A year after Ground Zero Mosque controversy, the socallled " community center " turns

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/12/a-year-after-ground-zero-mosque-controversy-community-center-that-developers-insisted-was-not-a-mosq.html



"No community programs at ‘Ground Zero’ mosque a year after the controversy," by Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein in the New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/it_mosque_rade_E4bLtxvo3yIwrCnYm1fRLP), December 9:
It’s all pray and no play. The Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero that opened with great fanfare a year ago is now an empty space with no community programs.
And while the developers behind Park51 insisted for two years that the project was more than a mosque, it now appears to be just that. Dozens of worshipers gather at the site on Park Place Friday for prayer services — but that’s the only activity in the building.
Gone are the Arabic classes, workshops in calligraphy, talks on the genealogy of Muslims in America, film screenings and art exhibits. The sole community event is a class in capoeira — an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines dance and music. The teacher of the twice-weekly class said she has five students.
“We are the only cultural program that is still there,” said Luz Emma Canas Jesus, of Capoeira Mucurumim.
The Park51 Twitter feed was last updated in June, and its Web site lists no events. The Web site for the mosque, formally called Prayer Space, lists four services a day, and a handwritten note on the building’s window also advertises a 4 a.m. service.
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THIS IS HOW THEY DECEIVE FOLKS. AND PAY NO PRICE FOR SUCH DECEPTION.
THIS IS ISLAM AND ITS METHOD, DECEPTION..

Remember this is their method!! And fools fell for it , now they laugh because they won by deception.
STUPID, GULLIBLE INFIDELS! -TYR

[Gaffer]

^ It was only ever meant to be a symbol of islamic victory in the middle of the infidel lands.

[hjmick]

Well duh...

[avatar4321]

Let them worship as they please.

[jafar00]

You can't condemn it yet. Perhaps they haven't finished it yet? Perhaps they ran out of money or had investors or developers pull out because of the protests and legal hurdles they had to get over.

The fact that Muslims in the area have a place to pray off the street is the best thing about it.

[gabosaurus]

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[tailfins]

^ It was only ever meant to be a symbol of islamic victory in the middle of the infidel lands.

I won't go that far, but it sure looks like it. If the Muslims want to build good will, they should recognize the reminder the Mosque would become and show some consideration.

[DragonStryk72]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/12/a-year-after-ground-zero-mosque-controversy-community-center-that-developers-insisted-was-not-a-mosq.html



"No community programs at ‘Ground Zero’ mosque a year after the controversy," by Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein in the New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/it_mosque_rade_E4bLtxvo3yIwrCnYm1fRLP), December 9:
It’s all pray and no play. The Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero that opened with great fanfare a year ago is now an empty space with no community programs.
And while the developers behind Park51 insisted for two years that the project was more than a mosque, it now appears to be just that. Dozens of worshipers gather at the site on Park Place Friday for prayer services — but that’s the only activity in the building.
Gone are the Arabic classes, workshops in calligraphy, talks on the genealogy of Muslims in America, film screenings and art exhibits. The sole community event is a class in capoeira — an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines dance and music. The teacher of the twice-weekly class said she has five students.
“We are the only cultural program that is still there,” said Luz Emma Canas Jesus, of Capoeira Mucurumim.
The Park51 Twitter feed was last updated in June, and its Web site lists no events. The Web site for the mosque, formally called Prayer Space, lists four services a day, and a handwritten note on the building’s window also advertises a 4 a.m. service.
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THIS IS HOW THEY DECEIVE FOLKS. AND PAY NO PRICE FOR SUCH DECEPTION.
THIS IS ISLAM AND ITS METHOD, DECEPTION..

Remember this is their method!! And fools fell for it , now they laugh because they won by deception.
STUPID, GULLIBLE INFIDELS! -TYR



Um, this isn't the tactic of "Islam", it's the tactic of every bullshit artist since the dawn of the spoken word.

[DragonStryk72]

You can't condemn it yet. Perhaps they haven't finished it yet? Perhaps they ran out of money or had investors or developers pull out because of the protests and legal hurdles they had to get over.

The fact that Muslims in the area have a place to pray off the street is the best thing about it.

No, that's not really an issue in NYC. There are large numbers of Muslims there, and given the central location, they almost have to go by there (There's a hub for the PATH train between Jersey City and the NYC Subway, plus the remaining Trade Centers in that precise area), so traffic isn't an issue. Even failing that, as community center, they are eligible for grants for community programs as long as they're not strictly religious.

That stuff aside, I don't really have an issue with a Mosque there if they were reaching out to the community, but that's not what they're doing. The whole point of building the Mosque was to help heal the wounds caused by 9/11, and these sorts of shenanigans are doing exactly the opposite. They should not be defended for that sort of behavior.

I am not saying that all Muslims are bad, or anything of the sort. The folks, however, lied to the people at large, and that is just going to widen the gap, not close it.

[fj1200]

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THIS IS HOW THEY DECEIVE FOLKS. AND PAY NO PRICE FOR SUCH DECEPTION.
THIS IS ISLAM AND ITS METHOD, DECEPTION..

Remember this is their method!! And fools fell for it , now they laugh because they won by deception.
STUPID, GULLIBLE INFIDELS! -TYR



On what basis were they to be denied?