The facts:
-There is a mosque being built in downtown Manhattan a couplde of blocks from where the Twin Towers stood before the 9/11 attack.
-Many people believe that this is a sensitive choice to build the mosque there as it would associate negative thoughts and feelings to the families and victims of the attack.
-President Obama supports the project
The way I see it, the only way you could feel that it is wrong to build the mosque there is if you have the discriminatory ideology that muslims as a whole are to blame for the 9/11 attack. The fact of the matter is just because the people involved in the the attacks happened to be muslim doesn't mean all people of the Islamic religion are corrupt nor that all muslims are terrorists. Which unfortunately a lot of people think that way. why do you say? because of IGNORANCE!
I mean if this is how people want to go about things then I guess we shouldn't have a church near all those places where any christians committed serious crimes in our nation right?
I mean come on people! The reasons behind opposing this project are absolutely ridiculous.
Do you guys know there is already a mosque 4 blocks from the world trade center that has been operationg for over a year. I never heard any controversy about that, so what I think is now that its election season politicians wanna get people all rowdy so they can get publicity and try to polarize people so they can get some votes!
In a recent interview Pres. Obama stated, "Let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country," "That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable."
By the way for anyone who didn't know the Arabic word 'Islam' simply means 'submission', and derives from a word meaning 'peace'.
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