Posted on 08/18/2010 4:10:10 PM PDT by jackspyder
WASHINGTON – While Americans are bitterly debating the proposed building of a mosque near New York's ground zero, Muslims have been praying for years less than 80 feet from where another hijacked jetliner struck.
The Pentagon chapel is part of a memorial to the 184 people killed in 2001 when hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 flew into the west side of the Pentagon and plowed through three of the building's five office rings.
As part of its massive renovation, the Pentagon opened the nondenominational chapel in November 2002. The chapel hosts a daily prayer group and weekly worship service for Muslims and provides similar services for Jews, Hindus, Mormons, Protestants, Catholics and Episcopalians.
Pentagon officials say that no one in the military or the families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has ever protested...
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Are you against Muslims?
A military chapel is not a mosque...
A mosque is an organized body of people with leaders. A prayer chapel is a room.
Please try again.
First observation is that the Pentagon chapel, despite its proximity to the Pentagon damage inflicted by Muslims, isn’t exclusive enough to foment jihadism. Second is: why has no one suggested (successfully) exactly the same kind of nondenominational “chapel” for Ground Zero, funded entirely by the at-fault Muslim religion?
why do you ask?
Show me a nondenominational mosque.
- - and guess what they are praying for ?
small hint! It ain’t peace and understanding.
Well, you posted a liberal canard article which implies you would deny patriotic Muslims a prayer room in the Pentagon.
This is the Pentagon, not Ft. Hood. I don’t think anyone is going to get away with being up to no good.
The Pentagon’s still there, the WTC is not. If the Pentagon had been obliterated, and instead of re-building it, the feds allowed a group of Muslims to replace it with a mosque, there might be an analogy to the NYC situation. As it is, there isn’t one.
you assume too much ... but I don’t know what I would do given that kind of power and responsibility
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