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Originally Posted by The Third Man
The idea of a mosque close to the attacks in NYC may very well be legal as it stands today. But it is a bad idea for a group hoping to spread good will and hoping to create a different relationship with the people and victims of the attacks perpetrated on September 11, 2001, as is often expoused by the Imam and his faithful.
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
I would have to agree on this. To me this proposed building looks to be a big 'ha ha'. There a other places to build such a building in NY. Why this spot? Were is the money coming from. It all seems very suspect to me.
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I tend to agree and I have no doubt that there are at least some people are laughing about this. Nonetheless (and perhaps this is a bit naive of me) I see the preservation of freedom of religion and property rights as a slap in the face to Islam, not the other way 'round. My only regret is that we didn't decide to build even bigger towers on ground zero using money taxed from the private firms in Iraq. Now
that would have been funny.
I'm not afraid of Muslims, I'm not afraid of bass-ackwards Islamic fundamentalists, and I'm not afraid of them building their mosques wherever they choose. I've seen first-hand just how effectively free choice can dismantle even rigid theocracy. Wealth, free choice, and social mobility can absolutely own just about any ideology. What I
am afraid of is the Muslim church, or any church for that matter, being afforded a protected status of any kind. Protection breeds stagnation and stagnation is conducive to stratification of power; and we don't want churches ever having power over anything besides voluntary believers.