Rising Hegemon
Sometime in 1999, a construction electrician received a new work assignment from his union. The man, Sinclair Hejazi Abdus-Salaam, was told to report to 2 World Trade Center, the southern of the twin towers...
Over the next few days, noticing some fellow Muslims on the job, Mr. Abdus-Salaam voiced an equally essential question: “So where do you pray at?” And so he learned about the Muslim prayer room on the 17th floor of the south tower.
He went there regularly in the months to come, first doing the ablution known as wudu in a washroom fitted for cleansing hands, face and feet, and then facing toward Mecca to intone the salat prayer.
On any given day, Mr. Abdus-Salaam’s companions in the prayer room might include financial analysts, carpenters, receptionists, secretaries and ironworkers. There were American natives, immigrants who had earned citizenship, visitors conducting international business — the whole Muslim spectrum of nationality and race.
And in further items never to be googled by Gretchen Carlson:
Moreover, the prayer room was not the only example of Muslim religious practice in or near the trade center. About three dozen Muslim staff members of Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the north tower, used a stairwell between the 106th and 107th floors for their daily prayers.
How many of those staff members died on 9/11 only to have the likes of Pam Geller piss on their memories?
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They died on Sept. 11th? Piss on 'em.
Dear leader says it's OK to hate them too: "..it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families" - Glenn Beck.
And thus we continue the adolescent tantrums about mosques and Muslims. Let us establish some parity in our arguments. A group of westernized, educated, professional Saudi's some twenty or so supported by a few hundred operatives and believing friends in the name of Allah, funded by the spoiled, disgruntled son of a noble Saudi contracter, fly heavy jets flush with fuel into the grand economic and military symbols of The Great Satan and we are told they are a small group of misguided fanatics who have stolen the mantel of Islam the great fountain of world peace. I declare on behalf of the United States, another great fountain of world peace, that the troops, tanks, bombs and rockets that attack the innocent Muslims in a couple of countries are lead by generals who are a small group of misguided fanatics who have stolen the honor of the peaceful teachings of a great nation. How is one different from the other?
Back to NYC. What authority decreed that ground zero was limited by the boundaries of the WTC. I state that ground zero was any piece of land where heavy debris impacted following the attack and the collapse of the towers. This makes the building a part of ground zero. Setting aside the term "sacred" and the ironic connection with religion, this event was tragic and tramatic to the very fabric of US society. It seems reasonable to respect this. The use of the term mosque is somewhat misleading. The architectural images show a Grand Temple in honor to Islam shining brilliantly on the ruins of the attack by misguided fanatics who have betrayed the teaching of Islam. Could it be considered insensitive and somewhat rude to discount the grief this causes many people?
Funny how I do not remember any ballyhoo about no funadmentalist churches within a mile of the Murrah Office building.
the MEdia hates democracy.
Dear leader says it's OK to hate them too: "..it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families" - Glenn Beck.
Now that he's become God's voice on earth I wonder if this carries more weight.
somebody commented on michael moore's piece that actually rebuilding a mosque at ground zero would be part of the healing process that honors restoring what was there before.
i thought this a pretty powerful statement too:
Gen. Colin Powell, former Secretary of State, agrees that the Islamic Center should not be moved from its proposed location. During an appearance on talk show "The View," Powell reminded the public that on 9/11 terrorists also struck the Pentagon. Nonetheless, there's a place of prayer Muslims there. "We weren't having these prayer places in the Pentagon and in Walter Reed (military hospital) for extremists," he said. "They're for Americans. American soldiers and American people who work in the Pentagon and in Walter Reed. And so the center that is being proposed for here in New York City is a center that will attract Americans-of all faiths."
Funny how I do not remember any ballyhoo about no funadmentalist churches within a mile of the Murrah Office building.
That's because McVeigh and the other shit pumps didn't have any religious motivation for perpetrating the Oklahoma bombing. These terrorist scum were anti-establishment, anti-law enforcement pure and simple.
The Turner Diaries were supposedly a motivation for the bombing, but then that's much closer to nazism and therefore marxism than anything to do with Christian or other religious fundamentalism.
"These terrorist scum were anti-establishment, anti-law enforcement pure and simple.
The Turner Diaries were supposedly a motivation for the bombing, but then that's much closer to nazism and therefore marxism..."
Whaaaaaat? Ona must be off its meds again.
To one of the above commenters:
"Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." Plato
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