The Ground Zero mosque must be built

[jcheckers]

I'm a baby? I've got two babies i'll lay on your chin and feed you if you want scumbag.

[husker]

Although the mosque has been getting most of the attention, their is an underlying ripple to this story that has not been touched by the mainstream, and that is the fac that a Greek Orthodox Church (which had been in place since 1922) destroyed on 9/11, still has not been able to get the ok to REBUILD their church. Once again, they already had a church near the ground zero sight, it was destroyed during 9/11, and the city of New York will not give them permits to rebuild, nor a location to do so.





http://www.greekboston.com/wordpress...e-ground-zero/



Greek Orthodox Church or Mosque: Ground Zero



By WWG ⋅ August 6, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment


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On September 11, 2001, over 3,000 Americans were taken from us by the evil acts of Islamic extremists bent on destroying our freedoms. Amid the thick smoke and choking ashes of that fateful day, the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was reduced to dust.

Since 1922, St. Nicholas Church had stood as a quiet sanctuary of prayer and reflection amidst the tumultuous and bustling crossroads of commerce. For the past nine years the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey has used bureaucratic obstacles and false promises to hinder the rebuilding of the St. Nicholas Church.



This must end and it must end now!

What an outrage that our government has put roadblocks in the path of its own citizens trying to rebuild their beloved church destroyed by Islamic extremists, while Saudi Arabia, a nation that prohibits people from even wearing a cross or the Star of David, now provokes the families of those who lost loved ones by apparently funneling money to build a mosque at the same location.

As your congressman, I will always remember that our constitutional freedom of religion starts with respecting our own sacred Judeo-Christian heritage. Now is the time for the Port Authority to stop hiding behind its bureaucracy and to facilitate the rebuilding of the St. Nicholas Church that was taken from us on that quiet September morning nearly a decade ago. The former St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed when the World Trade Center fell on it.

George Demos is a Republican candidate for New York’s First Congressional District.

On a side note, people have been calling for prominent Greeks like George Stephanopoulos to put in their opinion on the subject. He actually is for the mosque and his reasons are in the video below:


Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday defended the building of a mosque near Ground Zero as a monument to tolerance. Talking to conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, he proclaimed, “This is a country founded on the notion of religious freedom. What better way to say they [the terrorists] haven’t won?”

Ingraham decried the plan for being so close to the site of 9/11 terrorist attack: “And I say the terrorists have won with the way this has gone down. 600 feet from where thousands of our fellow Americans were incinerated in the name of political Islam?”

This prompted the ABC co-host to chide, “In the name of militant, radical Islam, not in the name of Islam.”

there is a lot more to the story about this church going back 25-30 years than the current story. the entire block was going to be developed and i believe the developer bought all the properties except this church wouldn't sell even after being made very good offers for the land. i used to work down there (WORK? is vitturd really wrong again?) and it was i pretty big deal from what i remember. i am sure that is why the permits are being held up. they need to sell the land and move on. what's that saying, "you can't fight city hall"?

it's just another example of people using things in a way that fits their agenda but isn't the whole story. some things are hard to find the whole story about what's really going on.

[efaw23]

A Christian wouldn't have done it in the name of his God. I'll join Vols and get banned from this thread but you are the biggest fucking idiot I've listened to in a while. Fuck me

Because of a different opinion. Wow

[kbsooner21]

Because of a different opinion. Wow

I'm going to take a wild stab and say you are not an American born citizen