Eat well Moose Men!
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.
Someone more deft than I needs to please post a pic of the planes flying into the Towers with the caption “Islamic Outreach.”
Uh, I’ll support this mosque the day that Christian churches are allowed to be constructed in Mecca or Medina.
Packing pork chop sandwiches and a large bag of pork rinds in their lunch buckets and accidentally dropping a bunch would also be proper. Now, add a strip club across the street and that would be perfect!
“Can you imagine the FDNY having to fight a fire in that building?”
Great point. And their memories are not so short that they cannot recall that day 9 years ago when many of their colleagues died. On another thread, someone humorously suggested that people desecrate the grounds with pig blood, pork, etc., but we all know that the Muslims would simply rewrite the “rules” regarding pork. Like the Dems, they readjust rules when it suits them.
IN the meantime little Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church destroyed in the Muslim attacks is still languishing in committees and cannot be rebuilt as it is stopped by one delay after another.
My advice at this point is to build a 14 story Christian Center on one side and on the other side a Jewish Synagoge/Cultural Center. I’ll be the first to donate to it.
My wife says she’s going to visit the mosque wearing her shortest shorts, highest heels, and most revealing top. I told her she should rent a pot bellied pig and walk it through that sty on a leash.
What construction company would take this contract?
Where is Diogenes when we need him?
They may find that they have a right to build a mosque there, but conversely, opponents have a right to picket the place and hold demonstrations from now until Mecca falls into hell.
WHERE do I send my check????
Until the homocide bombers start spreading out from this abomination I guess?
Is nothing sacred?
Bill Kristol made the same point on Special Report tonite. He said no construction workers, architects etc would work on it. He said it would never be built. I’m inclined to agree.
“Could you please point me to the place in the Constitution that states that only certain groups of people have property rights?”
BS! Bury your head a little further in the sand. Just pretend the “nice Muslims” will leave you and your family alone in the coming years.
Let’s pretend their war against us does not exist.
Let’s pretend that what the UK is going through can’t happen to us.
Let’s pretend Islam is not a threat to our very existence in the coming decades.
Wake up!
But hey, they’ll “LOVE” it if you ignore them while they plot and position themselves to cut your dumb throat!
I just have visions of that gold dome being a target for another attack.
Are you retarded?
The KKK can put up a museum on the spot where MLK was assassinated?
Stop being stupid, the government does whatever the hell it wants to do.
The PEOPLE are the Government, and the PEOPLE will stop these muzzie animals dead in their tracks.
You can be sure if the right was pushing this, the left would find a way to stop it.
Its a two way street, they dont get to win every single goddamn time.
Eat well Moose Men!
mooslim credo: I love you. I will kill you and your children. Boom! Slash!
Just think of bloody pieces of your children.
Have a good day.
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