A TOTALLY OFF TOPIC NEWS BUT I HAD TO PUT IT HERE BECAUSE EVEN AFTER THOSE TERRORISTS ATTACKS PEOPLE ARE TRASH TALKING ABOUT AHMADI, QADIANI ETC!!! C'MON GUYZ GROW UP!!!!
ATLEAST LEARN FROM THIS!!!!!!!!!
Islamic centre, mosque approved near Ground Zero
Agence France-Presse May 26, 2010
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More Images » The leadership committee of Community Board no. 1 in lower Manhattan open their monthly meeting in front of a crowd May 25, 2010 in New York City. A proposal to build Cordoba House, an Islamic cultural center, is surrounded by controversy, and politicians and activists are preparing on both sides of the debate.Photograph by: Chris Hondros, Getty ImagesNEY YORK - A New York community board has resoundingly backed a controversial plan for an Islamic cultural centre and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero.
The non-binding vote by the Manhattan community board late Monday passed
29:1 with 10 abstentions in a strong endorsement of the planned project.
Supporters say the proposed Cordoba House will transform negative stereotypes about Islam prevalent in the city since the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Centre.
"We expected some opposition. I think we have reached a moment where certain things are starting to get flushed out. Certain emotions are coming to the surface. We have learned a lot from this," said Daisy Khan, who is part of the project.
"I'm actually glad this kind of debate is taking place," she said.
Opponents complain that a mosque so close to Ground Zero, where Islamist hijackers crashed two airliners into the Twin Towers, killing almost 3,000 people, is an insult to the memory of the dead.
But Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer said that "for anyone to imply that a mosque is not appropriate in New York . . . , that is just an un-American attitude."
"I'll do everything I can to make sure this mosque does get opened and people have the right to assemble there and practice their religion," he told the Daily News.
The proposed Islamic centre is to be built on the site of a former clothing shop and is planned to contain sports facilities and a theater, as well as the mosque.
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IF THESE PEOPLE(most) CAN TOLERATE THIS THAN WHY CANT WE!!???
ISLAM TEACHES TOLERENCE(sabr) BUT......