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“Asra Nomani on Ground Zero Mosque Opponents: “their fears are legitimate””
by IPT News • Aug 13, 2010 at 12:58 pm
SNIPPET: “As the debate rages on over the planned Islamic cultural center near ground zero, most American Muslim groups have come out to vocally support the project. But there are those, even in the Muslim community, who are concerned with having a mosque so close to the site of the worst terrorist attack on American soil. One such woman is Asra Q. Nomani, who took to the pages of The Daily Beast to explain why she was uncomfortable with the planned Cordoba Project.
Writing about a trip she recently took with her son to visit Ground Zero, Nomani recalls how on the way home they passed by two locations—the place where the planned Cordoba House will sit and the Masjid Manhattan, “known in the Muslim community as the ‘Salafi mosque.” And, as Nomani explains, while the leaders of these organizations would say they speak for Islam, “the worlds represented by these two mosques could not be further apart.”
The problem Nomani says, is an unwillingness to recognize and denounce radicalism:
“In the name of political correctness, too many inside our Muslim community have been apologists for Islam, feeling defensive, but not being as brutally honest as the world needs us to be about the problem.”
And that, according to Nomani, makes the concerns of New Yorker’s understandable.”
Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/08/asra-nomani-on-ground-zero-mosque-opponents-their
413 posted on August 14, 2010 3:19:12 PM PDT by Cindy
Masjid Manhattan? A Salafi mosque? Salafists are the worst of the bomb-throwers. Osama Bin Laden is a Salafist, iirc.
They have a Salafist mosque in Manhattan that hasn't been cleaned out by the FBI??
The one in Finsbury Park in London is the one where Scotland Yard took 600 pounds of ricin away from imam Abu 'Orrible .... Dr. Hook with the eyepatch .... he said they had a rat problem, so of course they accumulated enough ricin to kill every rat in Europe 42 times.
As our British friends would say, "Right, then. Come along, please, there's a nice gentleman."