Islamic group gets go-ahead to cut crosses off NY church

AP via FoxNews ^ | April 3, 2014

[Altenkrug]

SYRACUSE, N.Y.

[Altenkrug]

Somebody tell me what’s going down? Christian crosses chopped off churches in a country founded by Christians who then gave it prosperity and repect. Islam is gaining ground and spreading throughout the country at a fast pace. Is that what Barak Hussein and his Saudi buddies mean by "religious freedom"?

[DonaldC]

I would have to side with the muslims here. It is their property to do with what they want.

[GraceG]

build a six-foot chain-link fence.

Wow, what an open and tolerant religion, no wonder the libs love them so much...

[I want the USA back]

I’ll bet they’re real happy to do that.

[headstamp 2]

This is a mark of conquest, nothing less.

[MeganC]

I would have to side with the muslims here. It is their property to do with what they want.

I hate to agree, but yeah.

[Jacquerie]

To young freepers,

You better do something about muzzies.

My generation hasn't done, and won't do, a thing.

[Lx]

Maybe if those 200 really cared they would have bought the property. Owners gets to do what they want for at least a little while until some neighborhood nazi group gets power.

[ClearBlueSky]

I hope lightning strikes them down when they do it- or let’em fall and become wet spots on the cement.

[Argus]

Not if those crosses were rest stops for an endangered species of migratory meadowlarks.

[Altenkrug]

O.K. You go to Riyadh buy a plot of land and start building a Christian church, a synagogue or a Buddhist pagoda. I’ll see what becomes of you...

[DonaldC]

This isn’t Riyadh and we’re talking about what was basically an abandoned building.

[Altenkrug]

Is it possible to compare financial resources of the local residents with those the muzzies get from their sponsors from abroad?

[SkyDancer]

G-d does not live in houses built by man. The church are the people not the building. I’ve seen former buildings used as churches turned into bars, restaurants, used clothing stores and then the reverse. Failed supermarkets turned into churches. The Triune G-d lives within us, not in some building.

[2harddrive]

The chain-link fence is probably part of their fortification efforts, prior to turning the mosque into a forward base for terror operations.

[freerepublicchat]

Something is wrong with Christianity or the current conception of it.

I don't know what is wrong, but this sort of thing seems like a repeat from the 7th or 8th century when Islam ran over Christians in the middle east.

The growth of Islam is a certain danger to a free society.

[bert]

Get real.... the church is not a church, just a building. The congregation is gone.

[al_c]

Isn’t this practice symbolic of a victory over the infidel in the eyes of muslims, or does that only have to do with building a new mosque on conquered ground?

[bert]

Why was the church deserted?...... it failed. The congregation is elsewhere.

There is no conquest.

[BenLurkin]

Sure would be a shame if the old place burned to the ground.