I'm not sure if this news, dated May 7, 2010 , caught anyone's attention:
Mosque to go up near New York's ground zero. Below are just some portions of the whole news article.
Plans to build a mosque two blocks away from ground zero have set off an emotional debate among area residents and relatives of victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
The project is a collaboration between the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative, both of which work to improve relations with followers of the religion. The two groups presented their vision to part of the Community Board of lower Manhattan on Wednesday night. Ro Sheffe, a board member who attended the meeting, said the
project did not need to get the board's approval. "They own the land, and their plans don't have any zoning changes," Sheffe said. "They came to us for our opinions and to let us know their plans. It was purely voluntary on their part."
"[The 9/11 terrorists] did this in the name of Islam," Zelman said. "It's a sacred ground where these people died, where my brother was murdered, and to be in the shadows of that religion, it's just hypocritical and sacrilegious. "
I don't know about you guys. Near Ground Zero? They don't even allow churches or temples of other religions to be built in Saudi Arabia. Talk about hypocrisy. Now, the very religion that inspired 9/11 is going to have its own place of worship just a few yards from the grounds where its victims perished. The very symbolism of such a structure near Ground Zero is like allowing the victims' graves to be spat on by its perpetrators.
Guess what organization is behind this scheme? The Cordoba Initiative. And the building is to be called "Cordoba House". Cordoba, as you know, is a city in Andalusia, Southern Spain, where Muslims built their first great mosque as a symbol of their conquest of Spain. If you haven't gotten the symbolism of such project, let me explain further. Building mosques on conquered sacred grounds is standard practice in Islam. It's what Islam does to assert its supremacy. That, I think, is what's happening here. It's going to be interesting to follow how this development unfolds in the coming months.
Mosque to be built near Ground Zero
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