Mosque on ground Zero....Let's look back to history!!
By gie2910
@gie2910 (407)
United States
January 3, 2011 8:44pm CST
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, has said that the building of the mosque near the World Trade Center site was intended to make "the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11" (Spencer, par 4). The Islamic Center Committee has claimed that the planned mosque is “a project to honor those who were harmed on September 11. It is a project to proclaim our patriotism to this country and to stand side by side, all men, and women of peace.”(Spencer, par 6). However, Imam Rauf’s wife, Daisy Khan, acknowledged the fact behind the choice of that specific site. She said “they chose it because it was big enough and it had the right zoning. Moreover, it was symbolically advantageous” (Miller, par 8).
Looking back into history, a person would find that the Islamic history is full of mosques placed over a primary building in the conquered city, especially churches and Jewish temples, as symbol of the supremacy of Islam over that other religion. The Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is considered the third most holy place for Muslims after The Haramin (Masjed el-nabawy and the Kaaba), was built on the site of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in order to proclaim Islam's superiority to Judaism. The Haga Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople was converted into a mosque to express the superiority of Islam over Christianity. In Egypt, since the Ethiopian Empire was under the Alexandrian Patriarch, Muslims did not place that many mosques over churches, however Amr Ibn El-Aas decided to build a mosque next to every church –the churches that they were not able to destroy and build over- as a proclamation of the “unity” between Christians and Muslims. And today, the Intransigence of the Muslim governments in the Middle East has grown against any non-Muslim religion’s building.
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@achilles2010 (3051)
• India
5 Jan 11
Those who want to build the mosque at ground zero are not the ones who had destroyed WTC but the ones who had not. They must go and build the mosque in the hearts of those who had destroyed it and not in the heart of those who were harmed. They must build the mosque at the place of those from where those terrorists live so it may change their heart. Better still they must go and build a church near the ground zero and not a mosque. This way they would be able to proclaim patriotism towards a country they had harmed.
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@gie2910 (407)
• United States
5 Jan 11
Well, if we build a mosque in there, "at the place of those from where those terrorists live" they may develop more radicals!!
I agree on building a church...however I would love to see the new building (the freedom towers,etc) more than anything on its place!
@gie2910 (407)
• United States
5 Jan 11
First of all, I am American 100%. I had the US Citizen since I was born, for my parents are Americans. I was educated in American School in Egypt too. I got my American Diploma from Egypt (believe it or not they have programs for American Diploma in Egypt). I know the constitution better than what u think,I am in pre-Law.
Second, I think you never opened a Bible before,in the Old testament there was no Christians ma'am, However there are LOTS of explanations about these wars in he OT given from Sheyokh (Muslims' "priests").
Now in the NT, where did it say kill someone who doesn't believe??? U just proved my point that u never opened the Bible before obliviously!!
And if you were talking about the crusades, we condemn the crusades FROM the bible. And the prove for that. Read History and you will find that the Pope of Alexandria Blessed the Muslim Egyptian Prince (salah el-din) before going to war. Lots of Christians were in Salah EL-din's army fighting against the crusades simply because they knew that the crusades were not from the bible and that they were just using the cross to show-off/ find a cause for the war!
Third, I can promise you are escaping over what I wrote. I exactly said,above ur comment here, "however I would love to see the new building (the freedom towers,etc) more than anything on its place!"
Finally, I never said I hate Muslims. My Lord commanded us to love everyone even our enemies. However I hate the action they are taking. Bombing churches in new years' eve and Christmas' eve is what we hate. I hate the Quran because it tells them to do that and they are just following it.
If you are going to change the subject here to Religion matters,I am more than happy to answer you, but here is not the right place. However I can give you a website so you can find answers!
God Bless America :)
@TheMetallion (1834)
• United States
5 Jan 11
they may develop more radicals!
Riiiight... gotta watch out for those radical Sufis.
Or did you not know Imam Rauf is a Sufi like you didn't know they've been building the Freedom Towers for the last few years?
Maybe instead of all this yammering about what should and shouldn't be going on, you should spend some effort getting your facts straight?
@TheMetallion (1834)
• United States
4 Jan 11
If building a mosque "over a primary building" is a "symbol of the supremacy of Islam over that other religion," you should have no objection whatsoever to building a community center two blocks away from a building with no religious significance whatsoever, particularly considering that the community center in question will be utterly dwarfed by the building currently being constructed where WTC used to be.
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@gie2910 (407)
• United States
4 Jan 11
The building doesn't have to be over a religious building to symbolize supremacy. My research was actually about 8 papers long to clear this point but I did not include all of it.
The twin towers were representing the greatness of America's economy. The placing of the mosque/"community" building will then symbolize the supremacy of Islam over the US (Which is the goal of every single muslim nation right now actually, believe it or not! )
I wish they can build something else over WTC that can resemble the greatness of the US again!
@TheMetallion (1834)
• United States
4 Jan 11
Wow, you're talking all this crap and you haven't even heard of the Freedom Tower?!? They expect it to be built by 2013. Not only will it dwarf Park51, Park 51 won't visible from the WTC site unless you're up in the tower looking down.
If Imam Rauf is intending Park51 as some sort of symbol of Islamic supremacy over America, he's doing a really crappy job of planning it. Excellent plan for a community center, though, which the neighborhood really does need.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
4 Jan 11
How is this even still an issue. The Imam doesn't have the funding to build a prayer circle, much less a huge mosque, nor does he own most the land he wants to build on.
This is a non issue.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
4 Jan 11
The approval is the easy part. There is little funding, and like I said, the Immam doesn't even own most the land he wants to build on. So far he hasn't even been able to get the owners of the adjacent properties to even think about selling to him.
@vikkiz (518)
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5 Jan 11
I think its disgusting and it shouldn't be allowed!
I am not religious and i do not care for anyone else's religion but putting a mosque in the place that Muslims killed thousands of people is a kick in the teeth to all those family's who lost a loved one that day.They know exactly what they are doing and they intend on making mockery of America just like they do in Britain!
I dont know why the government is hell bent on pleasing these people!
@gie2910 (407)
• United States
5 Jan 11
I feel sorry for that bro!! I love Britain and have always dreamed to visit London!
I am afraid that a day will come when the US will have the same situation, since we don't want to learn form what already have happened in countries like yours!
Thanks for the support bud!
