Hostile ? I'll show you freaking HOSTILE !!
Posted on 09/02/2010 8:55:33 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
NEW YORK (AP) - It is "unethical, insensitive and inhumane" to oppose the planned mosque near ground zero, more than 50 leading Muslim organizations said Wednesday as they cast the intense debate as a symptom of religious intolerance in America.
The imam behind the project, meanwhile, was preparing to return to the U.S. after a taxpayer-funded good will tour to the Mideast, where he said the debate is about much more than "a piece of real estate." Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf sidestepped questions about whether he would consider moving the $100 million mosque and Islamic community center farther from where Islamic terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center. Instead, he stressed the need to embrace religious and political freedoms in the United States.
Leaders of the Majlis Ash-Shura of Metropolitan New York, an Islamic leadership council that represents a broad spectrum of Muslims in the city, gathered on the steps of City Hall to issue a statement calling for a stop to religious intolerance and affirming the right of the center's developers to build two blocks north of the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
"We support the right of our Muslim brothers who wish to build that center there," said Imam Al Amin Abdul Latif, president of the Majlis Ash-Shura. "However, the bigger issue and the broader issue is the issue of ethnic and religious hatred being spread by groups trying to stop the building of mosques and Islamic institutions across the country."
This is the first time that the council as a body has spoken out on the weeks-old debate over the proposed center.
"When the issue became hotter and hotter, and people made more statements against the mosques, then we decided to get involved in it," said Syed Sajid Husain, secretary general of the council. He said the process of bringing together the leaders to agree on a statement also took a handful of meetings.
Leaders of the council said they were calling attention to what they claimed was an anti-Islamic climate, and that the development of a center near ground zero is simply one example.
They also cited a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in Tennessee that is being investigated by the FBI, and the successful opposition to the proposed conversion of a property owned by a Catholic Church into a mosque and community center on Staten Island, a New York City borough off the southern tip of Manhattan.
Rick Lazio, a Republican candidate for governor of New York who has opposed the mosque in lower Manhattan, has said criticism is "not an issue of religion." Like many critics, he has said it is an issue of being sensitive to the families of 9/11 victims and transparency regarding the center's funding.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday showed 71 percent of New Yorkers want the developers to voluntarily move the project.
Islamic leaders on Wednesday said they would support a move to another location, if that's what the imam and his supporters choose to do. But they emphasized that Muslims also were killed in the terrorist attacks and were first responders.
"We declare unethical, insensitive and inhumane, the notion that our co-religionists are not entitled to the respect of a place of worship according to their faith, near the location where men and women of our religion worked, lived and died - just like other people," the group's statement said in part.
The group is not associated with the planned Islamic center but is representative of a significant number of New York Muslim leaders.
Rauf has been on a U.S. State Department-sponsored interfaith tour of the Middle East for several weeks and is currently in the United Arab Emirates, said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley, speaking to reporters in Washington, D.C. Rauf was expected to return to the U.S. on Thursday.
The imam told a group that included professors and policy researchers in Dubai on Tuesday that the dispute over the mosque "has expanded beyond a piece of real estate and expanded to Islam in America and what it means for America."
Rauf is named as a director of a recently formed nonprofit organization spearheading efforts to raise money for the project, along with a core group of developers that own the property where the center would be established. The developers say they are negotiating with the city to reduce and pay back over $225,000 in back taxes owed on the property.
Early plans for the Islamic center near ground zero call for a swimming pool, a Sept. 11 memorial open to the public and a prayer space.
When they will say in unison: Alahu Akbar! (which by the way means - Allah is greatest....not god is great)
Hostile ? I'll show you freaking HOSTILE !!
Inhumane? like 9/11,beslen,baili?
go back your freking holes islamasavages
Go home you POS people!
0bama has allowed them to take the offense and bring it right to NYC, and push it right in our faces.
Hey Muslims.........f*** you.
**NY Muslim groups decry hostile atmosphere**
Boo freakin’ hoo
These guys are jumping the shark to absurdity. Keep digging that hole with the American people there Achmed.
Iran?
has expanded beyond a piece of real estate and expanded to Islam in America and what it means for America."
The death cult is being exposed, fight or submit is what it means for America.
UH....YOU idiots CREATED the HOSTILE atmosphere....on 9/11! Now....go somewhere else....like back to your Muslim country...which we are NOT!
muck a bunch of fuslims.
