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Hell breaks loose over peace hall(Australian residents dont want mosque)
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| November 28 2002
| Deborah Cameron
Posted on 11/29/2002 4:22:53 AM PST by smpc
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*'Liberal Party' in Australia is actually the conservative party.
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posted on
11/29/2002 4:22:53 AM PST
by
smpc
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To: smpc
Wow, imagine if in WWII a group of residents opposed the building of a local Nazi Party HQ? How intolerant!
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posted on
11/29/2002 4:29:13 AM PST
by
Guillermo
To: smpc
Brings to mind the old adage: If you build it, they will come.
Seems the residents foresee the future, if the construction is allowed.
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posted on
11/29/2002 4:33:13 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: smpc
The residents of this place are very right. In Islam a mosque is the nerve centre of Islamic activity. Traditionally prayer sessions have also doubled up as forums for political activity. Remember that in Islam there is no separation of state and religion. On these very ground only the building of the mosque should be banned, as it could be prejudicial to the law and order situation in that town.
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posted on
11/29/2002 4:39:21 AM PST
by
akash
To: smpc
Writing letters and complaining constitutes " all hell breaking loose " ????? Jeez....must be a slow news day!!!
To: Guillermo
Wow, imagine if in WWII a group of residents opposed the building of a local Nazi Party HQ? How intolerant! Good point.....
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posted on
11/29/2002 4:41:48 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
To: smpc
Note to Muslims: You have brought this upon yourselves.
Reap it.
To: smpc
So, a mosque is now a "peace hall?"
To: wunderkind54
lol the title is probbly a bit much.But its of significance because it seems like the mayor/council is likely to block the application.Might be a bit of a benchmark case.
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posted on
11/29/2002 4:43:52 AM PST
by
smpc
To: smpc
Well, Mr. Aly, if your coreligionists were not raving antiSemitic lunatics I'm sure there would be no problem.
But guess what? People react to what you say and how you behave.
To: smpc
Mr Aly had hoped it would promote assimilation and make it easier for other faiths to attendSounds like a plan, to me.
To: smpc
I'm starting to think we conservatives should be called the Liberal party. It seems like we are the ones with the new ideas and the leftists are fighting to keep things the same.
To: smpc
...But its of significance because it seems like the mayor/council is likely to block the application.Might be a bit of a benchmark case
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For one thing, the timing couldn't have been worse. The slaughter at Bali happened when?? So either this fellow is hopelessly naive or not quite innocent in his motives.
And for another thing: Application possibly being denied? Well, now that's the chance a person-- any person-- takes when he apply for a permit/license/whatever from the city, isn't it? You put your money down and you take your chances. How many non-Muslim endevors have been refused? Probably a lot. But it is clear the writer and/or editor is playing up the indignant "How-dare-we-call-ourselves-a-free-people!" angle.
IMHO, hopefully the city council does turn down the request, otherwise they will have opened a Pandora's Box.
To: smpc
To: smpc
It was not a mosque but a more informal mehfil which, architecturally, looked like a single storey showroom or office. All services and meetings would be in English. (Yeah, right!) It would be used twice a week for religious functions, which 80 people would attend. Three times a year, the number might reach 250.That's just for openers and how it would start. But then more Islamics would migrate to this area with their huge broods and the role of this place would increase and would become a full blown mosque etc. etc. and little done in English.
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posted on
11/29/2002 5:22:26 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: germanicus
Mr Aly had hoped it would promote assimilation and make it easier for other faiths to attend...I want nothing to do with a Mosque. I was appalled to see Cardinal Law of Boston prostrating himself at a mosque for the Ramadan meal. What horse pucky. Never ever will I prostrate/face Mecca for that ding dong moon god that Mad Mo' concocted. Never!
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posted on
11/29/2002 5:25:42 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
"I was appalled to see Cardinal Law of Boston prostrating himself at a mosque for the Ramadan meal."
This IS appalling! When did that idiot do that? All the problems he's caused and this is what he does? Post a link to this, if you can, please. The Catholics have completely fallen down on the whole Muslim issue; these people are trying to kill us. Just another whore of babylon moment for the RC Church, sheesh!
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posted on
11/29/2002 5:34:24 AM PST
by
jocon307
To: jocon307
I was appalled to see Cardinal Law of Boston prostrating himself at a mosque for the Ramadan meal. I could see praying with them. Saying a few Islamic prayers even, if they say some Catholic ones. But NEVER prostrating. Anyone who thinks this act of submission (prostration) doesn't mean a lot to Muslims is a fool.---->
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/797074/posts
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posted on
11/29/2002 5:41:12 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
Thanks very much for your quick response. Sometimes I feel that without FR I wouldn't know what is going on.
You are right, people attend religious services of other faiths all the time, but a Jewish person doesn't make the sign of the cross, or take communion while at a wedding or funeral. This is a disgrace. We certainly DO NOT worship the same god, and I don't think any Muslim would say we do. If nothing else the Jewish and Christian religions share the hope for the Messiah, obviously disagreeing about who that might be. But there is NO messiah in Islam, just Allah. For a Cardinal of the Church to prostrate himself before what should be to him at least, a false god, is idolatry, a mortal sin. But for good old Cardinal Law (the most ironic name in American clergyhood) what's one more mortal sin, after a career's worth?
I especially like the part where he says ''I feel very much at home with my fellow fundamentalists here...'' So, now he's a fundamentalist? Does a fundamentalist Catholic feel it is ok to molest little boys, and be a homosexual activist, and turn a blind eye to those who do, and deny, deny, deny, and obstruct, obstruct, obstruct, in best Clinton-eque manner, when the jig is finally up? Maybe he means he is a fundamentalist Muslim now, and Mohammed was righteous in choosing a six year girl as his wife. But let's give old Mo' credit, at least he chose a girl - unlike some of Cardinal Law's fellow fundamentalist priests!
Here is a sinful thing to say, but I will say it because I am infuriated by this man, and by my (soon to be former, if they keep up they way they are going) church. He's probably happy the 9/11 attacks knocked him off the front page for a while. But in his immense stupidity and vanity, he now is trying to get back in the news.
Rant, rant, rant, that's my rant. I could just slap him silly!
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posted on
11/29/2002 6:00:38 AM PST
by
jocon307
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