[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It is a marvel how so many Americans still do not understand certain religions and the inherent danger thereof. This man has the audacity to be quoted saying:

''As far as we're concerned, it's just another church,''

Try getting a permit to build a church of ANY other faith besides Islam in Saudi Arabia or similar Muslim nation. When are people going to wake up?

[Pearls Before Swine]

People need to realize it isn't really a religion in the normal sense. It is largely a subversive and agressive political cult. We know how to handle those. However, when religion is claimed, we seem to lose our bearings.

I suppose that deeply and irrationally held political beliefs have a lot in common with some cultish beliefs that I would classify as religious. Let's not be stupid and lose sight of what is really going on.

[mel]

Let me tell them how I really feel...I don't want no more (expletive) mosques in Tennessee

[jae471]

Well, You can Muslims the right to build Mosques, but what happens when someone says that Chistians or Jews or Hindus are dangerous. Then they too will be denied to right to build Churchs and Synaguoges(sp?) and Temples.

Not to say I disagree with your assessment of Islam, just that your argument can be used against just about anyone.

[jae471]

Argh. New format is messing me up....

I meant to start that with "You can deny Muslims..."

[mhking]

The only way they can build a mosque in central TN is if we're allowed to paint one side with a Mail Pouch Tobacco ad, and a Jack Daniel's ad on the other...Oh, and serve Bob Evans' Sausage out front...

[joesnuffy]

Gee I wonder who is funding all these mosques?...lavish buildings being built in areas where there are hardly any muslims...
One pundit..forgot who...equated it to dogs marking their territory..they are moving in folks and bringing lots of petro dollah with them...politician fodder....
Where is the Orkin Man?

[Sword_of_Gideon]

IF PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVES

You would hope that the good ole boys down in TN would at least not cave in to PC correctness & would move swiftly to DENY DENY DENY. But unfortunately, it reads as if they go ahead & let them build.

[drjimmy]

It is a marvel how so many Americans still do not understand certain religions and the inherent danger thereof.
Yeah. Nobody better be asking to build a Catholic church. We now know the "inherent danger" that religion poses to adolescent males.

[ecomcon]

''As far as we're concerned, it's just another church,''

Nice answer. The gutless, orthodox Politically Correct answer. Hey brainiac, master of equivalence, it's not a church, it's a mosque. Mosques are where members of the death cult meet and plan the takeover of the United States.

Political Correctness = Suicide

[Ax]

"Fathy said local Muslims are excited to have a permanent place to pray and celebrate religious holidays...." AND a place to plot murder against Americans.

[Kermit]

I'd just like to know, if they have any funding from Saudi Arabia for their building, for their clerics or for their publications.

[Gaston]

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

[sheik yerbouty]

Give them their permits after they allow churches to be built in Mecca!

[Hank Rearden]

Are they going to have one of those amplified goofballs yelling out of a minaret at the crack of dawn, calling the feebs to sleepytime prayer and annoying the hell out of everybody else?

For a moronic cult that prays 5+ times/day, they sure have a lot of time on their hands to blow people up - after annoying the hell out of them with their silly wake-up yelling gibberish.

[Tis The Time''s Plague]

''As far as we're concerned, it's just another church,''

That is until the government agents start calling it a "Compound" then stand back.

[PsyOp]

Just say no to Islam!

[Tis The Time''s Plague]

THE GOVERMENT MUST ACT IMMEDIATLY TO DESTROY ALL UNSANCTIONED/UNPOPULAR CHURCHES/MOSQUES/COMPOUNDS/TEMPLES (whatever)

Won't someone think of the children.

[Fifth Business]

Have you heard? This country (including Tennessee) has freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly.

If you are in favor of religious repression like they have in Saudi Arabia, why do you criticize them?

[Michael2001]

Fathy said local Muslims are excited to have a permanent place to pray and celebrate religious holidays.

The whole idea of Muslims staying here permanently I don't like

[who knows what evil?]

Try getting a permit to build a church of ANY other faith besides Islam in Saudi Arabia or similar Muslim nation. When are people going to wake up?

When Islam/Muslims assume majority rule in this country somewhere later in this century, do you think THEY will give a rat's *ss about what the first amendment says? They will burn every church to the ground, and kill every member thereof that doesn't convert to Islam. I chose not to have children because I didn't like the long-term outlook for their survival in this country. I had no intention of subjecting them to a bloody, third world civil war. G-d willing; I'll be dead.