Land of the free, home of the mosque near Ground Zero

If this writer actually thinks that Cordoba House "is named for the city in Spain where Jews, Christian, and Muslims lived together in peace for a time." then she has a dismal understanding of the history of the 800-year Moorish occupation of the Iberian peninsula.

There is nothing wrong with a mosque. There is a lot wrong with the Cordoba Project.
It's pretty close to allowing the White Citizens' Council to build a clubhouse at the Selma Bridge. They can legally buy property and build, but the same people defending Cordoba House would change their tunes in a flash. Their defense of the First Amendment would cease as they tied themselves into knots explaining why it was wrong.

Please read the quran and its' associated books, then see what is happening to minority religions in muslim countries and then do a history check. When you see the facts and realize what you are dealing with here you will change your mind. Don't listen to their soft spoken polite words, look at their behavior.

You people act like everyone killed on 9/11 was a Christian or a Jew.

What is wrong with you people? Since when does the Constitution allow the government or anyone else to prohibit a religion or a house of worship?

Is that the tea kettle calling the pot black, or what?

I've never understood why it has to be just one religion's house of worship. If you really want to make something symbolic of peace and reconciliation between people of different faiths (And what could be more appropriate at Ground Zero?), make it a prayer center, and NOT a mosque/church/temple.
Really, why on earth don't we simply build a place where people who are religious and want to pray to their God can do so in the presence of other people who happen to pray to a slightly different version of that god? Why do religious people always insist on segregating themselves from one another?
I think making a mosque near ground zero is a terrible idea. I think making an interfaith place of worship that shows that religion doesn't have to be an insurmountable barrier between people might have some merit.

"This proposed project is about integration, tolerance of difference and community cohesion through arts and culture. It is intended to be "a center of learning, art and culture; and most importantly, a center guided by Islamic values in their truest form--compassion, generosity, and respect for all."

You had me until you said this. Because you didn't say it would ALSO be a place to worship. And while I understand that Islamic values believe they are all these things, then please explain where compassion, generosity, and respect are for Jews.

I don't have to wait long. I already know the answer.

It's in their texts, too- Christians are taught to turn the other cheek, Muslims are taught to gladly take the turned cheek and strike it too because they are not Muslim.

Do you really believe the international muslim community will have more respect for us because we let them put a mosque across the street from where the martyrs struck and those in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Indonesia cheered?

It's a poor choice with too many facts that are more than mere coincidence and, sadly, will likely bring out an even uglier side of America.

At the root of this opposition to mosques is the fear that Islam might just not be the religion of peace that our misguided political leaders say it is or that Islamic spokesmen from the Moslem advocacy organizations say it is. There is a fear that Islam is not just another religion like Christianity or Buddhism or whatever. These fears are well-founded, but because of general ignorance of the doctrines of Islam, people can't be sure. In fact, Islam is NOT a religion like other religions; and Islamic scholars are the first ones to say so. For example, Yusuf Qaradawi (the most influential Muslim cleric in the world today, the spiritual head of the Muslim Brotherhood) said: "Islam is not a religion in the common, distorted meaning of the word, confining its scope only to the private life of man. By saying that it is a complete way of life, we mean that it caters for all the fields of human existence. In fact, Islam provides guidance for all walks of life — individual and social, material and moral, economic and political, legal and cultural, national and international." This "complete way of life" is the Sharia sacred Islamic law which calls for the legal subordination of non-Moslems to Moslems and of women to men; it requires death for homosexuals, apostates and blasphemers. And, it calls for eternal war (jihad) against non-Moslems until Islamic law dominates throughout the world. These doctrines all come from the Koran and the sayings of Muhammad which are preached and taught in every mosque in the world, and will be taught in the proposed mosques. People questioning the new mosques need to understand why Islam is unique and not like other religions. Then they would know that mosques are not like churches because mosques are centers for the propagation of sharia law. If Islam is not like other religions, it should not be treated like other religions. If mosques are not like churches and other houses of prayer, then mosques should not be treated like other houses of prayer. Mosques are centers for the propagation of Islamic supremacist ideology, and they should be treated like other centers for the propagation of supremacist, violent and imperialist ideology, such as the Communist Party or the Nazi Party.

