Majority of New Yorkers Oppose Ground Zero Islamic Supremacist Mega Mosque

Again, we urge the Imam to be sensitive to the feelings and sensibilities of New Yorkers and all Americans, and withdraw his plans for the triumphal mosque at Ground Zero. An Appeal to the Humanity of Imam Rauf and Daisy Khan

We will be making our case to the landmark commission and protesting against the mega mosque on  September 11th, the anniversary of the biggest, most brutal Islamic attack on America.  Our first SIOA protest against the mega mosque here, here and here and here was historic, the first protest of its kind in the United States.

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More than half of New York voters oppose Ground Zero mosque plan: pol Daily News

More than half of New York voters oppose a plan to build a Muslim community center blocks from Ground Zero, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.

A strong 52 % of voters in the five boroughs don't want the Cordoba House built in lower Manhattan, compared to 31 % who support it.

Manhattan voters expressed the most support for the project, with 46 % in favor and 36 % opposed.

The strongest opposition came from Staten Island, where 73 % of voters oppose it compared to just 14 % in favor.

The Cordoba House, a planned 13-floor Muslim community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, needs no approval to be built downtown.

The only obstacle for developers is pending landmarks status for the building they intend to demolish to make way for the center.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission will vote later this month on the building.

Opposition to the Cordoba House aside, 55 % of New Yorkers said "mainstream Islam" is a "peaceful religion" compared to 22 % who said the religion "encourages violence against non-Muslims," the poll found.

"Is it because we're still nursing the wounds from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center or is it more like bigotry?" said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, CT, in a statement about the results.

"Opponents suggest that the mosque would dishonor the memory of the attack's victims," Carroll said.

Comments

[Nora]

Dear Pamela,]
Why can't we just mount an effort to bury a few pigs on the land that they want to build a mosque? I live in SoCal but I would be honored to fly out there and busy a pig or two. I am deadly serious. It is my understanding that Muslims will be unable to build where a pig has been buried.

[livingengine]

Lord Carey of Clifton, the former Archbishop of Canterbury is the co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council of 100 West-Islamic Dialogue.

The C-100 has endorsed Feisal Abdul Rauf’s Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow, although actual funding comes by way of HRH Price Al Waleed of Saudi Arabia, and “others”.
http://www2.weforum.org/en/initiatives/c100/Projects/index.html

Lord Carey has said some interesting things about Islam in the past.

From Jihadwatch of September 20, 2006

“Lord Carey said that Muslims must address “with great urgency” their religion’s association with violence. He made it clear that he believed the “clash of civilizations‘” endangering the world was not between Islamist extremists and the West, but with Islam as a whole.
“We are living in dangerous and potentially cataclysmic times,” he said. “There will be no significant material and economic progress [in Muslim communities] until the Muslim mind is allowed to challenge the status quo of Muslim conventions and even their most cherished shibboleths.”...
Lord Carey, who as Archbishop of Canterbury became a pioneer in Christian-Muslim dialogue, himself quoted a contemporary political scientist, Samuel Huntington, who has said the world is witnessing a “clash of civilizations”.
Arguing that Huntington’s thesis has some “validity”, Lord Carey quoted him as saying: “Islam’s borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.”
Lord Carey went on to argue that a “deep-seated Westophobia” has developed in recent years in the Muslim world....”

Of course, he has also given a less than robust defense of free speech during the 2006 cartoon riots.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/br0nc0s/managed-mt/mt-search.cgi?search=lord+carey+of+clifton&IncludeBlogs=1&limit=20

Still, it might be interesting to hear what Lord Carey thought about Feisal Abdul Rauf’s new direction into real estate development.

Lord Carey can be contacted here.
http://www.glcarey.co.uk/Pages/Contact.html

[Laura L]

"Opposition to the Cordoba House aside, 55 % of New Yorkers said "mainstream Islam" is a "peaceful religion" compared to 22 % who said the religion "encourages violence against non-Muslims," the poll found".
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I find this to be disturbing. After all this time people are still very uninformed about islam. The fact of the matter is that those we refer to as "radicals" represent mainstream islam.

[Lenin-McCarthy]

Islam hates everything!

[Undaunted]

Be careful at these protests...

http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2010/06/read-hereabout-boeing-guards-who-somehow-let-twelve-or-was-it-fourteen-handguns-be-stolen-from-a-storage-locker-at-the-he.html#tp