It's not even a "mosque", it's a community center. Paranoia runs deep...[quote]New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission denied landmark status ..."/>
Sign Up | Log In
REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS
Panel denies landmark status for Islamic center and mosque site near ground zero
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 8:53 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission denied landmark status Tuesday for a building at the site of a proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero. The commissioners voted unanimously against landmark status for 45-47 Park Place. It and an adjoining building are owned by real estate developer Soho Properties, which intends to build an Islamic center two blocks north of the former site of the World Trade Center. While the public vote was the focus of much debate about the planned Islamic center and mosque, the commission could not have prevented the developers from building such a community center. The commission, by designating the building a landmark, could only have prevented Soho Properties from demolishing the building or significantly altering its exterior. There is a prayer site in the building currently, so Muslims are peacefully praying in the building already. "We will continue going forward with the project. It's a project that will build bridges," said Oz Sultan, spokesman for the Cordoba Initiative, the organization behind the planned center. It says the group is "committed to promoting positive interaction between the Muslim world and the West." Opponents, including former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, have argued against a mosque being so close to the scene of the nation's worst terrorist attack.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 9:06 AM
WULFENSTAR
http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 9:13 AM
Quote:Not saying that its the same thing
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 9:19 AM
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 9:22 AM
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 9:43 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Originally posted by Wulfenstar: Well, then by your logic Nix... they should have a neo-Nazi meeting hall right next door to Auschwitz? Not saying that its the same thing, but in the minds of a lot of people it is. Then again, Im all for the free market... if you've got the green, its all clean (just call me IceWulf heheh). But whatever.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:22 AM
YOUR OPTIONS
NEW POSTS TODAY
OTHER TOPICS
FFF.NET SOCIAL