Mosque Controversy Skips Pentagon

[chefdennis]

Hmmm...This kind of shows that maybe that all the noise about the NYC mosque really isn't about denying religious freedom, its just about the location.....

Mosque Controversy Skips Pentagon: Muslims Gather in Daily Prayer at 9/11 Crash Site

100-Seat Chapel Schedules Services for Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Episcopalian, Catholic and Protestant Employees

By LUIS MARTINEZ
Aug. 17, 2010

Amid flaring political debate about a proposed New York City mosque near Ground Zero, there has been little commotion about the Pentagon's chapel where Muslims can gather in daily prayer near where a hijacked jetliner struck the building Sept. 11, 2001.

Sometimes misidentified as the "Pentagon Mosque," the non-denominational Pentagon Memorial Chapel maintained by the Pentagon Chaplain's Office is where department employees who practice Islam can meet to pray.

Located at the site where the hijacked American Airlines flight 77 struck the Defense Department headquarters, the chapel honors the memory of the 184 victims of the 9/11 attack.

The 100-seat chapel is available to Pentagon employees of all faiths to come in prayer as they wish throughout the day. The Pentagon Chaplain's
Office schedules weekly religious services in the chapel for Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Protestants and Episcopalians, as well as a daily Catholic Mass. Muslim worshippers can gather daily to offer prayers and can attend a Friday Prayer Service led by an Imam.

More at:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mosqu...ry?id=11417673

 

[Turtle]

Hmmm...This kind of shows that maybe that all the noise about the NYC mosque really isn't about denying religious freedom, its just about the location.....

Uhm, duh. No one (other than a couple of goobers on these forums) have stood up and screamed that Muslims couldn't practice their religion, it's always been about the location. The problem with denying the location, private property no less, is the end result is the infringement of religious freedom. When a sentence is started with, "You can practice your religion, except....", it's that "except" that is the infringement.

The reason people aren't all up in arms over the Pentagon Chapel is because it was there before 9/11, and it's not primarily for Muslims.