Final-Fan said:
Kasz216 said:
Final-Fan said:
TruckOSaurus said:
How do you figure that millions of people will suffer unneeded anguish from seeing a Mosque close to Ground Zero? |
I think he is imagining massive pilgrimage to the site by PTSD sufferers who have phobic reactions to symbols of Islam.
He can't be talking about residents in the area, as they already must be suffering from the mosque already there! So it's the same angush either way 
On a related note, Kasz, I just thought of the fact that it's not like this building is probably going to have a giant red sign painted on it saying "OMG MUSLIM BUILDING". What makes you so sure this will be instantly identifiable to them, thus triggering the anguish, once the dust settles and the media move on?
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Well, yes. That's actually one coping mechanism. Besides the fact that 14% of 8 million people is already over a million.
As for knowing what it is, well that's easy, Islamic architecture is a lot different from US arhitecture.
It looks like it might get settled anyway though, the whole thing is looking to be a huge cash making scheme. The guy who bought the land for 5 million is now offering to sell it and not build the community center, for the low low price of 20 million.
If that was his original intention, man is a genious.
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So all 8 million people living in the five boroughs of NYC go within viewing distance of the place on a regular basis?? But agreed it would be many many people.
And I would ask if the building is actually going to have "Islamic architecture", and not just be a Western-style building (remember, community center) with Islamic contents and a sign or two out front. Just like a lot of churches no longer exhibit the fairly distinct "church architecture", I think it's fairly likely that a building that is only PARTLY mosque would not have a special style of architecture. But then again, it might. So: how sure are you of this?
And if it was just a scheme, one of those guys is a super genius because he's the #2 shareholder in Fox, which has gotten plenty of play out of this.
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I wouldn't say all 8 million, but a decent amount JUST from NY likely do. The number of people in the US is a huge number.
As for the Islamic Arhitecture, as far as I know, you can't have a mosque without a dome. That's what the history channel thing I last saw on mosque arhitecture said anyway.
If the guy is a shareholder in Fox... it makes it more likely this is all a play whether it goes up or not. I mean this sort of thing is Rupert Murdoch's standard MO.
Fox VS Fox News paradigm shows that. His most recent fundraisers were for Hilary Clinton, he's met with Obama and every president since like... Truman. In the UK he supported the conservatives, until he supported the Labor party, and in Australia (where he's from) he was a staunch supporter of the nationals. Until he started supporting Labor.
Ruper Murdoch likes to play both sides vs the middle like nothing.
