Mosque To Be Built Near WTC.....

[Nonno]

Mosque going up in NYC building damaged on 9/11

"NEW YORK — In a building damaged by debris from the Sept. 11 airliners that brought down the World Trade Center and soon to become a 13-story mosque, some see the bridging of a cultural divide and an opportunity to serve a burgeoning, peaceful religious population. Others see a painful reminder of the religious extremism that killed their loved ones.

Two Muslim organizations have partnered to open the mosque and cultural center in lower Manhattan, saying the $100 million project will create a venue for mainstream Islam and a counterbalance to radicalism. It earned a key endorsement this week from influential community leaders.

But some 9/11 victims' families said they were angered that it would be built so close to where their relatives died.

"I don't like it," said Evelyn Pettigano, who lost a sister in the attacks, during a phone interview on Thursday. "I'm not prejudiced. ... It's too close to the area where our family members were murdered."

But the growing number of congregants at the only other nearby mosque, open only one day a week, created a need for an additional space for Muslim prayer in the neighborhood, said Daisy Khan, the executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement and a board member of the Cordoba Initiative, the two organizations sponsoring the project.

The history associated with the building, a former Burlington Coat Factory store that closed after being damaged on 9/11, was a reason to pick it for the project, she said.

"We want to create a platform by which the voices of the mainstream and silent majority of Muslims will be amplified. A center of this scale and magnitude will do that," Khan said. "We feel it's an obligation as Muslims and Americans to be part of the rebuilding of downtown Manhattan."

More at: The Associated Press: Mosque going up in NYC building damaged on 9/11

Originally Posted by Nonno

But the growing number of congregants at the only other nearby mosque, open only one day a week,

obviously the other ####house needs to be open more

[imatard]

Maybe New York should legalise prostitution and open a whore house next door to the mosque.

Originally Posted by imatard

Maybe New York should legalise prostitution and open a whore house next door to the mosque.

only on the block .... and drugs and free booze as well


a pig slaughtering plant ... pour the blood in the streets