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Islamic Mosque near ground zero

And there's an uproar (at least on my FB feeds).  Honestly, I don't think it's that big of a deal, specifically because the building was one that was hit by some debris, but wasn't a landmark. 

ETA:  The link:  http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/vote-could-clear-way-for-ground-zero-mosque/19578724?icid=main|main|dl1|link5|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Fvote-could-clear-way-for-ground-zero-mosque%2F19578724

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Re: Islamic Mosque near ground zero

  • It's not even a mosque, it's a community center that includes a prayer space for Muslims who work in the NYC financial district.  The people who are against this would probably go cold NUTS if someone ever told them how many Muslims are just FREELY WALKING AROUND (!), unmonitored, in New York.  People of other religions don't yell or throw things at them.  It's wacky.
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  • I think it's ridiculous.  This is a community center on the model of YMCAs and Jewish Community Centers. 
  • I heard that Muslims pray to Osama Bin Laden. 
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  • I tend to be pretty conservative about this stuff - I don't know if it's because I am a New Yorker (at heart) and was there on Sept. 11th.  But, I don't see a problem with this - lots of buildings around there were hit by debris (including my then office). 

    I would, however, have a problem if this were the actual WTC site, only because I think that whatever is built there should be free of religious denomination.  And, you have to admit there is some irony there, if it were being built on the actual site.  But it is not, so no issue.

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  • image_Fenton:
    It's not even a mosque, it's a community center that includes a prayer space for Muslims who work in the NYC financial district.  The people who are against this would probably go cold NUTS if someone ever told them how many Muslims are just FREELY WALKING AROUND (!), unmonitored, in New York.  People of other religions don't yell or throw things at them.  It's wacky.

    Hah.  Exactly.  That is like my college classmate saying she had never seen a gay person.  EVER.  Because you know, she would just KNOW if she saw one.  We were sitting in a lecture hall of 500 people and she freaked when I told her there were probably 50 of them sitting around here at that moment.

    People are dum sometimes. Or really most times.

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  • imageCaliopeSpidrman:
    I heard that Muslims pray to Osama Bin Laden. 

    You're misinformed.  they pray to Obama

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  • imagesamfish2bcrab:

    imageCaliopeSpidrman:
    I heard that Muslims pray to Osama Bin Laden. 

    You're misinformed.  they pray to Obama

    Have you ever seen Obama and Osama in the same room before?  No you have not.  And the reason is because they are the same person.  Duh.  Half breed muslin.

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  • imageCaliopeSpidrman:
    imagesamfish2bcrab:

    imageCaliopeSpidrman:
    I heard that Muslims pray to Osama Bin Laden. 

    You're misinformed.  they pray to Obama

    Have you ever seen Obama and Osama in the same room before?  No you have not.  And the reason is because they are the same person.  Duh.  Half breed muslin.

    . Whoa! You guys are blowing my mind right now!
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  • I prefer full muslin. The half breed stuff never holds up well.
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  • November, have you ever heard the song Have You Forgotten? by Dale Worley?  It's country, and terrible, so you might not have.  I was talking about it the other day and I heard it on the radio yesterday.  I have a full three-minute Lanie face.  I imagine this would be so incredibly offensive to people who were present in NYC or DC that day.  Thoughts?
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  • I just read the lyrics and it's pretty safe to say that if I heard the song, I'd have no eyes because they would have rolled right on out of my head.  It's obnoxious.  No, I haven't forgotten.  I haven't forgotten that we waged a war with the wrong country, based on nothing other than our president's personal vendetta, mixed with economic interests.  I haven't forgotten feeling as though I might have reached the end of my life on that day (it was the only time I was genuinely unsure of my own survival), or the stories from acquaintances who made it out of the towers in time, running down stairways past women who had gone into labor in the buildings (this is an image that has continued to haunt me).  Thanks for reminding me, Daryl Worley.  Douche.
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  • That's kind of what I thought.

    He would play the footage on TV every day, too. He probably has a large rape porn collection.

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  • That song was written in 2002. a little over a year after...not exactly enough time to forget.
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