Mosque to be Built Near Ground Zero

It's a standard planning application, duly approved

Christian radicals don't go ramming planes into buildings, the worst the Christian radicals do is steal money and hug too often

A. The laws that protect the right to build this building

B. What the building will do, and that all will be welcome in it

C. Who the imam is and where he stands on radicalism

. Who created the controversy on the project are. You've even been given a detailed timeline for which you brushed off as if it didn't matter

That non-Muslim religious comminuted and leaders have spoken in support of Park51

The facts side with the promoters of Park51

They are not building anything offensive or dangerous.

They have even modified their programming goals to include an interfaith chapel.

A gesture of good faith which has gone to utter waste on people like yourself who have no interest in being anything but hateful

You don't have any facts to support that the project should be moved

Firefly nailed it on you: you don't want this built anywhere, you're simply masking your bigotry.

Yup, Hawkeye, all Christian radicals do is steal money and hug too often

While I agree with Cole that there are looming and current problems that stem from the semantics of how we talk about terrorism, the issue here is the extent to which terrorists successfully justify their actions to the mainstream Muslim community and the extent to which they employ language and arguments which are reasonably grounded in popular Muslim thought.

Ultimately, the definition of "Islamic terrorism" derives from the actions and beliefs of the terrorists, but it carries weight (and provokes controversy) because of the success of jihadist movements in justifying themselves to the wider Muslim population and situating their actions within the context of Islamic law.

The phrase "Islamic terrorism" is not so much an indictment of Islam as it is an important and necessary description of the demographic group from which the terrorists seek to win support (with some degree of success).

Timothy McVeigh and other oft-named "Christian terrorists" like the IRA do not overtly seek to mobilize the whole of Christianity in their support, and they do not spend intellectual capital justifying their actions to the wider Christian audience. That's a critical difference, and it's the primary reason we don't talk about "Christian terrorists" all that much.

Dude, you are such a coward. When you open up your resturant, why don't you hang up a sign that says "no Muslims".

You're such a weak man.

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Comparing Timothy McVeighn to Muslin bombers/terrorists is about as dishonest an act as it is possible to do

If you have paid any attention at all you know that they have been roundly denounced by just about everyone connected to Christianity. Also, there were never very many of them.

All that we expect out of the Muslims to to do the same re the terrorists who attack the West. Well, that and to act like they want to get along.

He does not care what we want, when the majority objects to his plan he claims that only a radical fringe does, and now he is claiming that Christianity has radicals on par with Muslim radicals when it is demonstratively not true.

Yes I am; the majority in the US are christians. It's not rocket science to figure out that most against this project are christians. It's estimated that over 80% of Americans declare their religion as christian.

You may slice those numbers any way you wish, but the majority still comes out christian.

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As for education, I maintain that I am well educated, better than most, so I do not accept your assertion.

You should, therefore, be well aware that education and intelligence are not one and the same. Your education I could buy. Intelligence? Well......

A founding member of an organization run by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the driving force behind the planned mosque near Ground Zero, claims that the 9/11 attacks were an "inside job" and that Muslims have been made scapegoats, The Post has learned.

Faiz Khan -- who has preached at least twice at the former Burlington Coat Factory building, the site of the proposed mosque -- was for years Rauf's partner in the American Society for the Advancement of Muslims, which is dedicated to promoting a better understanding of Islam.

Khan also serves on the advisory board of Muslims for 9/11 Truth and is a founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, known as MUJCA.



On MUJCA's Web site, Khan wrote that "the inescapable fact [is] that 9/11 was an inside job."

"The prime factor for the success of the criminal mission known as 9/11 did not come from the quarter known as 'militant Islam,' although the phenomenon known as 'militant Islamic networks' may have played a partial role, or even a less than partial role -- perhaps the role of patsy and scapegoat," he wrote in documents uncovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

Khan was listed as one of three directors of the American Society for the Advancement of Muslims in its 1997 incorporation papers, when it went by the name of the American Sufi Muslim Association.

ASMA and Rauf's Cordoba Initiative are spearheading the drive to create a $100 million Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero.

In an e-mail exchange with The Post, Khan said he ended his affiliation with the ASMA in "2002 and 2003," although that claim is contradicted by a record of him speaking at a 2006 ASMA conference in Copenhagen, where his bio listed him as a board member.

When The Post asked Khan who he thought was responsible for 9/11, he initially declined comment, but later said in an e-mail: "I am certain of a few things . . . The towers and WTC 7 could not have collapsed without controlled demolition place from the 'inside.' "

Ray Locker, managing director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, said: "For someone who claims he wants the mosque project near Ground Zero to help build bridges and heal the wounds from 9/11, it's odd that one of Feisal Rauf's fellow bridge builders is someone who thinks the attacks that killed more than 3,000 people were an 'inside job' by the US government."



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