Plan to build mosque near 9/11 site likely to go through
Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by Leon Kennedy in Other
Despite furious opposition from conservative protesters, the proposed mosque to be built near the site of the September 11th tragedy will likely go ahead. It would be a large-scale project costing $100 million and involving a 13 storey building with a swimming pool, restaurant, and would be located in Park Place, just north of the 9/11 site.
Protests have been conducted along the lines that the mosque would be an insult to those who died in the September 11th attacks, and the project has even been referred to as the “9/’11 victory mosque”. Newt Gingrich said that the project constituted an “assertion of Islamist triumphalism which we should not tolerate,” and that it was “designed to undermine and destroy our civilisation”. Sarah Palin said that it would “stabs hearts … twin towers site is too raw, too real”.
Thankfully, other individuals who are not totally ridiculous have pointed out the ignorance of this point of view. “If we are so afraid of something like this, what does it say about us? Democracy is stronger than this. You know, the ability to practise your religion was one of the real reasons America was founded.” In that vein, the very reason for the building of this mosque was to nurture an understanding between Islam and the West; equating Islam itself with extremist violence is preposterous.
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