Masjid berhampiran Ground Zero

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source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38538068/ns/us_news-life/?GT1=43001

Panel clears way for mosque near ground zero
Sarah Palin, others argue the mosque would disrespect the memory of Sept. 11 victims

NEW YORK — A city commission on Tuesday denied landmark status to a building near the World Trade Center site, freeing a group to convert the property into an Islamic community center and mosque that has drawn national opposition.


The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 9-0, saying the 152-year-old building blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks wasn't special or distinctive enough to meet criteria to qualify as a landmark. Commissioners also said that other buildings from the era were better examples of the building's style.


National and New York politicians and the Anti-Defamation League have come out in recent weeks against plans for the mosque, saying it disrespects the memory of those killed in the 2001 attacks carried out by adherents of radical Islam. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also chairs the foundation building the Sept. 11 memorial, has defended plans for the mosque.


High-profile opposition
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are among the opposition.

"Many Americans, myself included, feel it would be an intolerable and tragic mistake to allow such a project ... to go forward on such hallowed ground," Palin wrote in a Facebook message originally posted July 20.

"No mosque," Gingrich stated on his website late last month.

"The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over," he wrote, adding that the decision over whether to build the facility was "a test of the timidity, passivity and historic ignorance of American elites."

Banyak bantahan diterima terutamanya dari golongan elit. Apepun, AlhamduliLlah pembinaan mendapat kelulusan. Moga sinar Islam yang terpancar akan membuka pintu hidayah Allah kepada mereka yang menentang Islam selama ini insyaAllah.

Sejak peristiwa 9/11, Islam makin dikenali dan didekati. Penganut agama lain mula ingin mengenali Islam yang sebenarnya. Masyarakat Barat gemar membaca dan membuat kajian apa yang mereka ingin ketahui. Mereka tidak menerima membuta tuli apa yang pemimpin mereka dan media-media sampaikan. Itulah keistimewaan masyarakat Barat.

Sedikit tambahan...

This is New York City on Madison Ave...

This is an accurate picture of every Friday afternoon in several locations throughout NYC where there are mosques with a large number of Muslims that cannot fit into the mosque.

They fill the surrounding streets, facing east for a couple of hours between about 2 & 4 p.m. –

Besides this one at 42nd St & Madison Ave, there is another,
Even larger group, at 94th St & 3rd Ave, etc., etc. –


SubhanaLlah, walaupun ditekan hebat dan didiskriminasi masyarakat bukan Islam terutamanya di New York.. tiada penghalang untuk melaksanakan tanggungjawab kepada Allah. Kita akan berasa kuat jika mempunyai saudara Islam yang saling menyokong insyaAllah.