Muslim leaders to abandon plans for Ground Zero community center

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Insiders say Muslim spiritual leaders behind the controversial initiative are considering giving up on the former World Trade Center location, in a gesture of appeasement.
By Shlomo Shamir Tags: Israel news

After weeks of heated debate over plans for an Islamic community center near Ground Zero - the site of the 9/11 attacks on New York - it seems Muslim leaders will soon back down, agreeing to move to a new site.

The decision follows a high-profile campaign against the project that included advertisements on New York buses showing images of the burning Twin Towers, an iconic landmark razed when al-Qaida terrorists flew packed passenger planes into them in 2001. The New York Republican party is also said to be planning a hostile television campaign.

Sources in New York said on Monday that Muslim religious and business leaders will announce plans to abandon the project in the next few days.

New York Governor David Patterson said last weekend that Muslim leaders had rejected outright his proposal tto swap the site in for another in Manhattan.

But several people familiar with the debate among New York's Islamic activists now claim that the leaders are convinced abandoning the site is preferable to unleashing a wave of bitterness towards Muslims.

They also hope the move will be seen as a show of sensitivity to families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, and to the American public generally.

Another factor in the apparent climbdown is a lack of funds to pay for construction of the center, estimated to cost a hundred million dollars. Backers hope moving it will lead to a wave of support, accompanied by cash donations.

It is also possible that the decision was also influenced by comments made by U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday, in which he appeared to reverse an earlier show of support.

Obama said that when he went on record backing the center, he meant only that it was the right of every religious group to establish its own places of worship – but he did not intend to justify building the center specifically at Ground Zero .
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This is a good descision. I do think it would have been a slap in the face if they built the centre there. How would they feel if Christians bombed the dome on the rock and then built a cathedral there? I am not religious, but this would have been a insult to the people that died on 9/11....even though the majority of muslims aint suicidal bombers...the attacts was religiously motivated and therefore this move was a big no no. I cant believe they actually considered it. Lekker dom move.
 
So what they have managed to do is find a way to do nothing and give up on nothing, and claim to be being sensitive at the same time. Very sneaky indeed!
 
How magnanimous of them. :rolleyes:
 
ocleroux said:
This is a good descision. I do think it would have been a slap in the face if they built the centre there. How would they feel if Christians bombed the dome on the rock and then built a cathedral there? I am not religious, but this would have been a insult to the people that died on 9/11....even though the majority of muslims aint suicidal bombers...the attacts was religiously motivated and therefore this move was a big no no. I cant believe they actually considered it. Lekker dom move.
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I agree that it's probably a good idea to let this go. However it means those islamophobes who think Muslim=Terrorist win and their prejudices live on.
 
R13... said:
However it means those islamophobes who think Muslim=Terrorist win and their prejudices live on.
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Or they could have taken the stance of "So you guys fly a plane into one of our landmarks, bring it to its knees and then erect your place of worship out of its ashes???? WTF???" and created even bigger hate.

Leave ground zero neautral out of respect for all. At the end of the day, USA is not a Islamic country. The majority is Christian and the Muslims must respect that. 9/11 is a wound that will most likely never heal....so dont go scratching the scab and try and draw more blood out of it. Let the wound close up and let it leave its mark.....and move on.
 
Will be a smart and laudable move on the part of the Muslims to do this. To have pushed ahead with it would have only created unnecessary friction.
 
ocleroux said:
This is a good descision. I do think it would have been a slap in the face if they built the centre there. How would they feel if Christians bombed the dome on the rock and then built a cathedral there? I am not religious, but this would have been a insult to the people that died on 9/11....even though the majority of muslims aint suicidal bombers...the attacts was religiously motivated and therefore this move was a big no no. I cant believe they actually considered it. Lekker dom move.
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Sort of like Christians killing a whole lot of Jews and then building a church next to Auschwitz? Oh, wait, they did that. :erm:

Are there any churches within a couple of blocks of the Oklahoma bombing?

Nice way to tar an entire religion with the sins of a few people.
 
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In fairness, we've been building 'ground zeros' near Iraqi mosques since March 2003.
 
Claymore said:
Sort of like Christians killing a whole lot of Jews and then building a church next to Auschwitz? Oh, wait, they did that. :erm:
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That is not how I meant it...I am refering to this case, not the holocaust. In this particular case, and with 9/11 being on the scale that it was and being still so fresh...I just dont think this is a good idea. I am not religious...so I am not biased, or at least I think im not. I just think this would be looking for sh * t.

rorz0r said:
Is this because of the gay bar thing?
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huh?
 
I'm glad they made this decision. It displays a sensitivity which is more likely to lead to tolerance and mutual respect. The world needs more people to make the right decisions like this.
 
I don't believe they intended to build the mosque there in the first place. All this is to rake in sympathy when they do obviously abandon the idea.

The bigger problem is that whether the mosque is allowed to be built there or not, both scenarios are just more fuel for Islamic extremism, confirming an us vs them to Muslims around the world. I wonder if they thought that far ahead?
 
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Why is it called the ground zero mosque? it's 2 blocks away from ground zero, once again just like the BS about Iraq WMDs the media chose to willfully lie.
 
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