Mosque being built at Ground zero

the government entities will ignore the loud mouths as too emotional to act rationally and that this is for the good of the nation to promote healing between the US and Islam.

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Do they own the land? Unless they did something illegal, ifthey own the land they get to do what they want with it.
 
Maybe the Christians should start opening churches all over the middle east. My bet is given a choice with no consequence the people would choose Christianity over the strictness of Islam by huge margins.
 
Chapdog said:
Maybe the Christians should start opening churches all over the middle east. My bet is given a choice with no consequence the people would choose Christianity over the strictness of Islam by huge margins.
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I am sure that would work out very well. Except many middleeastern nations have laws concerning which religions are allowed to expand and which are not.

Here in the US, the laws are quite different. The freedoms we enjoy can be exploited. But it doesn't make the freedoms bad.
 
Chapdog said:
Maybe the Christians should start opening churches all over the middle east. My bet is given a choice with no consequence the people would choose Christianity over the strictness of Islam by huge margins.
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Oddly, the growth of Islam is huge. And while you may be right if you compare the radical muslims with the easy going christians (like methodists), the case would be reversed if you compare easy going muslims and fundamentalist christians.

Neither side can claim complete innocence on behalf of their entire religion.

Tolerance is the key to peace.
 
Even if you own land esp. urban land, don't you have to have a permit to build, and don't all the specs have to be approved?

At best I feel that this action is grossly insensitive; to understate the situation it's a real slap in the face to the U.S. and all the people who died there on 9-11.
 
WinterBorn said:
I am sure that would work out very well. Except many middleeastern nations have laws concerning which religions are allowed to expand and which are not.

Here in the US, the laws are quite different. The freedoms we enjoy can be exploited. But it doesn't make the freedoms bad.
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We could always allow it in Iraq and Afghanistan while we are there. Perhaps by the time we left it would have a large enough following to create a natural homegrown ally.
 
So apparently it is insensitive to build a mosque within a four block radius of the location of the twin towers. Who knew? Maybe they should ban all mosques from being built south of Houston Street.
 
Chapdog said:
We could always allow it in Iraq and Afghanistan while we are there. Perhaps by the time we left it would have a large enough following to create a natural homegrown ally.
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Yeah, what trouble could come from promoting proselytizing in Iraq and Afghanistan? I can't think of any possible downside.
 
Thorn said:
Even if you own land esp. urban land, don't you have to have a permit to build, and don't all the specs have to be approved?

At best I feel that this action is grossly insensitive; to understate the situation it's a real slap in the face to the U.S. and all the people who died there on 9-11.
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If it were being built by extremists bent on causing more hatred, I would agree that it shouldn't happen. As it is, I think its probably not my first choice for uses for the bldg.

But its the old Burlington Coat Factory, so it apparently not "ground zero" as the article claims.

There are times when our freedoms allow some distasteful things to be done.
 
NigelTufnel said:
Yeah, what trouble could come from promoting proselytizing in Iraq and Afghanistan? I can't think of any possible downside.
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sounds like good leverage threats to stop fucking with us. You dont stop causing problems for us or we will spread Christianity backed by $$$ to your countries. Leave America out.
 
WinterBorn said:
Oddly, the growth of Islam is huge. And while you may be right if you compare the radical muslims with the easy going christians (like methodists), the case would be reversed if you compare easy going muslims and fundamentalist christians.

Neither side can claim complete innocence on behalf of their entire religion.

Tolerance is the key to peace.
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The dark ages are past lad....even the fundamentalist Christians aren't killing the innocent like the crazy bastards from the Middle East today....who gives a shit what happened in the 13th century.

Tolerance is the to defeat.
 
bravo said:
The dark ages are past lad....even the fundamentalist Christians aren't killing the innocent like the crazy bastards from the Middle East today....who gives a shit what happened in the 13th century.

Tolerance is the to defeat.
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Its not just the 13th century, there has been a lot done far more recent than that.

Perhaps not the scale of killing that is being done by the muslims, but innocence is certainly not the issue.

No one has yet given a decent reason for not allowing them to use the land as the owner sees fit.
 
Chapdog said:
Maybe the Christians should start opening churches all over the middle east.
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There are churches in the middle east. Well, at least the parts of the middle east that don't make apostasy from Islam punishable by death.

Chapdog said:
My bet is given a choice with no consequence the people would choose Christianity over the strictness of Islam by huge margins.
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I doubt it. The fundamentalist religions are by far the fastest growing. Fundamentalist Islam wasn't even that big until the 70's, when they took over everything. Before that Christianity and Islam had been about equal in strictness. I don't want that to happen in America, and that's why I fight the right.
 
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