Dear SisSTAR Valerie;

"The ISLAMi's r Coming, The Islami Invasion is starting in America" Not England, Not France, but all of NEW York City et al.

like islami-PAKISTAN, a "SUNNi-A-BOMB", Soon Islami IRANi will have "SHiiA-B-BOMB", an owner of 'WMD' (Still proclaim that they are "THE VANGUARDS OF iSHMAELi" International;) then there is an ORG called "CAIR" [Another self-serving "Vanguard of Ishmaeli's, in America & elsewhere; Note They have lots of Money now from HEROIN Sales, International Black-Markets circumventing Uncle-Sam, Laundering Money Profits (via Business Fronts in None Islami Nabes) for MEXican Mafia/Gangs etc.. via Islami Afghanis & Paki's Conspirators living here,. The CAB/taxi Drivers of these Islami Ummah characters, which they Cornered, are ganging-up to infiltrate & conquer the Neighborhood. hence Islami Creep n Scare! Not Communism Scare anymore! And

CAIR have secret AL TAQIYAH agents (like same folks who orchestrated the Islami TURKEY Gaza Flotilla debacle via OHH org) who now know how to Promote/Advertise Islam & Masters of Manipulation of our [SECULAR] SYSTEM for the Islami Ummah; For IMAMS + for WAHHABi's + Ayatollah; All Via Satanic VersUS! They Love Trouble & Attraction; even if Fatal.

Who "CAIRS"s? Please see "ABOUT' CAIR at wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations

NOW; In Brooklyn N.Y. there was a loud cry to another MOSQUE sneakily attempting to Group in a Christian, Jewish, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist mixed area in a not so big Commercial area, in a village/Town like NABE. Please see:

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/28/bn_tt_mosquebomber_2010_07_09_bk.html

Beware of the Islami CAIR Ummah whom know now the art of how to "SNUCKER" US via their "AL TAQIYAH" tactics.

Remember "CARDOBA"? NABE's in Europe? When Islami Moor's & Ummah Invaded It from Mecca, Saudi?

DON'T BE FOOLED BY THAT "CARDOBA INITIATE" Gocka!

please check out http://www.islamicsolutions.com/islam-gave-the-world-the-gift-of-liberty/

"A mosque and community center two blocks from ground zero is a fitting response to terrorism and deserves our enthusiastic support." This mosque is no such thing. It is a mosque and a place for Muslim proselytizing. This does nothing to either respond to terrorism or encourage it. It simply is a symbol of Muslim expansion.
" It is named for the city in Spain where Jews, Christian, and Muslims lived together in peace for a time." Not really. There was peace as long as the Christians and Jews agreed to submit to Muslim rule and accept second class status. When Christians or Jews tried to rise up and achieve equality, there was no peace. The "harmony" in Muslim Spain required the subjugated Spanish to "submit" to foreign Muslim dominance.

"To allow terrorist to force us to respond to ALL Muslims out of fear and anger is not a fitting response." This is not a response to ALL Muslims. This is a response to one project by Muslims that people have an issue with. There are plenty of mosques in New York, and everywhere else, and Muslims are as free or freer to practice Islam as they see fit here as they would be in "Muslim" countries. Muslims like to claim that any opposition to anything they want to do is labeling all Muslims as terrorists. That is simply not true and is just as bad as saying that anyone who opposes any policy of Israel is an anti-Semite. Rubbish.

"The response against the mosque proceeds from an interpretation of the past that says Islam is a violent religion and ideology that seeks world conquest by any means necessary." Actually, this is not an interpretation of history but simply remembering history. Islam is a religion that demands expansion through jihad and dawa and began to spread through violent conquest which continued, more or less, throughout history. They believe they have the absolute truth and are enjoined to spread that truth through whatever means available, including the preferred method of their prophet and his companions: warfare. It might not be comfortable for us, but it is a fact that devout Muslims want everyone to be Muslim and want Islam to encompass the globe. Why wouldn't they want that?

There are over 100 mosques already in NYC.

If you research the sites of many, many mosques, you will find that they are built on the foundations of the places of worship of other religions. Jerusalem is an example of this with mosques built on the remains of both Jewish and Christian sites. Istanbul is full of examples, as is Spain and any other place the Moslems established a strong foothold and/or won a great military victory.

They are given such names as the 'Victory' or the 'Conqueror' mosque. They are built on remote mountain tops on the buildings of former monasteries, and the places declared 'Holy'. They even tried to put a mosque in a convent in NY!

So ask yourself...with all the available space in NYC, why does the mosque have to be right THERE, with its windows staring at Ground Zero.

Islam is acclaimed to be the religion of peace. So why do so many of it's houses of worship appear where it has been victorious in war?.....

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?