Would you be comfortable with a Mosque built in your neighbourhood?

[MobBoss]

One thing I like about Islam is that although Muslims are instructed to inform people about their religion, if a person clearly doesn't want to hear it or is not convinced, there is no requirement to badger them until they are "saved" lol: oh you evangelical Christians).

I think the evangelicals get a bad rap on this. Personally I have never seen an evangelical 'badger' anyone. Secondly, I too get Jehovahs Witness', Evangelicals and Mormons at my door and they are always polite and if I say 'no thanks' then thats all right and they say goodbye.

I think people are just to prone to be sterotypical where this is concerned as in my own case its never the situation.

 

[Red Door]

I think the evangelicals get a bad rap on this. Personally I have never seen an evangelical 'badger' anyone.

You must've missed the evangelical ask if I'd been saved here on CFC the other day. They're all over the place now, watch Jesus Camp.

 

[MobBoss]

You must've missed the evangelical ask if I'd been saved here on CFC the other day. They're all over the place now, watch Jesus Camp.

No thanks...I would rather not watch a hit piece documentary that lied to the people they were filming thanks. I prefer my propaganda with a bit more balance.

 

[Red Door]

No thanks...I would rather not watch a hit piece documentary that lied to the people they were filming thanks. I prefer my propaganda with a bit more balance.

It's quite a good movie, and it shows some truth. You don't need to listen to the liberal BS, just watch these evangelicals. They're crazy, and they try to convert you on the spot.

 

[JollyRoger]

No thanks...I would rather not watch a hit piece documentary that lied to the people they were filming thanks. I prefer my propaganda with a bit more balance.

It featured Ted Haggard, so that balanced out the lying a little bit.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I dislike religion but there are other factors like the BS tax evasion that religions get. I loath how my taxes would have to go up to support the parisitic house of worship. And the enviromental impact of a large building and parking lot that comes with it coupled with the added traffic.

Do you think all not-for-profit organizations should be taxed? Do your taxes actually support them, or does that money come from the congregation itself?

(Also, LDS missionaries actually tract more when there are fewer members and thus fewer churches in an area . . .)

 

[skadistic]

Do you think all not-for-profit organizations should be taxed? Do your taxes actually support them, or does that money come from the congregation itself?

(Also, LDS missionaries actually tract more when there are fewer members and thus fewer churches in an area . . .)

I think all entities that use the services should pay their fair share of the cost. I don't care what they are. If they don't pay for firefighters they should through property taxes they should have no problem burning. If i have to pay so should everyone else. I don't see it as fair that I should have to shoulder the burden.

My money sure does pay for churches.

The people who use the churches pay for the protection of their own homes and businesses in their taxes not the church. Everyone pays for the church weather you use it or not since it doesn't pay for it self.

From the other thread in respounse to Mobboss trying to say I don't pay for the church.

 

[JohnRM]

I would love to lie to you and say, 'sure', but I know that I would not be comfortable with it.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Would you be comfortable with a Mosque built in your neighbourhood?

I recently started a topic about public funding for religious/Islamic schools. That gave me the idea to post a more general topic about how comfortable people would be with the idea of a Mosque being built in their neighbourhood. Assume that the Mosque would have as much (or as little) government funding/support as the places of religious worship that are dominant in your area (ie: church, synagogue, temple, etc.)

So the poll question is simple. I'll break it down by region. Please feel free to post your comments too, especially if you do feel uncomfortable.

Be honest in your posts, but please be respectful !

It would be a bit odd to have another church in my small neighborhood (there's already a Lutheran church about two doors down), but if they really wanted to have one HERE, I'd be just fine with it. I might even visit it once in a while. An Imam's call to prayer is one of most beautiful things I've ever heard.

 

[MobBoss]

My money sure does pay for churches.

Again, no your money does not. Your money pays for 'services' the church might or might not use.

In your example of the firefighters, if the church has never burned down, then your money isnt going to support the church at all.

From the other thread in respounse to Mobboss trying to say I don't pay for the church.

Again...you dont. You help pay for services the church may or may not use.

 

[aussieboy]

I wouldn't mind at all, seeing I live down the road from three churches, one Catholic, one Mormon, and one Lutheran, another place of worship won't make much of a difference. We have a community of Muslims in these parts. Good, patriotic Americans, yet devout in their religion. Quiet folk, hard-working, assimilated.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Both near me, and I like both of them. You can say about religion what you want, but they spawn pretty structures

 

[Leifmk]

It wouldn't bother me in the slightest, as long as it didn't result in too much extra traffic, parking problems, etc. It'd be useful as a landmark, break the monotony of suburbia, and hopefully the building might look prettier than the one used by the large charismatic Christian group which we already have in the neighbourhood (a converted factory, ugly rectangular thing).

 

[Stacmon]

We've heard a lot of comments about the beauty people associate with mosques.

I agree completely, I think that Mosques and Islamic buildings are among the most beautiful in the world. There are many examples, here are some of the ones I like most:

Mosques and Madrassas

Turkey (Istanbul)

Turkey (Istanbul)

Russia (Kazan, Tartarstan)

Egypt (Cairo)

Saudi Arabia (Makkah)

Saudi Arabia (Madinah)

Uzbekistan (Samarkand)

India (Delhi)

India (Delhi)

Pakistan (Islamabad)

Pakistan (Lahore)

Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

Malaysia (Kuala Kangsar)

Indonesia (Aceh)

Brunei (small country neighbouring Malaysia)

 

[skadistic]

You know what would be better looking then buildings like that? Forests or grasslands.

 

[JollyRoger]

You know what would be better looking then buildings like that? Forests or grasslands.

Damned Wiccan.

 

[Red Door]

You know what would be better looking then buildings like that? Forests or grasslands.

Not possible in today's world, especially if you live in an Urban area or the Suburbs.

 

[aussieboy]

I have to agree. Religion has that talent of attracting the most creative of individuals.

 

[Sophie 378]

And if a religious building a) had sufficient parking, even for peak events; b) had an entrance that wasn't directly next to your property; and c) didn;t have high noise levels, would it still be an issue.

As long as there was little disruption as mentioned above, I would be fine with a mosque near my house. And I used to live within sight of the notorious Finsbury Park Mosque. I would be annoyed about that sort of disruption whatever was causing it - mosque, church, synagogue, supermarket or school!

Edit: there are several mosques in Birmingham. I regard them more or less the same way that I regard churches, with a +1 for being a sign of multicultural society (different and interesting), and a -0.00001 for being associated with terrorism in the minds of the hysterical tabloids.

 

[Perfection]

Possibly, if it was radical I'd be uncomfortable.