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The World Trade Center was a Mosque!

An Islamic community center, with an interfaith chapel and a prayer room, is slated to be built the equivalent of 5 city blocks from the 9/11 ground zero site.

This community center, modeled after the YMCA or a Jewish Community Center, is being called a "mosque" because, along with the b-ball courts and steam rooms, the building will have a prayer room.

A mosque invokes the image of elaborate domes, minarets, and calls to pray broadcast over loudspeakers. This community center will not have those.

What about the interfaith chapel? How many other mosques have that? Ummmmm...exactly none!

Is a community center with a prayer room a mosque? By that standard, a hospital with a chapel is a church. An airport with a chapel is a church. Hell, the Twin Towers had nine chapels serving six different faiths.

And one of them was a Muslim prayer room.

That's right. The World Trade Center had a Muslim prayer room, in building 2.

While some people are bitterly objecting to the building of a so-called mosque in lower Manhattan, they ignore the fact that Muslims pray daily (and have for years) in a chapel 80 feet from the Pentagon's 9/11 crash site. They even have an Imam there to deliver a sermon every Friday.

That's right. The Pentagon is a mosque.

What do members of the military think?

"Abraham Scott, whose wife, Janice, was a civilian Army employee killed at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, said that while he opposes the lower Manhattan mosque, he 'can live with' the fact that Muslims pray at a Pentagon chapel."

"'It's not a mosque that's built specifically for Muslims,' Scott said. 'It's a facility where Muslims can go and pray.'" [1]

The Islamic community center, open to the public, with facilities available to all, with an interfaith chapel, is not a mosque that's built specifically for Muslims.

It's a building with a room where Muslims can go and pray. Just like they did inside building 2 of the World Trade Center.


[1]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/muslims-pray-daily-80-fee_n_686870.html

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