But they emphasized that Muslims also were killed in the terrorist attacks and were first responders.I keep hearing this talking point but have never seen any details. (I'm presuming that they're not talking about the hijackers who were killed.)
Were a few of the WTC employees Muslims? While that's probably the case, I'd call that more of a coincidence than anything else. With the sheer number of employees working there, a few of them would almost have to have been Muslims.
Has anybody seen any hard data on the numbers of either Muslim WTC employees or Muslim police/fire/rescue personnel?
Get out you worthless savages, this is Our country NOT yours.
Is this a joke?
Since when does any "leading Muslim organization" have any moral legitimacy or standing to voice an opinion about "religious intolerance" of others?
You killed my cousin. Here is an account of the last twenty minutes of his life:
Corroborating the observations of Paul Mallery’s 10 House rescue team (across the street from Tim’s position, in direct line of sight with 4 Truck), Tim noticed that near the end, probably as the upper floors began to slip and to crack open, people were indeed swarming out of windows above the fire. One of them had fallen upon Dan Suhr of Engine 216, killing him in an instant. Looking to his left, Tim saw 4 Truck parked on the sidewalk, just east of the Liberty Street entrance. It’s driver, Michael Lynch, was struggling with a Hurst tool – trying to free the “jaws of life” from the rig, so he could pry open the doors of the crushed elevator, and free Linda’s friends. He was having difficulty with the heavy, motor end of the tool, so he called to Tim for help. Tim started running toward the rig, but another man beat him to it, and saved his life. “Never mind,” Michael called out. “We’ve got it.” Considering the danger that was raining down and exploding all around them, Tim would recall later that the exchange was extraordinarily calm and confident. The men had known, on first viewing of the inferno, what they were stepping into. When Tim met his friend Terry Hatton, from Rescue 1, they had hugged, and kissed on the cheek, and Terry had said, “I love you, brother. It might be the last time I see you.”
The last time Tim saw Michael Lynch, the driver was towing his Hurst tool into the lobby with two other firemen. Tim then sprinted west along Liberty Street, as fast as he could, to the shelter of the pedestrian bridge at west and Liberty, in search of an EMS crew. There, he began assembling a team, to return with him to the South Tower lobby and help him to evacuate the growing number of burn victims he had seen gathering there, and falling from exhaustion. He would need fifteen minutes to pull a team in; but time was getting away from him. The clock had, by now, touched 9:50 A.M.
At 9:59:04, the upper thirty floors of the Tower snapped eastward, like the initial side-snap of an ax-felled tree. During the first second-and-a-half, it’s horizontal velocity reached thirty-five miles (49 kilometers) per hour; but three seconds after that, its vertical velocity was nearing 120 miles (197 kilometers) per hour, quickly exceeding all horizontal momentum, so that the structure seemed simply to implode. Gathering mass and strength as it compressed earthward, the precursor wave passed through the Ladder 4 crew in a chip of time measurable only in hundredths of seconds. The rescuers might have heard its approach, but they had ceased to exist before their nerve endings could begin to feel the wave, much less to actually transmit any sensations from it. An alarming roar, a burst of pressurized air, a surge of adrenaline – and, then, instantaneous non-existence.
Keep it up, mooselimbs.
Remember, Americans are vastly armed and getting more pissed by the minute.
NOBODY CARES about being called “mean spirited” or “Islamaphobic”...
It’s PAST time for YOU to be “Americanphobic”....’cause you have reason to be....
Cry me a river.
God bless your cousin and all the rescuers who
were involved that day.
My B-I-L and many aquaintences
were also murdered on 9/11.
This fight against the Ground Zero mosque has
become a general outcry of
“NO YOU DON’T” across America.
We’ve seen what’s happened
in Europe, and we do not want these
pigs in our backyard anymore.
I have no respect and little tolerance for
ANY of these ‘people’ who subscribe to this
‘religion’ of islam.
I am as rude as I can be to those I see in public,
and I would spit on any of them I see worshipping
their ‘god’ allah, who is Satan himself.
‘Moderates’.... hah! Screw them all, and
I pray for those who are misguided and
need a good dose of the Holy Spirit to
change their minds.
They've learned well from the Democrats by trying to turn the conversation around and claiming the moral high ground. Of course, they've also learned from the Democrats the art of advocating a losing argument.
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