Posted on 08/16/2010 1:32:09 PM PDT by peggybac
fter weeks of heated debate over plans for an Islamic community center near Ground Zero – the site of the 9/11 attacks on New York - it seems Muslim leaders will soon back down, agreeing to move to a new site.
The decision follows a high-profile campaign against the project that included advertisements on New York buses showing images of the burning Twin Towers, an iconic landmark razed when al-Qaida terrorists flew packed passenger planes into them in 2001. The New York Republican party is also said to be planning a hostile television campaign.
Sources in New York said on Monday that Muslim religious and business leaders will announce plans to abandon the project in the next few days.
New York Governor David Patterson said last weekend that Muslim leaders had rejected outright his proposal to swap the site in for another in Manhattan.
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Forget what?
These animals are so devious, who knows what it could mean!
That’s all they are...inhuman lying animals.
this is a win win situation.
No mosque at ground zero = win
Obama ticking off the rest of America again = win
lol
Watch Obama take credit for this turn of events and castigate Republicans and Tea Party types for their bigotry which drove these peace loving Muslims to find another site.
Did Hussein contact his buddy, the Saudi King and ask him to post this news?? For NOW, that is. After the election, the project will be back ON, of course. And probably with taxpayer financing!!!!
Good news.
At risk of inflaming some...
Remember the 1st Amendment. Freedom of religion. You want to practice an unpopular religion, fine. This nation exists because people came here to practice, in safety, what they were being killed for elsewhere (and is now mainstream). Want a building devoted thereto? Fine, build it in good faith. Yeah there’s a lot of mosques on Manhattan; ok to build another in the same spirit of following the fair rules. (Hey, how about that synagogue in Saudi Arabia?)
But don’t build what is an obvious symbol of conquest. That’s not about religion, that’s about domestic enemies - and the Constitution has much to say about that too.
Dislike Islam? Fine. Beat it with our principles of natural rights, not despite them.
Stopping the building of the mosque there is good news.
Fair game if they want to build one where it’s about religion, not conquest.
“I dislike what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Be very careful how you approach this, lest your methods be turned against you.
Campaigning starts rolling real good in less than a month. I think this might be fresh enough. :)
They’re running, dog their heels. Keep them on the run.
Of course, if they go ahead with this symbol of conquest, we can discern the difference between freedom of religion and domestic enemies.
Yup, just another way to say “BS artist”.
They’re backing off, for now. But the battle will continue.
Maybe that is what is under the white tarp at the White House. New mosque construction.
I understand what you’re saying, but there is a proper response.
Step one is to publicize what they are doing it, who is leading it, how they are funding it, and who on the American side has backed it.
If someone wanted to build a 13 story catholic cathedral or evangelical megachurch on that site, there would be nothing wrong about asking those questions and publicizing those answers.
If you’ve been involved in building or expanding any church in Any City USA in recent years you’ve seen how they can use zoning and approval rules to make life very difficult for anyone building a church. They’ll use any argument, traffic patterns, whatever, to kill a church project. In reality there is just a lot of anti-church sentiment out there, and plus there are tax issues; they’d far rather see a shopping mall.
But this one has been waved right through; I can’t help but wonder if the city fathers would have been so quick to approve a megachurch on the same site or if they would have instead complained about parking and traffic and proper use of the site ad infinitum.
we still have the issue, Obama MADE it an issue :)
Now we get to kick them on the issue till November and maybe even remind people again about it in 2012.
Exactly. I wouldn’t be surprised to see his approval rating go up.
They can say they were magnanimous about the situation and took the high road.
Is that a Magic 8ball response?
No one seems to be listening.
No,, read the updates at the cite.
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