[lit-ideas] Re: Refudiate Meditation Rooms
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 17:33:29 +0000 (GMT)
> I would not object to the centre if it were free and open
> to all,
it will be open to all, I assume it will be free, I don't know
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Wed, 4/8/10, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Refudiate Meditation Rooms
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, 4 August, 2010, 18:18
>
>
> In a message dated 8/3/2010 10:22:22 P.M., jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx
>
> writes:
> How is it possible to stop any religious organization
> from buying property
> and building a center dedicated to the interests of
> that religion anywhere
> unless all other religions are similarly
> forbidden to do so within that
> area as well? Zoning laws make sense to me, but
> only if they're applied
> equally to all, else welcome to injustice.
> Islamism did not commit the crimes
> of 9/11 -- radical individuals did and though they
> were Islamists, they
> are not representative of Islamism -- only its
> right-wing extreme. Many of
> the contemporary crimes of Christians and Jews are no
> less heinous. Unless
> NYC is prepared to outlaw all religious institutions
> from operating within
> Ground Zero, I see no just or Constitutional way to
> prohibit the Islamists
> from doing so.
>
> ---
>
> The problem is not so much the fact that they divided,
> otiosely, between
> the library AND the swimming pool. The problem is the
> meditation ROOM. What
> kind of a concept is that?
>
>
> "a 13-story, $100 million Islamic center. Cordoba wants to
> transform the
> building into a glass tower with a swimming pool,
> basketball court,
> auditorium and culinary school besides the mosque. The
> center, called Park51, also
> would have a library, art studios and meditation rooms."
>
> Also, I dislike that it will have 13 stories. Call me
> superstitious, but
> 13 is not exactly a lucky name.
>
> "Park51", and it's not like I like "Cordoba House" better,
> sounds too much
> like "Club 54" -- another NYC mecca of former times.
>
> You cannot really compare a church with a mosque.
> Well-respected
> Manhattanites who are Christian will attend either St.
> Patrick or St. Thomas, nicely
> situated on 5th Avenue.
>
> Lower Manhattan was originally a Dutch area, and to some it
> has so
> remained.
>
> It may be argued that a 'closet' is the Christian
> equivalent of a
> 'meditation' room. Apparenlty, American closets were
> originally built to close
> yourself to mediate (hence 'skeleton out of the closet').
>
> I would not object to the centre if it were free and open
> to all, but not
> everybody is 'going Muslim' and, plus, we don't know what
> kind of books
> would be storaged in that 'swimming-pool library with
> a view'.
>
> Pls refudiate, peace-making Muslims.
>
> Speranza
> The Swimming Pool Library
> Villa Speranza
> Bordighera
>
>
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