I think there should be a compromise regarding the Ground Zero Mosque

[MadBadger]

How bout this, Dont build a Mosque. Build lets say...a Muslim Community Center and have it contain a place for prayer. And dont build it on ground zero, thats ridiculous. I think building it a couple blocks away would be a fair compromise...

[klook]

1. Excellent

Please call in to Rush Limbaugh's show with this suggestion tomorrow.

[hlthe2b]

2. What a thought!

geez.. too bad the organizers of the effort didn't think about that--maybe consider purchasing a vacant and wasted space, like the Burlington Coat Factory to aid with the blight of shuttered businesses.

:sarcasm:

[PufPuf23]

3. Gee that might even be the reality of the Manhattan real estate market.

Plus Mayor Bloomberg, NYC planners, and local Christian and Jewish leaders just might support the development.

The Iamn is a Sufi and did out reach for GWB and now the State Department under SOS Clinton.

I can handle this "compromise" and civil right.

[baldguy]

4. But...but...but...IT'S HALLOWED GROUND!!!!

With pawn shops and strip clubs.

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. now that sounds reasonable! But don't be surprised if there are still some bigots

who won't accept even that...I know it sounds CRAZY, but I bet there will be.

[tavalon]

22. This is the original plan

No changes at all. No controversy at all. This is an example of controversy created out of thin air. Whoosh!

[pleah]

6. Um, I thought that where they want to build the mosque WAS two blocks away

from ground zero.

[Uzybone]

10. Are you sarcasm impaired?

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[tavalon]

23. They weren't ever building a mosque - that was right wing spin

They were building a community center with an area for prayer. And yes, the plan has been to build this community center two blocks away. We have been front seaters to a ginned up controversy about........nothing.

[pleah]

25. Yep. n/t

[Bluebear]

7. Oh...

man was I sarcasm impaired there! :toast:

[pleah]

8. +1

[Uzybone]

9. Great idea

and while we are at it, lets bring in more businesses to the area. Adult clubs, McDonalds etc...let them all revitalize that area.

[rhett o rick]

11. Well, damn if you dont drive a hard bargan. Ok, I am in. nm

[pinboy3niner]

13. Well, I don't like it at all! But Dean said we should compromise...

...so (reluctantly), okay--I'm in. :)

[Canuckistanian]

14. Sounds fair to me

All in favor? Unanimous? Carried.

Next business.

[IndianaGreen]

15. It is two blocks from WTC site, and Mayor Bloomberg has said what should have been said

by a lot of people that have chosen to remain silent. Bloomberg rocks, while many others suck!

"...If we say that a mosque or a community center should not be built near the perimeter of the World Trade Center site, we would compromise our commitment to fighting terror with freedom.

“We would undercut the values and principles that so many heroes died protecting. We would feed the false impressions that some Americans have about Muslims. We would send a signal around the world that Muslim Americans may be equal in the eyes of the law, but separate in the eyes of their countrymen. And we would hand a valuable propaganda tool to terrorist recruiters, who spread the fallacy that America is at war with Islam.

“Islam did not attack the World Trade Center - Al-Qaeda did. To implicate all of Islam for the actions of a few who twisted a great religion is unfair and un-American. Today we are not at war with Islam - we are at war with Al-Qaeda and other extremists who hate freedom..."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/08/mayor-bloomberg-defends-mosque.html#ixzz0xg9YrPvT

Full remarks by Mayor Bloomberg:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/36400723/Bloomberg-remarks-Iftar-Dinner

[applegrove]

16. Aw you!

[Scurrilous]

17. Sounds reasonable. n/t

[upi402]

18. itsatripleparadidle

i mean, it's a distractioinary emotional issue to divert the masses from the reaming sensation between the buttocks.

[sabrina 1]

19. I think that's a fair compromise.

The problem with compromises, like the Public Option eg, is that when you start with a compromise you always go downhill from there. Which is why you should always start with what you actually want.

[seabeyond]

20. that is so cute.... i like. nt

[tavalon]

21. The sad thing is that an awful lot of people don't know that that is/was and always has been the

plan.

[tavalon]

24. We should have sent you in to compromise on health care

At least you would have gone in with an uncompromised position to start.