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| 2010-11-07 | ||
It probably also doesn't help that the project is nuanced and ambiguous. ... it is clearly a statement of something, but it is not completely explicit what this something is. ... This clearly should not cause anyone a problem, yet in the febrile atmosphere of modern America, ambiguity makes space for baroque fears.
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| Posted by:ryuge |
| #5 It's not at Ground Zero, nor is it 'nearby', it is on Ground Zero according to any reasonable definition. Could they have gotten any "closer"? Probably not. And even if they could, their shred of deniability would have gone up in smoke. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-11-07 20:16 |
#4 In 2001, in the 9/11 attacks after hijacked Flight 175 penetrated through a tower of The World Trade Center, part of the plane's landing gear and fuselage came out the north side of the tower and crashed through the roof and two of the floors of the Burlington Coat Factory at 45–47 Park Place, between West Broadway and Church Street, (600 feet (180 meters)) north of the former World Trade Center. The plane parts destroyed three floor beams, and severely compromised the building's internal structure. It's not at Ground Zero, nor is it 'nearby', it is on Ground Zero according to any reasonable definition. And that is the reason why Rauf want to build his Victory Mosque right there: "Dawah from the rubble." |
| Posted by: Omaing White7048 2010-11-07 14:06 |
| #3 It's the Burlington Jihad Factory. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2010-11-07 09:58 |
| #2 It's not a mosque, and it's not at Ground Zero – only nearby. It's not a "clubhouse for terrorists", as some objectors have called it, nor a work of "triumphalist stealth jihad". It does not "loom" over the "hallowed ground" of the 9/11 attacks, which cannot be seen from its site. So you say. More taqiyya. The more I see of things the more my view becomes that there are enemies who want to blow us up, those who silently accede to those who want to blow us up, and those who want to impose islamic will on the rest of us one way or another. Islam is a religion that believes in supremacy. Is that not correct? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-11-07 09:47 |
| #1 Since this seems to to be a Shia thing, are there going to be "temporary marriages"? You know a guy gets lonely in a big city. |
| Posted by: Guillibaldo Unusing2147 2010-11-07 07:22 |