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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 760942" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p>Personally I don't see this as a right or left issue but rather one of common decency and respect for the one's lost there. I don't think the terrorists were counting how many dems or repubs they were killing...</p><p></p><p>Reid: Build mosque elsewhere</p><p></p><p>The Senate's top Democrat says a mosque should not be built near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.</p><p></p><p>Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada on Monday became the highest profile Democrat to break with President Barack Obama, who on Friday backed the right for the developers to build a mosque near ground zero.</p><p></p><p>In a statement, Reid said the first amendment protects freedom of religion and he respects that, but the mosque should be built somewhere else.</p><p></p><p>Mosque at ground zero lacks respect</p><p></p><p>Location matters. Especially this location. Ground zero is the site of the greatest mass murder in American history — perpetrated by Muslims of a particular Islamist orthodoxy in whose cause they died and in whose name they killed.</p><p></p><p>Of course that strain represents only a minority of Muslims. Islam is no more intrinsically Islamist than present-day Germany is Nazi — yet despite contemporary Germany's innocence, no German of good will would even think of proposing a German cultural center at, say, Treblinka. Which makes you wonder about the goodwill behind Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's proposal. This is a man who has called U.S. policy "an accessory to the crime" of 9/11 and, when recently asked whether Hamas is a terrorist organization, replied, "I'm not a politician. ... The issue of terrorism is a very complex question."</p><p></p><p>America is a free country where you can build whatever you want — but not anywhere. That's why we have zoning laws. No liquor store near a school, and, if your house doesn't meet community architectural codes, you cannot build at all.</p><p>These restrictions are for reasons of aesthetics. Others are for more profound reasons of common decency and respect for the sacred. No commercial tower over Gettysburg, no convent at Auschwitz — and no mosque at ground zero. Build it anywhere but there.</p><p></p><p>The governor of New York offered to help find land to build the mosque elsewhere. A mosque really seeking to build bridges, Rauf's ostensible hope for the structure, would accept the offer.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/peaceful.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":peaceful:" title="Peaceful :peaceful:" data-shortname=":peaceful:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 760942, member: 1940"] Personally I don't see this as a right or left issue but rather one of common decency and respect for the one's lost there. I don't think the terrorists were counting how many dems or repubs they were killing... Reid: Build mosque elsewhere The Senate's top Democrat says a mosque should not be built near the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada on Monday became the highest profile Democrat to break with President Barack Obama, who on Friday backed the right for the developers to build a mosque near ground zero. In a statement, Reid said the first amendment protects freedom of religion and he respects that, but the mosque should be built somewhere else. Mosque at ground zero lacks respect Location matters. Especially this location. Ground zero is the site of the greatest mass murder in American history — perpetrated by Muslims of a particular Islamist orthodoxy in whose cause they died and in whose name they killed. Of course that strain represents only a minority of Muslims. Islam is no more intrinsically Islamist than present-day Germany is Nazi — yet despite contemporary Germany's innocence, no German of good will would even think of proposing a German cultural center at, say, Treblinka. Which makes you wonder about the goodwill behind Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's proposal. This is a man who has called U.S. policy "an accessory to the crime" of 9/11 and, when recently asked whether Hamas is a terrorist organization, replied, "I'm not a politician. ... The issue of terrorism is a very complex question." America is a free country where you can build whatever you want — but not anywhere. That's why we have zoning laws. No liquor store near a school, and, if your house doesn't meet community architectural codes, you cannot build at all. These restrictions are for reasons of aesthetics. Others are for more profound reasons of common decency and respect for the sacred. No commercial tower over Gettysburg, no convent at Auschwitz — and no mosque at ground zero. Build it anywhere but there. The governor of New York offered to help find land to build the mosque elsewhere. A mosque really seeking to build bridges, Rauf's ostensible hope for the structure, would accept the offer.:peaceful: [/QUOTE]
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