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I realize I'm mostly preaching to the choir in my little corner of the Internet here, but thefreak's posting last night about those teabaggers freaking out about the "Ground Zero mosque" got me thinking. I wonder if anyone has asked them if they would be opposed to a Shinto shrine in Honolulu? Because there's actually a couple there already. Only a few
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the Japanese (country) attacked the US (country) as an act of war;
the Battle of Bunker Hill happened during a war for independence (that was more about taxes than religion) between 2 countries;
9/11 was an attach in the name of religion.
There are plenty of reprehensible things done in the name of Christianity (like those DBs who protest soldier funerals), too - but nothing (in recent history) comparable to the WTC attacks.
If anyone believes the mosque wouldn't be seen as a flag on top of a kowtowed and weak America, by quite a few radicals (disproportionate in number within this still savage religion), I think they have a quite narrow view of the world. This doesn't mean they should be legally stopped from building there, but ppl protesting are not insane - they have the same Constitutional protection to do so.
I'm torn on this issue, b/c I believe, at some point, we really need to stop our arrogance, as a country. Our arrogance manifests itself in thinking that we need to make grand gestures of magnanimousness (?) so the simpletons of the world can understand us (and ultimately "like" us & be assimilated). It's no different than the white-guilt that propagates Affirmative Action. However, I'm very much a Constitutionalist, and I want wussies to leave my right to own a gun alone (I don't own one now, but "gun control" is not the answer - criminals in every country w/o guns have guns). Same goes for free speech & religion - do whatever you want as long as you aren't hurting someone.
-bZj
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