Obama backs mosque near ground zero

[seekerz]

I’m not arguing anyones rights to do anything. Like I said, they have the right to build it.

The question here is,

Should they build it there on that spot?

The people, it seems to me, of New York have asked them to move it for emotional reasons. I support them in their plea. If they move ahead an build it there on that location, so be it. It will only anger those who asked them not to.

When did the people of NY ask them to move? Some people definitely asked them to move, but the people of NY??? Far as I know, there was a vote and it was one that gave them permission to build. Since the vote, the mayor of NY has fully supported the building on more than one occasion.

 

[seekerz]

Well my friend history tell us: Don’t expect to much from that particular group of people…
Many before u have did what you are doing now, and regret it later… Hope your luck is better

My friend, history also shows us that when we get through trampling on the rights of a particular group of people we don’t expect much from, along comes a group that doesn’t expect much of us ready to trample on our rights.

 

[estesbob]

My friend, history also shows us that when we get through trampling on the rights of a particular group of people we don’t expect much from, along comes a group that doesn’t expect much of us ready to trample on our rights.

SIGH> Nobody is trampling anyones rights. Those who oppose the Mosque have the right to protest it.

 

[seekerz]

I confess an even further look into the future. Recently I was asked why I was such a fan of futuristic programs such as “Star Trek” (I’m a confessed Trekkie!) I had to say that, compared to the present day, their portrayal of life (where, among other things, there is no racism, no bigotry, no discrimination of any kind) is so much better than our world today. It’s just so much more hopeful and RIGHT.

I wish I could live to see that day, in real life, but I know I won’t. But we all can still work towards such a world. Will it be perfect? Of course not, but it will be better than the world we have today.

In saying this, I know it is slightly “off topic” and I apologize, but I do think that it is a wonderful goal, to work towards a world where bigotry of any kind is just a word in some archaic dictionary, something people have to look up just to find out the meaning, and not a fact of life, no matter how unusual. It just shouldn’t BE.

I’m right there with you, longing for the day when none of these differences matter.

 

[seekerz]

Luckily, Seekerz, for both of us, we don’t (personally) have to sort any of this out!
I hope that those affected will have that chance to do just that! Some are asking for that, let’s hope they succeed!

Since I am currently, in my life, associated with grieving (albeit some sort of pre-grieving since my Dad is in hospice) I’d ask you to give those that grieve “a pass”. Maybe I’m so sentimental because my Father is dying, and I will lose him soon, I’ll give you that. I’m probably an insanely soft touch. No, he isn’t dying because of 9/11, but he’s dying, so I feel a special kinship to those who are grieving because I know that I will soon be among them. My instinct is to be gentle towards grieving persons. I think we all should be so.

I’m all for gentleness, particularly with those who grieve…

 

[Catherine_D]

I just read something interesting about this project at another site, where links were given to information that contradicts some of the information currently in the news about this project.

In public, the promoters of this project are saying that this is not actually a mosque at all, it is a community center, with a small chapel.

However, on the site I will provide, which is an information site of where to go to pray, this location has is listed as a place where they plan to build a structure that will ultimately enable up to 1000 people to pray at one time. This is information provided by the property owners to the information site. 1000 people at once? That’s a mosque, not a community center with a small chapel.

At this same site, I found that there is, nearby, an Islamic Cultural Center.

Anyway, here is the site (I hope I do this right! This is my first time!)

islamicfinder.org/getitWorld.php?id=102115&lang=english

Why is this important? I find it troubling that the property owners would say one thing to the public at large and another thing somewhere else. It raises a lot of trust issues.

 

[Robert_Bay]

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