Thread: Ground Zero "mosque" opens without protests

Not just cuckoo clocks and chocolate....

Originally Posted by Neo

Originally Posted by Strongarm

This is a clear indication of their total disrespect for anyone other than themselves.

Bomb the fvcking place.

American..?

Nope.

Originally Posted by Strongarm

total disrespect for anyone other than themselves.

A community centre equally open to all faiths and races, that provides low cost child care, dining, meeting, and sporting facilities to an inner city community and does not contain a Mosque or any other consecrated place of worship, is hardly showing total disrespect to anyone.

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by Strongarm

total disrespect for anyone other than themselves.

A community centre equally open to all faiths and races, that provides low cost child care, dining, meeting, and sporting facilities to an inner city community and does not contain a Mosque or any other consecrated place of worship, is hardly showing total disrespect to anyone.

How many non-muslims living in the lower Manhatten area do you think will use the "low cost child care, dining, meeting and sporting facilities" at an Islamic Centre only blocks from the Ground Zero site?

^ Many of them. In particular, low cost day care facilities are very hard to find in lower Manhattan, and not everyone that lives there is an Investment Wanker. The trumped up protests against Park51 originated from two rabidly zionist Right Wing blog's. The cosmopolitan local community was never much bothered by it.

Hey, it's a shame the daycare facilities are not up and running- the current protesters on Wall St could sure make use of them, to keep their kids out of harms way.

Will men and women be able to use the gym and swimming pool at the same time? Will there be a religious dress code imposed on non-Muslims?

Time will tell pretty quickly how moderate this group really is.

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Will men and women be able to use the gym and swimming pool at the same time?

Yes

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Will there be a religious dress code imposed on non-Muslims?

No. Neither will there be a 'religious dress code' imposed on Muslims for that matter, except I daresay you won't be allowed in the prayer room wearing a dripping wet bikini from the swimming pool. More's the pity.

Where did you get the info re: the gym and pool?

Hopefully you are correct, but strict Muslim men aren't going to want to share the pool with women of any religion.

Originally Posted by FailSafe

but strict Muslim men aren't going to want to share the pool with women of any religion.

Neither orthodox Jewish men. So they won't swim there, obviously.
I looked quite intensively into the whole thing- the degree of deliberately promulgated disinformation was laughable, and ultimately pathetic.

To me it seems incongruous to build an Islamic center that will have facilities that will be unusable by strict adherents of Islam.

Originally Posted by FailSafe

an Islamic center

It is not an Islamic centre- but strict adherents of Islam will, like strict adherents of Judaism, or Santi Asoke, or Veganism, or Queens pawn chess openings, be able to rent one of various sized conference rooms and talk to each other if they so wish.

Originally Posted by FailSafe

I can see they're trying to be tolerant and accepting of other religions, but Islam is obviously their focus.

Yeah, and?

It is rumored that in the U.S. you can believe in any kooky religion you want as long as you don't bother other folks too much (LDS and Jehova Witnesses excepted I guess). I don't much like anything that Islam has to offer but I also don't have a problem with them worshipping their Allah in their own buildings. So why does it bother you?

I didn't say it did (see post #14)- what bothers me is tip-toeing around the subject and not calling the place what it is- are you saying this isn't an 'Islamic center'?

Sabang is carrying on saying it's not a mosque, when in fact a mosque is being built by the same people right next door (though they claim it isn't 'affiliated' it has the same developers and owners)- this is the link that is attached to the Park51 website where the Park51 people call it a mosque on the text of the YouTube link:

PrayerSpace

Just a case of taqiyya.

Taqiyya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Islam is evil.

^ you're joking.

^ Then again, an Egyptian Muslim I knew, once said to me that Muslims are hypocrites.

Originally Posted by Agent_Smith

Originally Posted by FailSafe

I can see they're trying to be tolerant and accepting of other religions, but Islam is obviously their focus.

Yeah, and?

It is rumored that in the U.S. you can believe in any kooky religion you want as long as you don't bother other folks too much (LDS and Jehova Witnesses excepted I guess). I don't much like anything that Islam has to offer but I also don't have a problem with them worshipping their Allah in their own buildings. So why does it bother you?

You can believe anything you like under the Charter of Declaration of Human Rights.

Article 20,
Paragraph 2.

"...can not be forced to ....." etc.

Originally Posted by Agent_Smith

Originally Posted by FailSafe

I can see they're trying to be tolerant and accepting of other religions, but Islam is obviously their focus.

Yeah, and?

It is rumored that in the U.S. you can believe in any kooky religion you want as long as you don't bother other folks too much (LDS and Jehova Witnesses excepted I guess). I don't much like anything that Islam has to offer but I also don't have a problem with them worshipping their Allah in their own buildings. So why does it bother you?

You can believe anything you like under the Charter of Declaration of Human Rights.

Article 20,
Paragraph 2.

"...can not be forced to ....." etc.

Originally Posted by FailSafe

are you saying this isn't an 'Islamic center'?

I'm saying I don't care what they call it as long as they don't bother anyone with their superstitious nonsense.

Originally Posted by ENT

Muslims are hypocrites.

Noam Chomsky said 'we are all hypocrites'. I believe him.
Muzzies, sure- just look at the way they woop it up when outside their home countries.
Or the great OBL and his big Porn collection.

Egyptians don't like Arabs much, even if they are Muslim.

They're far more moderate and tolerant of Christians and Jews than most other Islamic states.

I met some Muslims from Timbuktu a couple of years ago, in a night club (of all places) in Dubai. Ended up being invited to stay with them in Timbuktu.

I'd love to spend time there.

It is a major Islamic university city, with some amazing architecture and a very ancient history.

It also has a strong Jewish community there, and upholds religious freedom.

Originally Posted by ENT

Egyptians don't like Arabs much, even if they are Muslim.
They're far more moderate and tolerant of Christians and Jews than most other Islamic states.

They may well be more tolerant and moderate than other islamic states; but their treatment of the indigenous christian community is by non-islamic standards abysmal. Its like describing rhodesia's treatment black people as moderate compared to aparthate south africa.

^ Agreed.
The Coptic Church has taken a battering lately.

Timbuktu in Mali is probably the most tolerant of all Islamic communities.

During Saddam Hussein's time, Iraq had quite a strong Jewish community, co-existing
well with Islam.

The last count I read, only a few hundred are left, and the locals didn't want them to leave, but things got worse for them after USA "liberated" the place.

^^ Noam Chomski is always worth listening to, a brilliant mind.