Oakvillian

I think one of my teeth must have been picking up Fox News' frequency. I don't know what came over me.

Oakvillian

Well thank you for that. I now have "So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye" going round and round in my head.

DaveLovesDee

Maybe this will help.

JamesM

I have had no real previous interest in this thread but thought I would post this article as it is relevant:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...nd-zero-mosque

SDDep

Pretty much on the money...big hoo hah over not much..

Alan2005

I've always liked Charlie Brooker. He's not on the telly nearly enough.

fowler71

My answer is NO

dbd33

Are you knee jerking or do you have a rationale?

iaink

The question is "should they", so it seems a fair enough reply, no they shouldnt.

Of course, if what was proposed was ACTUALLY a mosque, and were it to ACTUALLY be at ground zero, it might be a question worth exploring, as to my mind that would clearly be taking the piss, but as they ACTUALLY want to buildis not a mosque, and they dont intend placing it anywhere near ground zero, its largely an academic question at this point.

One does rather despair though at the place that the US is at regarding muslims and tolerance in general. Sending some of the military hardware from Afghanistan to Pakistan to help with the disaster there would probably have more impact on the "hearts and minds" of the muslim world than 9 years of conflict have so far.

quietgiroth

I started typing a reply to this, but the dumb idiotic republican ideals of the USA piss me off so much. Very condensed version...
At the end of the day, one of the pinnacle ideas behind the USA is religious freedom. It's the First Amendment, that's before guns...freedom of religion.
At the end of the day all other issues of taste ect are mute. Do they have the right. Yes.
If not just how far away can you build a mosque from that site, 1 mile, 10 miles, 100 miles, 1000 miles? Just what mile marker show's respect.
When does it become alright to build a religious building near the WTC, what is the correct distance for Muslims in the USA to express their Allah given American right of religious freedom?

dbd33

A couple of blocks, just enough to avoid an unseemly display.

JamesM

Definately one of the lesser insiteful posts I've read on here.......

quietgiroth

It is a couple of blocks away.

fowler71

Your a bit of a smart ass hardly worthy of a reply but for the other folks, my Rationale is that Muslims should not be allowed to have a place of worship close to ground zero no more then if the Germans built their Plish embassy beside Auschwitz, Americans setting up in Hiroshima or the erecting of Cromwells statue in Wexford.

DaveLovesDee

Comparing the building of a so-called mosque in new York with building a church in Riyadh isn't an exact comparison. Saudi Arabia's laws are different to the US's, and in each country rules are rules, whether we agree with them or not.

Saudi Arabia is an extremist hotbed, and as such have very strict rules. The US has the Constitution and many legal freedoms. US planning laws allow for many things that Saudi religious law doesn't.