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| The Great Goodwill Mosque of Lower Manhattan |
| 2010-07-26 |
| Have you been paying attention to the controversy in New York over the building of a 13 story Mosque near Ground Zero? Islam has a rich history of building Mosques at the sites of great Muslim conquests. The organization behind this $100 million dollar Mosque is called the Cordoba Initiative. The Mosque is to be called the Cordoba House. When the Muslims conquered Spain they took a huge Christian cathedral and turned it into the Cordoba Mosque. So the very group planning this Mosque at Ground Zero is named after a Mosque built at the scene of a previous Muslim conquest. There are other such mosques: When Muslims conquered Jerusalem they built the Al-Aqsa Mosque. When Muslims conquered Constantinople (now Istanbul) they transformed the St. Sophia Basilica into a Mosque. There are reports that they plan to open this Mosque next year on September 11, 2011. Sounds like a schedule stretch to me. This Mosque will be nothing less than a symbol to Muslims of their supremacy over the people of New York and America ... a reminder of a great victory and a promise of more victories over the infidels to come. Even if this mosque is being built with the purest of intentions - which I don't believe for a second - it would be in incredibly poor taste to select such a time and place for it. It fits right in with the strange design of the memorial in Pennsylvania. Will Zero build a minaret at the Pentagon? |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #2 Here's the website link hosted by families very much opposed to this latest mosque outrage, who lost loved ones at "Ground Zero" on 09/11/2001... 911familiesforamerica.orghttp://www.911familiesforamerica.org/ |
| Posted by: Asymmetrical Triangulation 2010-07-26 22:38 |
| #1 IMO the proper venue for this proposed Mosque should be in Washington DC, near the NATIONAL CATHEDRAL - correct me iff I'm wrong, but doesn't the National Cathedral already allow NON-CHRISTIAN WORSHIP to be held inside their grounds??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-26 20:46 |