives”. At least you would have been telling the truth.


55 posted on 08/31/2010 12:40:33 PM PDT by beandog
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To: beandog

Until this issue, I always believed it was the liberals who saw the Constitution as a Cafeteria where one could ignore the Second Amendment while and choose the First Amendment.

However, there seem to be many Cafeteria Conservatives who do not want to have Equal Protection or Property Rights.

As for me, I accept the entire Constitution and do not pick and choose who is and who is not protected by the Constitution.


56 posted on 08/31/2010 12:51:36 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz
“Could you please be more specific as I could not find..”

Look harder. The rules don't change for the Godless cult. NY of ALL places knows how to stop a thing, LEGALLY when they WANT to. NYC stops or micromanages more than it leaves alone or allows. The fact that you don't know how they do it is a shortcoming of yours. Study a little harder is all I can advise. I'll give you a key word: ‘Bureaucracy’ I don't recall any constitutional problems in my 51 years of seeing NYC do as it damn well pleases.

We should all cut to the chase and put up some money on the outcome of this thing, get a big pot going. I honestly believe the Mosque is doomed.

57 posted on 08/31/2010 1:30:30 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: TalBlack

I’m not advocating that the mosque be built, but rather saying that they have the right to sonar they wish on the property that they own.

Now, if you can find a specific law that would prevent they mosque from being build, I would like to hear about it.

However, we as a nation cannot only protect the constitutional rights of only certain people.


58 posted on 08/31/2010 3:40:35 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: Nachum
I don't know if there's a list thread or not (I haven't seen one) but, we need a list thread that documents every pos traitor that approves of the ‘victory mosque’..

I know a few off hand.

Barry Obama
Pelosi
Bloomberg
Ron Paul
Charlie Rangel
....

59 posted on 09/02/2010 3:54:49 AM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
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