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This Is A Muslim Community Center

Posted on | September 16, 2010 | No Comments

This is a Muslim Community Center.

Specifically, this is the Islamic Community Center that has been built near one of my rental properties. I’m not sure what makes it a community center, rather than a Mosque, as it has no swimming pool or basketball courts. Those are always cited to prove the Park 51 project “isn’t a Mosque”




I don’t have a problem with this particular building, at least not in a “there shouldn’t be a Mosque there” way. I do have a problem with the building in the “it’s a big, ugly, pink building in the middle of a small neighborhood” way. Seriously, that is an ugly building.

This poor guy bought a house in a reasonably quiet neighborhood, next to other houses. Now he has that next to his driveway. I can’t imagine that his resale value has been improved.

There was previously a community center across the street to the north of this location. A small, unassuming building that was only recognizable by a small sign and a crescent ornament on the roof. I have no idea what this new larger center means to the neighborhood. It has not yet opened, so I don’t know if the traffic patterns will be affected or if there will be noise issues.

In other words, my displeasure with this building is the same displeasure I would have with any business or organization who put something large and ugly and commercial in a neighborhood where I have an investment.

Of course, this isn’t painfully close to a site where thousands of innocent people, Americans and others, were killed in the name of Allah, though they were not just Christians and Jews, but Muslims, Atheists, Buddhists and others. Were that to be the case, my feelings about this particular building would be much, much different.



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Category: AZ, Law, Middle East, Phoenix, politics

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