Now, there's been a lot of threads about this on HF and some other forums, a lot of news articles, but I read one for Religion that I most paid attention to, so I'll post it here and give some important information.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/opinion/08mosque.html
Some important things to look at:
We have all been awed by how inflamed and emotional the issue of the proposed community center has become.
There shouldn't be issues about a community center attempting to bring in peace between multinations and multireligions.
We are proceeding with the community center, Cordoba House. More important, we are doing so with the support of the downtown community, government at all levels and leaders from across the religious spectrum, who will be our partners. I am convinced that it is the right thing to do for many reasons.
You know it's going to come, why talk bad about it over and over? It's not like their going to go there then blow themselves up.
Our broader mission — to strengthen relations between the Western and Muslim worlds and to help counter radical ideology — lies not in skirting the margins of issues that have polarized relations within the Muslim world and between non-Muslims and Muslims. It lies in confronting them as a joint multifaith, multinational effort.
You know why.
the ability of anti-American radicals to recruit young, impressionable Muslims by falsely claiming that America persecutes Muslims for their faith. These efforts by radicals at distortion endanger our national security and the personal security of Americans worldwide. This is why Americans must not back away from completion of this project. If we do, we cede the discourse and, essentially, our future to radicals on both sides. The paradigm of a clash between the West and the Muslim world will continue, as it has in recent decades at terrible cost. It is a paradigm we must shift.
The ANTI-AMERICAN RADICALS RECRUIT YOUNG AND CLAIM THAT AMERICA PERSECUTES MUSLIMS FOR THEIR FAITH
Is that falsely accusing, or is it true? Last I checked half of the people I know over the internet believe that they shouldn't be trusted and the plan should fall through and not be built. What would happen if it didn't because of that? Well it'd look like absolute bigotrism towards Muslims and the Middle East, then we'd look like a bunch of douchebags (who-ever lives in the USA), and it'd break out in warfare more than now, with even more radicals.
/discuss
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/opinion/08mosque.html
Some important things to look at:
We have all been awed by how inflamed and emotional the issue of the proposed community center has become.
There shouldn't be issues about a community center attempting to bring in peace between multinations and multireligions.
We are proceeding with the community center, Cordoba House. More important, we are doing so with the support of the downtown community, government at all levels and leaders from across the religious spectrum, who will be our partners. I am convinced that it is the right thing to do for many reasons.
You know it's going to come, why talk bad about it over and over? It's not like their going to go there then blow themselves up.
Our broader mission — to strengthen relations between the Western and Muslim worlds and to help counter radical ideology — lies not in skirting the margins of issues that have polarized relations within the Muslim world and between non-Muslims and Muslims. It lies in confronting them as a joint multifaith, multinational effort.
You know why.
the ability of anti-American radicals to recruit young, impressionable Muslims by falsely claiming that America persecutes Muslims for their faith. These efforts by radicals at distortion endanger our national security and the personal security of Americans worldwide. This is why Americans must not back away from completion of this project. If we do, we cede the discourse and, essentially, our future to radicals on both sides. The paradigm of a clash between the West and the Muslim world will continue, as it has in recent decades at terrible cost. It is a paradigm we must shift.
The ANTI-AMERICAN RADICALS RECRUIT YOUNG AND CLAIM THAT AMERICA PERSECUTES MUSLIMS FOR THEIR FAITH
Is that falsely accusing, or is it true? Last I checked half of the people I know over the internet believe that they shouldn't be trusted and the plan should fall through and not be built. What would happen if it didn't because of that? Well it'd look like absolute bigotrism towards Muslims and the Middle East, then we'd look like a bunch of douchebags (who-ever lives in the USA), and it'd break out in warfare more than now, with even more radicals.
/discuss