[quote name='IRHari']Do you object to the mosque at the Pentagon?
You think its douchy for American Muslims to build a mosque so close to 9/11. But they had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. There's nothing douchy about it.
It's only douchy if you think American Muslims had something in common with Al Qaeda. They did not.
Muslims can be there they just shouldn't express their 1st amendment rights there (praying)? That would be douchy wouldn't it? Praying to Allah 2 blocks from 9/11 would be douchy?[/QUOTE]
1. Sometimes misidentified as the "Pentagon Mosque," the non-denominational Pentagon Memorial Chapel maintained by the Pentagon Chaplain's Office is where department employees who practice Islam can meet to pray.
Located at the site where the hijacked American Airlines flight 77 struck the Defense Department headquarters, the chapel honors the memory of the
184 victims of the
9/11 attack.
The 100-seat chapel is available to Pentagon employees of all faiths to come in prayer as they wish throughout the day. The Pentagon Chaplain's Office schedules weekly religious services in the chapel for Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Protestants and Episcopalians, as well as a daily Catholic Mass.
Muslim worshippers can gather daily to offer prayers and can attend a Friday Prayer Service led by an Imam.
The office is "very open and very accommodating to the religious needs of the employees here in the building," he added.
The Muslim services at the Pentagon chapel have led some politicians to label it, incorrectly, as a
mosque.
No religious icons or pictures are on display at the chapel. Religious symbols are brought in for religious services. A Torah, for example, housed in an ornate ark, is brought from behind curtains for use in the weekly Jewish service.
2. 9/11 was done by extremists in the name of Islam, extremist or not building a mosque in a location directly affected, (and by affected I mean destroyed) by 9/11 leaves a whole lot to be interpreted by a whole lot of different groups. This doesn't mean he is responsible for the views of those groups, but I'll ask one more time, Would building the mosque in a different area negatively affect his peaceful mission? Probably not. Would it positively diffuse the situation that extremists might use it as propaganda? Yep.
This is something he should weigh in his mind, and he may have already, but other Americans can simple disagree, and you have no right to generalize them all as bigots because they disagree with something.
ing word. Gay people have absolutly no bearing on your life or ability to function in today's world. We have thousands of orphan kids who will NEVER have parents. Let them marry and have kids. Really, what's to prevent them from having kids naturally and still raising them in a gay home? Nothing. What's to prevent them from taking part in any and all activities married couples do? Nothing. Let's focus our resources on issues that matter... like getting our economy going again, working as a singular government, or finding a cure from cancer.
