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NYC Islamic Community Center, Mosque One Step Closer To Construction
National Public Radio ^ | August 3, 2010 | David Gura

Posted on 08/03/2010 9:54:31 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission — "responsible for identifying and designating the City's landmarks and the buildings in the City's historic districts" — has decided not to assign landmark status to a building on Park Place, two blocks north of Ground Zero.

After the board's unanimous vote, its chairman, Robert B. Tierney, said the structure, which previously home to a Burlington Coat Factory, "does not rise to the level of an individual landmark."

Having surmounted the hurdle, a developer is now free to change or demolish the 152-year-old structure, clearing the way for the construction of a controversial $100 million, 13-story Islamic community center, which would include a mosque.

Last week, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) joined a loud chorus of opposition to such a facility near Ground Zero, whose ranks include Sarah Palin and several other politicians and activists.

"Some legitimate questions have been raised about who is providing the funding to build it, and what connections, if any, its leaders might have with groups whose ideologies stand in contradiction to our shared values," the ADL said in a statement.

Ultimately, this is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right. In our judgment, building an Islamic center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain unnecessarily, and that is not right.

Many critics of the community center, which is also known as the Cordoba House and Park51, say that there is no reason it needs to be built so close to Ground Zero.

The Wall Street Journal published a letter to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man charged with planning the community center, from Dan Senor — an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a resident of Lower Manhattan, previously a senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.

"While we continue to stand with you and your right to proceed with this project, we see no reason why it must necessarily be located so close to the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks," he wrote. "Those attacks, as you well know, were committed in the name of Islam."

We applaud and thank every Muslim throughout the world who has rejected and denounced this association. But the fact remains that in the minds of many who are swayed by the most radical interpretations of Islam, the Cordoba House will not be seen as a center for peace and reconciliation. It will rather be celebrated as a Muslim monument erected on the site of a great Muslim "military" victory — a milestone on the path of the further spread of Islam throughout the world.

According to The New York Times, today's meeting "was free of much of the vitriol that had marked previous hearings."

One by one, members of the commission debated the aesthetic significance of the building, designed in the Italian Renaissance Palazzo style by an unknown architect.

Before the hearing, Elisabeth de Bourbon, a spokeswoman for the Landmarks Preservation Commission, said that, "what we're looking at is whether the building has the architectural and historic significance to the city of New York to merit landmark designation." In other words, its members were not asked to consider the planned use of the structure or site.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 911; anarchy; groundzero; groundzeromosque; islam; jihad; mosque; newyork; obama; palin; privateproperty; propertyrights; putinonwhlawn; rop; sarahpalin; stealthjihad; stopislam; stopobama; stopsocialism; victory; wtc
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The question is now this: Will the rank and file union tradesmen build the mosque or will they cave to the union leadership that kowtows to Obastard and political correctness?


61 posted on 08/03/2010 1:48:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Satan is a Democrat and Obama is his minion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Re:Obama as POTUS we were warned in an opinion column of the NYTimes.

No media reported this widely

read this carefully

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=obama%20%22Man%20of%20the%20World%22&st=cse&oref=slogin


62 posted on 08/03/2010 1:50:34 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Blood of Tyrants

That’s an easy one. The unions have shown themselves beholden to the dollar above all else.


63 posted on 08/03/2010 1:53:47 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Rahm and George at Doe's when the knife came down)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

How is it that some towns/neighborhoods can vote out a Hooters or Walmart just because... but not this crap?


64 posted on 08/03/2010 1:55:36 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I hope that no gasoline truck driver carelessly disposes of his cigarette when passing near this newly completed house of "worship".

That would be *wrong*! ;-)

65 posted on 08/03/2010 1:59:17 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
How is it that some towns/neighborhoods can vote out a Hooters or Walmart just because... but not this crap?

You don't get to New York much,do ya?

66 posted on 08/03/2010 2:00:50 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It really makes sense when you consider the dirtbags that New Yorkers put in office.


67 posted on 08/03/2010 2:05:58 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

While I think that killing the project is a slap in the face of the First Amendment, and a sign that we’ve lost, I think it’s more important to also build a church and a temple next door.

Were I to live in NYC, I’d bring my dog waste and pork bones & refuse to the site as often as possible.


68 posted on 08/03/2010 2:12:21 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The elites have a backlash coming, and much sooner than they think.

No they don't, and they know it. They are doing whatever they want and it works...why are they doing it? BECAUSE THEY CAN!!! If they can it's because we let them. Elections will not change anything because the rinos LET THEM. We The People should be the one who stop them but we don't. That's all there is to it.
69 posted on 08/03/2010 2:26:18 PM PDT by American Dream 246 (Open your eyes. Freedom is not a one day fight. Enemies of Freedom are legion.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

They’re building it not to serve an existing community, but what they hope will be a much, much larger one in the future. Islam is expanding, and they hope someday to have millions of American Muslims coming to New Mecca aka New York, the site of one of their great triumphs.

This is an existential threat to the US. For all his flaws, I don’t hit W with cheap slams like some here because he remains one of the few political leaders who gets this.


70 posted on 08/03/2010 2:42:05 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("Fanaticism is described as redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."-G. Santayana)
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To: windsorknot
It really makes sense when you consider the dirtbags that New Yorkers put in office.

I've read that a number of polls indicate that something like one third of Americans believe that 9/11 was an "inside job".If it's one third nationwide it's gotta be one half (or more) in NYC.

71 posted on 08/03/2010 2:44:35 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can you imagine the FDNY having to fight a fire in that building?


72 posted on 08/03/2010 2:57:43 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius

Trying to imagine a fire in that building....


73 posted on 08/03/2010 3:01:55 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Thanks for the non-answer.

They couldn’t pay me to go to NY.


74 posted on 08/03/2010 3:19:41 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So we’re all pissed off. Let’s get past that and on to actions. Legal eagles out there:

What process or procedures lawsuit-wise can we do? Does anyone know of what filings have been done so far and what the process is from here on out? I’m dumb as a rock, so please explain assuming that. Thanks


75 posted on 08/03/2010 3:23:51 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
Thanks for the non-answer.

The "answer" was understood.To spell it out..New York City is liberal.It's liberal in a crazy,illogical,dangerous,Bill Ayers kind of way.It's liberal in a way and to a degree that many (including you?) can't even begin to comprehend.

Stick around here for a while and you'll understand.

76 posted on 08/03/2010 3:31:02 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let them spend their money and build it. Then when it’s occupied, we can call these folks: http://www.building-implosions.com/


77 posted on 08/03/2010 3:45:08 PM PDT by chemicalman (The Obama's: Proud members of the Vacation-A-Month Club.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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78 posted on 08/03/2010 3:46:26 PM PDT by goldendays
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission -- "responsible for identifying and designating the City's landmarks and the buildings in the City's historic districts" -- has decided not to assign landmark status to a building on Park Place, two blocks north of Ground Zero... Having surmounted the hurdle, a developer is now free to change or demolish the 152-year-old structure, clearing the way for the construction of a controversial $100 million, 13-story Islamic community center, which would include a mosque.

79 posted on 08/03/2010 3:51:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
The government does not have the authority to prevent a private property owner from constructing a building on his own property, simply because the building will be used for a "distasteful" purpose.

Doesn't have the authority??? I don't know whether to LOL or facepalm that. Have you never heard of zoning law?

80 posted on 08/03/2010 4:10:52 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (668, neighbor of the beast, is tagline enough)
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