Mosque at ground zero?

[Fairweather]

THIS IS THE REPRIEVE FROM ECONOMIC GROWTH-ADDICTION AND RAMPANT CONSUMERISM THAT LEFTISTS EVERYWHERE HAVE BEEN PRAYING TO ALLAH FOR! AND IT'S ALL THANKS TO GEORGE W BUSH!!

[prole]

Ironic, isn't it?

[summitchaserCJB]

don't do it. That is all.

[Fairweather]

[Stefan]

I am not an educated person on the Islam religion...so how can a former building be a mosque? Don't they have to erect the building to be a mosque?

[JayB]

I am not a fan of the system of ideas that's encompassed by Islam, Sharia, etc - so I'd be happy if no more mosques were ever built anywhere - but as long as they're bound by the same laws that pertain to other churches they have the right to build their mosque there.

 

If nothing else, it may serve as a concrete illustration of the shift in cultural, economic, and demographic power that's been underway ever since the the 1930s. You may not be interested in Islam, but Islam is interested in you.

[bstach]

Why would you let the terrorists build a mosque on ground 0? If you do, terrorists win!

[kevbone]

Agreed except this was a very left leaning show I was listening too.

 

what were you listening to?

 

Tom Heartman.

[kevbone]

but as long as they're bound by the same laws that pertain to other churches they have the right to build their mosque there.

 

 

 

 

[prole]

Growing number in America believe Obama a Muslim

 

A growing number of Americans incorrectly believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim, research suggests.

 

Some 18% said the president was a Muslim, up from 11% in March 2009, according to the Pew Research survey of 3,003 Americans.

 

Among Republicans, that number was 34%. Just a third of those quizzed correctly identified Mr Obama as Christian.

 

Polling was done before 13 August when Mr Obama defended Muslims' right to build an Islamic centre by Ground Zero.

 

 

Forty-three per cent of those questioned said they did not know what Mr Obama's religion was.

 

[ARob]

In a poll conducted by me while flipping through the channels, 97% of Americans are fucking idiots.

[kevbone]

In a poll conducted by me while flipping through the channels, 97% of Americans are fucking idiots.

 

Really? That low huh?

[kevbone]

 

A growing number of Americans incorrectly believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim, research suggests.

 

 

Who cares if he is a muslim or not? What does it matter?

[olyclimber]

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[Lucky Larry]

Osama Bin Ladin is not a Muslim (one who submits to God) anymore than the Spanish conquistadores were Christens; he is a fanatical megalomaniac-like Hitler. He no more represents Islamic faith than those involved in the inquisition represented the Christen faith. 'Mission accomplished', says Bin. 'I have conquered America by dividing it's people into angry, bitter, auguring mobs of citizens and politicians; they will eat each other alive.'

 

[Buckaroo]

"Tom Heartman."

 

Thom Hartman

[ivan]

sure will be funny when fig-eaters manage to get a 3 story mosque up b4 Uncle Sam can get construction out of the fucking basement of ground z, even w/ a 9 year headstart

[kevbone]

fig-eaters

 

?

 

I have a fig tree in my back yard that produces hundreds of fig's every August. Am I a muslim now?

[ivan]

consult the big lebowski dood

[sobo]

Yeah, the dude abides...

[RedNose]

76 virgins in Aaaaaaaaaaaaarab heaven and there ain't one on this web site. hahahahahaha

 

No I'm bothered by this.

1. we do have freedom of religion

2. if Jews or Christians tried to something similar in a Islamic country it would be shot down with no say at all.

3. what do we do? I guess the screen play will lend itself to a climax some where in the not so far off future.

[billcoe]

76 virgins in Aaaaaaaaaaaaarab heaven and there ain't one on this web site. hahahahahaha

 

No I'm bothered by this.

1. we do have freedom of religion

2. if Jews or Christians tried to something similar in a Islamic country it would be shot down with no say at all.

3. what do we do? I guess the screen play will lend itself to a climax some where in the not so far off future.

....and the good news is that it appears that it is eligible for public subsidized loans! So congrats as we will get to help pay for it. (that is, us who are taxpayers and not slackers and system suckers like JB who must be off to his regressive get-to-gether Glen Beck march at the MLK tunnel of love.)

 

 

 

"NEW YORK | Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:58pm EDT

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.

 

The Democratic comptroller's spokesman, Scott Sieber, said Liu supported the project. The center has sparked an intense debate over U.S. religious freedoms and the sanctity of the Trade Center site, where nearly 3,000 perished in the September 11, 2001 attack.

 

"If it turns out to be financially feasible and if they can demonstrate an ability to pay off the bonds and comply with the laws concerning tax-exempt financing, we'd certainly consider it," Sieber told Reuters.

 

Spokesmen for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson and the Islamic center and were not immediately available.

 

The proposed center, two blocks from the Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, has caused a split between people who lost relatives and friends in the attack, as well as conservative politicians, and those who support the project. Among those who support it are the mayor, civic and religious groups, and some families of victims.

 

The mosque's backers hope to raise a total of $70 million in tax-exempt debt to build the center, according to the New York Times. Tax laws allow such funding for religiously affiliated non-profits if they can prove the facility will benefit the general public and their religious activities are funded separately.

 

The bonds could be issued through a local development corporation created for this purpose, experts said.

 

The Islamic center would have to repay the bonds, which likely would be less expensive than taxable debt.

 

New York City's Industrial Development Authority could not issue debt for the center because the state civic facilities law, which governed this type of financing for non-profits, was allowed to expire about two years ago.

 

(Reporting by Joan Gralla; Editing by Dan Grebler)"

 

ps, the tax thing is a joke, merely one more reason not to move to NYC.

[prole]

...and the good news is that it appears that it is eligible for public subsidized loans!

 

OMGWTF NOW IM REALLY ANGRY!!! GOD I HOPE SOMEONE COMES ALONG TO CHANNEL MY RAGE AND SOON!!!

[JosephH]

If it qualifies then it is no different than any other project qualifying for tax-exempt bonds, what's the problem? Or is it with the notion of tax-exempt municipal bonds in general?

[prole]

FUCK IF I KNOW BUT IM GOING TO FIND OUT AT THE GLENN BECK FREEDOM RALLY THIS WEEKEND!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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