On 08/16/2010 06:27 PM, Ross Sauer -> All wrote:
 RS> What really complicates the issue is that there already is a vibrant Muslim
 RS> community near Ground Zero. Two blocks from the proposed site of the
 RS> Islamic cultural center, there is an operating mosque.

It isn't a "cultural center" it's a mosque. There are already
over 100 mosques in New York.

The "vibrant community" ISN'T near Ground Zero. They will have to
be bused in to attend.

 RS> Seven hundred thousand Muslims live in New York City's five boroughs,
 RS> including 10,000 in lower Manhattan, where there are 87 Muslim
 RS> organizations and businesses.

So what? That doesn't make it alright for them to build a mosque where
parts of Attah's plane crashed through the roof.

It isn't about "religious bigotry" (coming from you the charge is
hilarious) it's about propriety and what is the right thing to do. Not all
Muslims are evil, but those who were the cause of 9-11 were in fact Muslim.
Ground Zero is hallowed ground because of their victims. For Rauf to insist
on building a mosque in place of one of the building surrounding GZ that
was also hit is a poke in the eye for the survivors and the families of
those who died.

 RS> http://tinyurl.com/23byj2k

 RS> Of course, we can listen to unhinged religious bigotry like this jerk:

You would know unhinged religious bigotry since you exhibit it on a daily
basis, but you mis-apply it here.

 RS> (Pam Geller)

 RS> http://tinyurl.com/2wuwgbv

Ed

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