Mosque at Ground Zero

Before I start I would just like us to open our minds, and let go the idea that all muslims want The U.S to fall. That is an inaccurate claim, and muslims say that the U.S. is the best place to be muslim. In order to fully understand the situation, and make a conscious decision we must put ourselves in the shoes of Islam.

Lets pretend that instead of the outlandish Muslim group that ran the planes in to the towers, the individuals were a group of christians. I know this seems like a rather outlandish scenario, but just hang around with me for a little bit. If an occurrence like 911 happened with a Christian group, what type of response would the church have? I believe it would be something of great similarity to what Islam is trying to do with 911. We would ask if we could build a church where the violent act happened. We would want to build a place of what we know as worship and peace to bring order to a crazed situation.

So when I look at the situation from a Muslim perspective the idea isn't to proclaim my religion or discredit lives lost, it is simply to create peace, make things right, and try to create good relations among the United States to say we are not a religion that promotes violence amongst our followers.

Now the idea of building a Mosque instead of a Memorial makes it seem as though, the mosque will not remind people of the people that lost their lives. However i don't imagine that this will be just some cookie cutter mosque. I imagine it will have a memorial essence to it. A mosque built for memory of the lost, and to remember that we are to bring peace to the world, not violence.

I personally like the idea. I think this mosque is the start of solving the problem of religious tension that people never deal with. It is beginning the process of reconciling the hurt suffered from religion and making it right so that we can all get along.