#mosque

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#best part #center #city #forever #hearts

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#based #basic #been #build #center

But I do think it's unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America. ↗

— John Cornyn

#america #attack #build #demonstrates #disconnected

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. ↗

— Peter King

#auschwitz #away #bridges #building #community

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. ↗

— Alan Watts

#completely #different #god #mosque #natural

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bow #church #i #i love #i love you

People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#burn #constitutional #constitutional right #doing #ground

Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call. ↗

— Kilari Anand Paul

#build #call #does #ground #ground zero

It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#church #door #fair #law #man

Those who reject integration programs in the long term have as little right to stay in Germany as a hate preacher paid from abroad in a mosque. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#germany #hate #integration #little #long