Comments on: Guest Column: Should a mosque be built near the World Trade Center? http://rockrivertimes.com/2010/09/08/guest-column-should-a-mosque-be-built-near-the-world-trade-center/ The Rock River Times - THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1993 Thu, 23 May 2013 21:13:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Valere http://rockrivertimes.com/2010/09/08/guest-column-should-a-mosque-be-built-near-the-world-trade-center/comment-page-1/#comment-1202 Valere Sun, 12 Sep 2010 05:39:15 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=26383#comment-1202 Well if I look at the statement that has passed through my years of life I would have to say that in today's society you are guilty by association. In the case of 9-11 I still feel that IF the muslims plan on putting it at, near, around or even on top of the WTC then they are just asking to be guilty by association. They stand offended that we Americans hold grudges and act the bigot but yet here I see NO sympathy to the situation. So please let them put it up so I can sit back and watch in the news how their sanctum get blown up too. If they think for two seconds that they are safe praying in that building on a day to day basis then sadly they are blinded by the polite faces that talk to them during the day and hate them behind doors. As far as I can see we have accepted the muslims that they are all not the same as the people of whom are said to be the culprits of 9-11. I think they need to take that into consideration and not build this thing right now. We are all not mentally or emotionally over this and they all really need to come to terms that it is going to take a long time for people to look the other way. There are families out there that still to this day will not have any closure to the deaths of their loved ones. Their constant reminder of WTC in their everyday lives shows them what they lost and will never know what truly happened to them. That in its self should have made the muslims turn this project down! And just for a bit of clarification I myself highly doubt that their sole intent is for community "dialog and understanding" I am thinking more along the lines of rubbing our nose it. I would just LOVE to witness a Christian walk into a mosque and at any one point and time feel comfortable! Well if I look at the statement that has passed through my years of life I would have to say that in today’s society you are guilty by association. In the case of 9-11 I still feel that IF the muslims plan on putting it at, near, around or even on top of the WTC then they are just asking to be guilty by association. They stand offended that we Americans hold grudges and act the bigot but yet here I see NO sympathy to the situation. So please let them put it up so I can sit back and watch in the news how their sanctum get blown up too. If they think for two seconds that they are safe praying in that building on a day to day basis then sadly they are blinded by the polite faces that talk to them during the day and hate them behind doors.

As far as I can see we have accepted the muslims that they are all not the same as the people of whom are said to be the culprits of 9-11. I think they need to take that into consideration and not build this thing right now. We are all not mentally or emotionally over this and they all really need to come to terms that it is going to take a long time for people to look the other way. There are families out there that still to this day will not have any closure to the deaths of their loved ones. Their constant reminder of WTC in their everyday lives shows them what they lost and will never know what truly happened to them. That in its self should have made the muslims turn this project down!

And just for a bit of clarification I myself highly doubt that their sole intent is for community “dialog and understanding” I am thinking more along the lines of rubbing our nose it. I would just LOVE to witness a Christian walk into a mosque and at any one point and time feel comfortable!

]]> By: jason ssg http://rockrivertimes.com/2010/09/08/guest-column-should-a-mosque-be-built-near-the-world-trade-center/comment-page-1/#comment-1187 jason ssg Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:34:16 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=26383#comment-1187 First off- if we want to go for a factual understanding, it helps if the conversation about the "Ground Zero Mosque" at some point touches on the fact that it's not a mosque. You did manage to say "near" instead of "at" as most detractors phrase it, but you stopped correcting there. The proposal to create an interfaith community center is a good one- every town should have a few. My experience in Rockford is that much of the interfaith community here seems to center around the U.U. Church. There should be more meeting places of the kind where people of differing faiths, and those from outside of faith communities, could feel comfortable sharing ideas and coming together. Other than that, I don't know if it's good etiquette to post a link to another website in a comment, but I think The Onion sums up most folks grasp of the subject nicely in their article from August 30th- "Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims" First off- if we want to go for a factual understanding, it helps if the conversation about the “Ground Zero Mosque” at some point touches on the fact that it’s not a mosque. You did manage to say “near” instead of “at” as most detractors phrase it, but you stopped correcting there.

The proposal to create an interfaith community center is a good one- every town should have a few. My experience in Rockford is that much of the interfaith community here seems to center around the U.U. Church. There should be more meeting places of the kind where people of differing faiths, and those from outside of faith communities, could feel comfortable sharing ideas and coming together.

Other than that, I don’t know if it’s good etiquette to post a link to another website in a comment, but I think The Onion sums up most folks grasp of the subject nicely in their article from August 30th- “Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims”

]]>