Majority Of New Yorkers Against Ground Zero Mosque at Pat Dollard

Majority Of New Yorkers Against Ground Zero Mosque

July 1st, 2010 (12) Posted By Erik Wong.

More than half of New York voters oppose a plan to build a Muslim community center blocks from Ground Zero, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.

A strong 52 % of voters in the five boroughs don’t want the Cordoba House built in lower Manhattan, compared to 31 % who support it.

Manhattan voters expressed the most support for the project, with 46 % in favor and 36 % opposed.

The strongest opposition came from Staten Island, where 73 % of voters oppose it compared to just 14 % in favor.

The Cordoba House, a planned 13-floor Muslim community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, needs no approval to be built downtown.

The only obstacle for developers is pending landmarks status for the building they intend to demolish to make way for the center.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission will vote later this month on the building.

Opposition to the Cordoba House aside, 55 % of New Yorkers said “mainstream Islam” is a “peaceful religion” compared to 22 % who said the religion “encourages violence against non-Muslims,” the poll found.

“Is it because we’re still nursing the wounds from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center or is it more like bigotry?” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, CT, in a statement about the results.

“Opponents suggest that the mosque would dishonor the memory of the attack’s victims,” Carroll said.

The survey of 1,183 registered voters in New York, conducted from June 21 to June 28, has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

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windigo

Building a symbol of Islam at ground zero desecrates, to the highest level, all those that were murdered! And there is only one reason to try to build it there…to demonstrate Islamic superiority to the world! Not NO, but HELL NO!
Cold Soldier

Most New Yorkers are immigrants, or niave, despite all their perceived “sophistication”.
Most look down their noses at the “fly-over-land people”
But just like the majority of Americans, they are easily distracted, and look for the next shiny pretty thing to come along.
DANEL

HEY COLD SOLDIER
PLEASE EXPLAIN YOUR RESPONSE”FLY OVER LAND PEOPLE”.YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ME AND I THINK YOUR CONFUSED.WHAT NEXT SHINY PRETTY THING ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.IF I KNEW WHAT YOU MEANT,I WOULD BE BETTER PREPARED TO AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH YOUR WORDS.

Cold Soldier

I refer to the people in “Middle America” as “Fly-over-land”, of which, I am one too. People on the East Coast or West Coast tend to look down their noses at us.
“Pretty Shiny Things” is the ignorant tendency of the American people to choose style over substance.

Hope that cleared it up for you.

David

Build the fucking mosque in honor of allah. Then fly a drone with a BIG bomb on board into it at prayer time. Problem solved. The goat worshippers will think twice before they desecrate our Country.
Little Joe McCarthy

Irrespective of anyone’s “feelings” about the mosque, New Yorkers need to realize that this islamist act of building a mosque on the grounds of their enemies is an age-old practice of triumphalism and conquer. Is New York conquered? The umma will believe so if this terrible thing is allowed to be constructed. Remember, there are NO churches in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.myspace.com/ssgduke ssgduke (Retired)

Build this mosque and this show how much we as a Nation have declined. For we have become too civilize and practice the corrupt form of Political Correctness!! This has rob us of our Common Sense that once led us to greatness! Now we are soooo disunited that if we practice Common Sense again we would be label either Racist or worst a Hate Monger! So America do you have the guts to take back what was yours (Your Freedom and your love of this Country)?!! For if you don’t then within our own lifetime we will see the decline and the breakup of the United States. And then what will emerge is many different 3rd world totalitarian banana Countries. Your choice America for I have already made mine….

Those who do not stand up to corrupt Politicians deserve a Tyrannical Government….TKD
dogwhisperer

many have been desythentized(sp) because the msm has stopped airing the footage but this is wrong and will not stand.
mike3481

Every single man, woman and child in Manhattan needs to witness/experience just one day actually living under Sharia Law.

Then I’d wager less than 10% of Manhattan voters would be in favor of it, instead of 46%.

dogwhisperer

Respectfully mike i believe that many of the man boys would love the power over women and all things not them that is inherant with islam so i think that your percentage is a tad low. but yes, let newyork try it it would be for the greater good.

great point and solution you offer.

BradW (the Infidel)

I vote with David on the course of action…since they do not need approval to build it, take action after they are done, and then,,,the WILL be done

BradW (the Infidel)

sorry, THEY will be “done”…