SJS wrote,
“Why did they choose this location? Because they had a lease with an option to buy. Its a great location, great size and perfect for them. And it was an easy purchase.”
In fact they got a good deal because it is a run down area featuring (among other things) gay bars and strip joints. A place where people can worship God (the proposed center will have a prayer room) will be an elevation over the current tumah!
Mod-80 wrote,
“i dont think so….look what they teach their children in school”
Google “gus dur” and you will find a web site devoted to the teachings of a man who died late last year who was the leader of the largest Muslim organization in the world. His name was “Abdurrahman Wahid” and he also served briefly as President of Indonesia. He was a tremendous Muslim scholar and a man of peace and tolerance. No less a figure than Paul Wolfowitz wrote in his praise after his death. Unfortunately, most Americans have never heard of him and he never had access to the oil money that the Wahabis and Iranian mullahs have that enable them to spread their narrowminded intolerant version of Islam. It is probably Mr. Wahid’s liberal and tolerant form of Islam that President Obama saw when he spent his childhood in Djakarta, Indonesia’s capital. (Remember also that Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world.)