Manhattan, NY - Former Burlington Coat Factory Near Ground Zero Now A Mosque |
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News Source: NY Times By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
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![Men exited a building that houses a mosque around the corner from he former World Trade Center site. Burlington Coat Factory operated a store at the location until September 11, 2001 but it has remained vacant since then, only recently being utilized as a place of worship. [Michael Appleton for The New York Times]](http://uploads.static.vosizneias.com/2009/12/bu5.jpg "bu5")
Men exited a building that houses a mosque around the corner from he former World Trade Center site. Burlington Coat Factory operated a store at the location until September 11, 2001 but it has remained vacant since then, only recently being utilized as a place of worship. [Michael Appleton for The New York Times]Manhattan, NY - On that still-quiet Tuesday morning, the sales staff was in a basement room eating breakfast, waiting to open the doors to the first shoppers at 10 a.m.
There was no immediate sign of the fiery cataclysm that erupted overhead starting at 8:46. But out of a baby-blue sky suddenly stained with smoke, a plane’s landing-gear assembly the size of a World War II torpedo crashed through the roof and down through two empty selling floors of the Burlington Coat Factory.
The Sept. 11, 2001, attack killed 2,752 people downtown and doomed the five-story building at 45 Park Place, two blocks north of the World Trade Center. The store remained abandoned for the next eight years, one of the last undeveloped downtown properties damaged in the attack.
But for months now, out of the public eye, an iron gate rises every Friday afternoon, and with the outside rumblings of construction at ground zero as a backdrop, hundreds of Muslims crowd inside, facing Mecca in prayer and listening to their imam read in Arabic from the Koran.
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Dec 08, 2009 at 01:50 PM moishe Says:Report as Inappropriate
disgusting whats going on, especially so close to the 9-11 site
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Dec 08, 2009 at 01:52 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
"we're more than great coats"
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Dec 08, 2009 at 01:59 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
Sick
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Dec 08, 2009 at 02:02 PM Aharoni Macaroni Says:Report as Inappropriate
This way they can say "kaddish" for their "kedoshim" who died al-kiddush-allah
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Dec 08, 2009 at 02:03 PM Harav Hagaon Says:Report as Inappropriate
"Have you murdered and also inherited?"
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Dec 08, 2009 at 02:16 PM LiBERALISM IS A DISEASE!!! Says:Report as Inappropriate
so now the mamzayrim yemach sh'mom can pray toward ground zero as opposed to drecca!?!??
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Dec 08, 2009 at 02:20 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
I didn't see any shuls rushing in to rent the space so why shouldn't the mosque be allowed to rent. We are a long way from prohibiting muslims, litvashe yiddin or budhists from having their own facilities for prayer.
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Dec 08, 2009 at 02:20 PM chuchom Says:Report as Inappropriate
Boy its good the City Council passed the law that from 2026, they wont be able to hide in NYC behind metal roll down gates.
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Dec 08, 2009 at 02:30 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
I have tingling going up my legs and spine from this "heartwarming encouraging" article in the New York Slimes.
I'm just wondering how come the Slimes goes out of thier way to always put muslims in such positive light and never finds a decent word to say about Jews or Israel?
BTW, that question was sarcastic.
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Dec 08, 2009 at 02:47 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
They buy houses and turn them into mosques, just like shtibls!!
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Dec 08, 2009 at 03:21 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
I'm sure the frum former owner of BCF is not shepping nachas down in Florida.
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Dec 08, 2009 at 03:34 PM SAM Says:Report as Inappropriate
THEY ARE JUST PRAYING WHATS WRONG
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Dec 08, 2009 at 04:07 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ "Have you murdered and also inherited?" ”
you are like the people who blame "the Jews" for killing Jesus - I didn't kill Jesus and these guys praying here didn't fly into the WTC
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Dec 08, 2009 at 04:16 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ I'm sure the frum former owner of BCF is not shepping nachas down in Florida. ”
Has nothing to do with the Real Estate- most stores are rented
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Dec 08, 2009 at 05:04 PM Chelmite Says:Report as Inappropriate
This is called Hargagta VeGam Yarashta
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Dec 08, 2009 at 05:24 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ you are like the people who blame "the Jews" for killing Jesus - I didn't kill Jesus and these guys praying here didn't fly into the WTC ”
#13-thank you
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Dec 08, 2009 at 06:22 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ you are like the people who blame "the Jews" for killing Jesus - I didn't kill Jesus and these guys praying here didn't fly into the WTC ”
This says it all!
We should NOT discriminate based on religion, but we should judge people as individuals based on their actions.
Muslims have a right to pray.
These people are pacifists, looking to spread a message of peace and not terror.
The proximity to ground zero forms the entire basis for anything potentially newsworth about this story, and frankly, this is a case of the Times sleazily sensationalizing the story.
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Dec 08, 2009 at 06:28 PM mentch Says:Report as Inappropriate
this is what the gov should focus on
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Dec 08, 2009 at 06:43 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
How can you compare them to us when a very 'healthy' percentage of them ADMIT to wanting to murder innocents in Israel, here in the USA, and elsewhere!!!??
Where is you critical thinking skills????
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Dec 09, 2009 at 10:01 AM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ This says it all!
We should NOT discriminate based on religion, but we should judge people as individuals based on their actions.
Muslims have a right to pray.
These people are pacifists, looking to spread a message of peace and not terror.
The proximity to ground zero forms the entire basis for anything potentially newsworth about this story, and frankly, this is a case of the Times sleazily sensationalizing the story.
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Either you are being sarcastic or you are very sadly very naive.
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Dec 09, 2009 at 01:29 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
3,6,14,&19=thank you! 2,7,8,9 & 20=shame on you!!
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Dec 16, 2009 at 04:19 PM Samantha Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ THEY ARE JUST PRAYING WHATS WRONG ”
Try building a church in a predominately Muslim country and see how long they tolerate that! If they had honest intentions on worship and not to kick big satan in the teeth, I could see it. They will be praying for the next terrorist attack in America!
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Jan 19, 2010 at 09:32 PM Amwiserkafira Says:Report as Inappropriate
“ THEY ARE JUST PRAYING WHATS WRONG ”
ONCE a new mosque is built it begins a chain of events that is recorded times over in other countries. The Muslim community swells around the mosque, the streets get closed off during Holidays becoming a NO-GO ZONE and the laws begin to change slowly to favor Sharia because of their constant pressure and political demands. Eventually the community practices Sharia on it's own once the majority gets up past a certain point around 20-25%. THAT'S what's wrong.