Samp1's Waterfall
Like I stated before in my quote on the Quran. Islam is a religion that preaches peace, not one that harbours extremists and radicals. Can you please show me a source where a mosque has harboured terrorists in New York. I have never seen that happen before. Also we are not talking about what the Turkish are doing, we are talking about the community center in New York. We wouldn't want to infringe on the sovereignty of Turkey, we are talking about America.
This poll was taken by our fellow students/teachers of DAA and their opinions are valued. Some of them in-fact were American, and believe the mosque should be built. Everyone's opinion should be valued, not just some...
(this argument is not a clarification it's a dispute, that was a miss click)
Park51 calls back to the democracy, where people in the First Amendment are allowed by any cause to practice their religion freely, peacefully, and safely. It is the muslim communities right to build a mosque wherever they please. Islam is all about peace as stated in this verse. Many people believe that the mosque should be built such as Obama and Michael Bloomberg. The building is not just going to be a mosque, it is a community center that accepts other faiths to bring people together. The community center also has a 9/11 memorial, and the muslim community as a whole denounces the attacks and claims them ‘unislamic.’
“It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the Prophets, and spends his money for love of Him, on the kindred and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and those who ask for charity, and for ransoming the captives; and who observes Prayer and pays the Zakat; and those who fulfill their promise when they have made one, and the patient in poverty and afflictions and the steadfast in time of war; it is these who have proved truthful and it is these who are the God-fearing.” (Al Quran 2:178)
http://www.aadilmalik.com/2011/11/
A survey was taken asking the students (students were of mixed races/ethnicities) in Dubai American Academy if the students believe a community consisting of a mosque should be built two blocks away from the 9/11 attack site. From the final results, the data collected states that 80% of the students believe that muslims should have the right to build a community two blocks away from the 9/11 site and 30% believe otherwise.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/
Many Muslims and even Non-Muslim supporters of the construction state that the main reason of the construction is for peace and ways to strengthen the relation between the Muslims and Non-Muslims of the United States. Islam is a religion that preaches peace. It is their right to build wherever they please.
“Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. And 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.”
-Barack Obama
“Let us not forget that Muslims were among those murdered on 9/11, and that our Muslim neighbours grieved with us as New Yorkers and as Americans. We would betray our values and play into our enemies’ hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that."
- Michael Bloomberg
-The Muslim community center is a major economic investment that will pump over $100 million in infrastructure into lower Manhattan and will create as many as 150 full-time and 500 part-time jobs in an area that desperately needs it
- Muslims have the same right to build a house of worship in Lower Manhattan and to pray for the victims of 9/11 as any other group. Approximately 60 Muslims were murdered in the 9/11 attacks.
- The Park51 project allows Muslims to remind Americans that the destruction that struck the Twin Towers does not represent Islam. Al-Qaeda was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, not Islam. As filmmaker Michael Moore posted on his blog, "Blaming a whole group for the actions of just one of that group is anti-American. Timothy McVeigh was Catholic. Should Oklahoma City prohibit the building of a Catholic Church near the site of the former federal building that McVeigh blew up?"
A relative of a victim Charles Wolf stated that:
"Denying them the ability to build a mosque… would be like London denying the Roman Catholic Church the opportunity to build a church during the years of the IRA bombings." Quoted by a relative of a victim of the 9/11 attacks.
President Obama stated that the muslims community have the right to build their mosque wherever they please.
"As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practise their religion as everyone else in this country.
"That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community centre on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances.
"This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable."
Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/newsandpolitics/framegame/2010/08/islamisgroundzero.html
Islam is a religion that preaches peace. The Imam of a torched mosque in Houston, Texas has responded to the islamophobia with love. If muslims are this peaceful, then why would they not be allowed to build a mosque next to the 9/11 attacks. Muslims died in the extremist attack on 9/11, and the American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC) have denounced the 9/11 attacks and called it the action “un-islamic”. The AMPCC statement read, "American Muslims utterly condemn what are apparently vicious and cowardly acts of terrorism against innocent civilians. We join with all Americans in calling for the swift apprehension and punishment of the perpetrators. No political cause could ever be assisted by such immoral acts."
http://www.islamicity.com/articles/
