NYC community board OKs ground zero mosque plans

[Drolefille]

It's a community center that includes a mosque. It's not even like minarets and "stereotypical mosque building here"

Also I love how we're "ok" with a mosque, just not "here."

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

It's a community center that includes a mosque. It's not even like minarets and "stereotypical mosque building here"

Also I love how we're "ok" with a mosque, just not "here."

I had heard about this last week and one of the factors that is getting people up in arms is that the Imam involved with this has made controversial comments/writings in the past. I noticed that wasn't in the article. Some see this as being a show of Islamic supremacy, a modern day version of Dome of The Rock or Hagia Sophia.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

I had heard about this last week and one of the factors that is getting people up in arms is that the Imam involved with this has made controversial comments/writings in the past. I noticed that wasn't in the article. Some see this as being a show of Islamic supremacy, a modern day version of Dome of The Rock or Hagia Sophia.

Yeah it has nothing to do with Dome of the Rock or Hagia Sophia. It's a community center with a mosque, kind of like how my Catholic campus had a YWCA and a mosque on it.

I think the thing that gets most people 'up in arms' about it is that it's Islam and that a majority of them wouldn't know what an Imam was or what a controversial statement in Islam was.