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Mosque by Ground Zero Would Stir Hatred according to NY Guiliani
Let's face it, the Muslim religion doesn't belong here in the United States. And it surely does not belong near a sacred area born out of the tragedy of 9/11. Ground Zero sprang up as a reminder that we, the United States and its ethnic people called Americans have many enemies.
The U.S. has long been a place for immigrants to make money and send valuable dollars back to their homeland in support of families or to start businesses where they used to live. America is used for this specific purpose as a stepping stone for economic opportunities. But afterward, it is defamed, as are the people of this fine United States who still remain unappreciated by Middle Eastern people from all over the world.
As much as the traditions of the Western world should not change ethnic cultures like the ones that saturate the Middle East or the cultures of North or South Korea and even the ones in the Hindu-Indian parts of the world, neither should those people who bow in repetitive actions - five times -three times a day, chanting, ranting and raving listening to offensive Arabic gibberish music change our American ethnicity.
This is the basic rationale and reasoning that Americans use against building a Mosque near Ground Zero, an area directly adjacent to and a few blocks away from where the WTC towers used to stand.
Former Mayor Rudy Guiliani recently gave his opinions to NBC regarding this situation and he agrees with most adversary Americans who refuse to allow Arabic churches to be located near a site where Arabs destroyed a long standing American legacy, the World Trade Centers and killed thousands of innocent people for reasons that are still unknown.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, using the words "hatred," "anger" and "pain," turned up his rhetoric today against plans for building an Islamic center two blocks from the site of the 9/11 attacks.
Although he acknowledged the legal and constitutional rights of Muslims to build the mosque near ground zero, he said in an NBC "Today" show interview that the question was not whether the development should go ahead but rather one of "sensitivity and people's feelings."


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at 17:58 on August 19th, 2010
Good for Giuliani, sensitivity being the word instead of what is legal.
Versus Obama who seemed a tad cold hearted in all all.
at 04:10 on September 10th, 2010
@Uncensored News.The entire premise of your arguments is flimsy and preposterous.US establishment is as much hated by people all over the world as were other empires.How do you expect people,including American intellectuals,academics and political commentators,not to expose the agenda of global occupation being unrelentlingly persued by US since the end of ll WW and birth of UN.
I,too,am not supporter of construction of a mosque at ground Zero.But my opposition is not governed by Islamphobia or hatred.In my humble opinion one hundred million $ can be put to a much better use as there are more than sufficient mosques in New York.But the statement that mosque at ground Zero will hurt sesivity of people is,in plain words,nothing better than shith.If we accept this argument then why do we construct War Memorials,Holocaust Museums?Do memories associated with war or holocaust assuage our pains and greives or does it mean we want more wars and holocausts to happen?
at 21:04 on August 19th, 2010
It is arrogance and lack of knowledge of the history of Islam and Muslims' involvement with the New World, which predates the colonization and 'acquisition' of the native, Indigenous people's lands to establish the United States, that would have anyone declare what religion should not be in the United States.
After the founding of the U.S., one of the men often held up and revered by those claiming so much respect for the founders of this nation, Thomas Jefferson, is responsible for passing legislation that was to guarantee that no one suffer for his " .... religious opinions or belief".
Source: muslimsinamerica.org
at 01:17 on August 20th, 2010
yep, if you are against a mosque being built in the neighborhood of ground zero your opinion is based on hatred and fear. lol. >>> the building of the mosque at ground zero was criticized by muslims are they too hateful and fearful of islam? muslim authors raheel raza and tarek fatah both said, "We Muslims know the mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation, to thumb our noses at the infidel. The proposal has been made in bad faith, as fitna meaning "mischief-making" that is clearly forbidden in the Koran. As Muslims we are dismayed that our co-religionists have such little consideration for their fellow citizens, and wish to rub salt in their wounds and pretend they are applying a balm to sooth the pain." >>> Hossein Kamaly, Term Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University, observed: "After all, it was 19 Egyptian and Saudi Arabian thugs calling themselves Muslims who perpetrated this heinous crime on September 11th. They want to send a message of friendship, but building a mosque where there wasn't one before, is not the most nuanced way of doing that.">>> Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, said, " I don't think the Muslim leadership has fully appreciated the impact of 9/11 on America. They assume Americans have forgotten 9/11 and even, in a profound way, forgiven 9/11, and that has not happened. The wounds remain largely open and when wounds are raw, an episode like constructing a house of worship—even one protected by the Constitution, protected by law—becomes like salt in the wounds. >>>
at 01:42 on August 20th, 2010
Yes, it's all about sensitivity and people's feelings. I'd like to know what Guiliani thinks about this:Quran-Burning Church Vows To Proceed Without Fire Permit
As a counter to this "protest" we've got this: Jesus' General promotes "Burn a Confederate Flag Day"
at 03:33 on August 20th, 2010
@Nanute.My question is how contruction of a mosque at proposed site will hurt sensibilities of non-Muslims?In the first place,how the question of sensibilities arise?The planes which were piloted into WTC didn't take off from a mosque?Secondly,those associated with Cardoba Initiative would have done a much better job with 100 million $ which is estimated cost of their project by letting the people world over know the truth of 9/11,the role of Bush administration,the real beneficiaries of demolition of WTC.
at 08:17 on August 20th, 2010
I think you misunderstood my point. I support the cultural center and mosque at the proposed site. If you read my comment you will notice that I questioned how people like Rudy Guliani would respond to the proposed Qur'an burning scheduled by a "religious" group in Gainseville Fl. This situation did not become a controversy until it was made an issue by a right wing blogger name Pam Geller, and the subsequent help from FOX News and various political figures with an agenda. For a time line on the issue I recommend: How the "ground zero mosque" fear mongering began - War Room - Salon.com
at 15:04 on August 20th, 2010
@nanute.I definitely misunderstood your point,and am sorry for that.
at 16:03 on August 20th, 2010
No apology is required, but it is a sign of a gentleman. Thanks.
at 13:12 on August 20th, 2010
The whole controversy is ridiculous. Members of the KKK are allowed to march through whatever comunity they like, as long as they have a police escort to keep the peace. Where is "sensitivity over legal rights" there? The mosque may offend some, but their reasons for taking offence are often based around bigotry. Anti-Islam groups offend many non-muslims, yet they claim they have the right to free speach, and to hold their belief. It is hypocracy.