Westside said:
Issac said:
I don't think it's a good idea. I don't think that there were any plans to the 9/11 attack to build a mosque (who does that anyway?).
But I do think that the people affected by the attack might hold a grudge against muslims (Even if far from all muslims thinks that the attack was a good idea, i'm not saying anything like that) and a mosque at ground zero is like literary strew salt in an open wound.
Feel free to build a mosque anywhere BUT in that place.
Muslim extremists attack USA -> crash planes into twin towers -> build muslim mosque close to that place....... just no....
So you are saying that Islam is the motive behind the attacks? That is like saying because gay pornography is not something to be viewed by kids, therefore no homosexuals should be allowed to go to school. The good old American way of thinking huh?
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No I am trying as hard as I can NOT to say that (hence all the parenthesises!! I have many muslim friends and such I have nothing agains ANY religion).
And I'm not even american. (actually, the extremists say that they act by islam and stuff, even though I think that's just bullshit, and they use their religion in a fucked up way to blame their actions on).
SO I don't say that Islam is behind the attack, but the extemists behind the attack claim that they just "follow the quoran"... but please don't misinpret it that I think so :S
But anyway, what I said was that EXTREMISTS did it... could've been any religion but in this case they were muslims. and these particular extremists says that the quoran tells them that this is what they should do... and that is what THEY are thinking, not saying all muslims think that way, and I don't think any such thing could be interpreted from the quoran at all.
So, those muslim extremists made something there, and therefore I think it's inapropriate to build a mosque there. sure it is two blocks away, but all the media attention that it gets right now, it could've just been AT the actual site.
So I think just build it a few more blocks away.
I would think the same if it were christian extremists who did the attack, and people wanted to build a christian church there... not approriate.
so please westside, don't misunderstand what I wrote. And i personally think that your metaphor is rather off. I just think that building a 6 story mosque and muslim community center so close to a place which by many americans (wrongly) accuse the muslims for destroying... still i say that there are people who think that way. I DON'T! but it is a sensitive thing for those over there, and therefore it's just stupid to do such a thing.
by your metaphor, I think muslims are not allowed to exist in new york... and i never even said anything remotely like that.
Something that's bound to happen if they build it there: An (or a group of) american will feel the need to save the city from the "evil" and go blow it up or something... there's always angry psychos out there... so just don't build it so close.