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Only Muslims should decide whether to build Ground Zero mosque
Mormon Times ^ | July 30, 2010 | McKay Coppins

Posted on 07/30/2010 8:12:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Greymung
The whole discussion is a joke. It's private property; the owner builds what the owner wants. Period.

No noob. It doesn't work that way.

Islam is political rather than a religion. They build mosques on sites where they have a victory such as 9-11. This mosque is a political statement. Muslims have done this throughout history.

61 posted on 07/30/2010 8:45:54 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: kcvl
McKay Coppins is a writer and journalist living in New York City with his wife Annie. He is currently an intern at Newsweek,


Is it just me or does this guy look like Jarrod form the Subway commercials?

62 posted on 07/30/2010 8:46:19 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: darkwing104; Old Sarge; hellinahandcart; ovrtaxt; knighthawk; Sam Hill; hail to the chief

Sniff, sniff at post #10.


63 posted on 07/30/2010 8:47:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try. ~Master Yoda)
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To: Greymung

Troll much ???


64 posted on 07/30/2010 8:49:53 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“BYU” - Figures.

Only the people that lost loved ones on 9-11-01 should have a say in this.
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65 posted on 07/30/2010 8:54:27 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Greymung

“The whole discussion is a joke. It’s private property; the owner builds what the owner wants. Period.”

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You’ve been living under a large rock for 70 years?

The Gestapo decides what gets built.

If you didn’t have family or loved ones in that disaster, you have no say on what gets built there.
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66 posted on 07/30/2010 8:57:41 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Tennessee Nana

You are very welcome, and thank YOU for your support.


67 posted on 07/30/2010 8:59:51 AM PDT by tgusa (Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

“Useful Idiot” was the first thing I thought of too.


68 posted on 07/30/2010 9:01:56 AM PDT by MissTed (My dogs have more integrity then my president)
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To: DManA
Exactly as ‘Cordoba’ was where the Muslims erected their victory mosque in conquering Spain.

Same with Ground Zero...it is a Political Victory for Islam... and that is how they are seeing it regardless of what they are spewing to the press....they are being deceptive in every way!

69 posted on 07/30/2010 9:01:56 AM PDT by caww
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Thanks! Long time since I’ve seen that sign. Good reminder ...


70 posted on 07/30/2010 9:02:19 AM PDT by tgusa (Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Are we seriously debating whether a mainstream religion should have the right to build a house of worship?”

Phraking moron. Islam is not American, it is not mainstream and it is not religion; it is a murderous cult/political system.


71 posted on 07/30/2010 9:16:04 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Only Muslims should decide whether to build Ground Zero mosque

Just as ONLY CHRISTIANS should decide whether to build churches in Saudi Arabia. McKay, when you convince the Wahabbists to step aside and allow religious freedom over there, then let's re-engage, OK son?

72 posted on 07/30/2010 9:16:14 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Well then I’m sure the mormons will welcome a mosque in Temple Square...
73 posted on 07/30/2010 9:19:35 AM PDT by T Minus Four ("All religion ever made of me was a sinner with a rock tied to my feet" - FFH)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Are we seriously debating whether a mainstream religion should have the right to build a house of worship? "

No, because that's not the debate. Muslims have the right to build mosques in the US; they're all over the place, right now. The question is not IF they can build, but WHERE they can build. Any city has the right to decide if a building can be placed in a particular location, especially if the city owns or manages the property.

Many people, especially the families of those murdered by Islamic extremists on 9/11, believe that this is an affront to the memories of their loved ones, and a poke in the eye to America, in general. The city can decide whether or not to sell or lease the property, and they should LISTEN to the people of the city, and of the rest of the country, since the people who died on 9/11 were from all over the US, and the world.

Mayor Bloomberg should take a cue from the Russians. When someone wanted to build a mosque in Moscow, they were told that they'd be allowed to do so only AFTER a Russian Orthodox Church was built in Saudi Arabia. It is the Saudis who are funding these mosques all over the world, yet Christians are not allowed to build houses of worship in the Saudi Kingdom.

74 posted on 07/30/2010 9:19:44 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
For another, it seems unreasonable that she wants "peace-seeking Muslims" to distinguish themselves from terrorists while so many of us seem unwilling to distinguish a Mosque from a terrorist boot camp.
75 posted on 07/30/2010 9:19:55 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...so many of us seem unwilling to distinguish a Mosque from a terrorist boot camp.”

Not unwilling, there isn’t much of a distinction.


76 posted on 07/30/2010 9:20:34 AM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mormons are just the PICTURE of religious tolerance...NOT!

How Utah's House Bill 131 Segregates Christians and Defies the First Amendment

Rob Sivulka being hasseled by a Utah cop to move off the public sidewalk

77 posted on 07/30/2010 9:26:20 AM PDT by T Minus Four ("All religion ever made of me was a sinner with a rock tied to my feet" - FFH)
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To: svcw

place marker


78 posted on 07/30/2010 9:27:12 AM PDT by svcw (Real faith is always increased by opposition, false confidence is damaged & discouraged by it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
One of the things that the “can't we all just get along” crowd does not understand is that once it is a Mosque it is claimed as Muslim territory FOREVER. The bombings in Spain were because Islam still considers Spain an Islamic possession.
79 posted on 07/30/2010 9:35:24 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Playing by the rules only works if both sides do it!)
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To: T Minus Four

This guy Coppins voted for Obama...


80 posted on 07/30/2010 9:45:42 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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