re: #356 NC Gray

I am curious, have any of the folks who claim this is a constitutional issue ever tried to build a church? Because it seems to me that this project is being fast tracked in a way that even a Christian church would not be…

In the relatively small suburban southern city where I live it took my church 4 years of planning and nearly $300,000 cost (survey, architectural etc.) before we ever broke ground. After approval came we had to purchase two other parcels of land and make our paved parking area approximately 85% of the size it needed to be for our congregation size.

It never occurred to us complain to the city/county planning board that we were entitled to build where we wanted in the manor that we saw fit.

What I see here relating to the Islamic faith is a large amount of cognitive dissidence related to what Muslims believe regarding the level to which they can impose their believes on other Muslims or non Muslims. I wonder if liberal / progressives simply view issues like this as triangulation (the enemy of my enemy is my friend). And if so if one day we have Sharia law here in the US and women are forced to where burqas and Jews, liberal Christians (conservative Christians will be dead) other faiths have to pay the jizyah, will you guys look back and think the conservatives might have had a point?

And it all started with the second or third mosque in Lower Manhattan…

Is this project being fast-tracked? How long did it take for them to get to the stage of having their project approved by the zoning commission?

Also, you mean ‘cognitive dissonance’. “Cognitive dissidence” would be something else.