Plan for mosque near World Trade Center site moves ahead

[IamDZJ]

you guys don't get it. as long as it's there, no one will think of blowing the trade center again. even if they were not interested in muslims, they will still benefit from the security it provides. you people are hammering your own toes.
familiarity gives a sense of security too. some of us here still don't believe in blowing up non muslims or wishing hell for their dead...

[tor_khan]

Talk about a slap in the face to the victims of 9/11.

Why?

[MazloomyarMaseed]

A lot of you guys are not New Yorkers so please refrain from these silly comments like they are not going to like them or not.


New Yorkers are the most tolerant people on earth. There are 6 Afghan mosques ALONE in one borough of New York city.

I do applogise if i misunderstood as i have never been to New york and with my style and description, i fear i will be interrogated and sent to some secret jail hahah jus kidding

[imb706]

New York City is like Hong Kong, it´s a hyper capitalist city and its not my cup of tea.

why

It would be like me building an Elohim City church near the Oaklahoma City bombing site.

[afghan]

A proposal to build a mosque steps from Ground Zero received the support of a downtown committee despite some loved ones of 9/11 victims finding it offensive.

The 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center was unanimously endorsed by the 12-member Community Board 1's financial district committee.

The $100 million project, called the Cordoba House, is proposed for the old Burlington Coat Factory building at Park Place and Broadway, just two blocks from the World Trade Center site.

"I think it will be a wonderful asset to the community," said committee Chairman Ro Sheffe.

Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, who helped found the Cordoba Initiative following the 9/11 attacks, said the project is intended to foster better relations between the West and Muslims.

He said the glass-and-steel building would include a 500-seat performing arts venue, a swimming pool and a basketball court. "There's nothing like it," said Rauf, adding that facilities will be open to all New Yorkers.

Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement and a member of the Cordoba Initiative's board, said donations are being sought to pay for the construction.

Khan said the project has received little opposition.

"Whatever concerns anybody has, we have to make sure to educate them that we are an asset to the community," Khan said.

Khan said her group hopes construction on the project will begin by the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Once built, 1,000 to 2,000 Muslims are expected to pray at the mosque every Friday, she said.

No one at last night's meeting protested the project. But some 9/11 families said they found the proposal offensive because the terrorists who launched the attacks were Muslim.

"I realize it's not all of them, but I don't want to have to go down to a memorial where my son died on 9/11 and look at a mosque," said retired FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches - whose son Jim, a firefighter, was killed on 9/11.

"If you ask me, it's a religion of hate," said Riches, who did not attend last night's meeting.

Rosemary Cain of Massapequa, L.I., whose son, Firefighter George Cain, 35, was killed in the 2001 attacks, called the project a "slap in the face."

"I think it's despicable. That's sacred ground," said Cain, who also did not attend the meeting.

"How could anybody give them permission to build a mosque there? It tarnishes the area."

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Daisy Khan is a Pashtun from Afghanistan, Pashtuns are doing big things in New York!

she is kashmiri not pashtun, she must lied to you.

http://www.asmasociety.org/about/b_dkhan.html

during general Zia's time some were saying that Zia was a pashtun as well.