What makes it unwise?
I was browsing my facebook today when this gem of a status update came along:
"I was watching a US cable news show tonight, and watched a supporter of the Ground Zero Mosque insisting that the US Constitution grants the right to build such a mosque at that location. IMHO, that would be insensitive and unwise, as would the US media and citizens exercising their right to free press and free speech by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed."
There were some replies, many of them just barking the same "Yes I agree it's unwise!!"
I had to say something.
So here was my reply:
"What makes it unwise?
What connection to people behind this community centre have to the people who flew the planes into the Towers, other than the fact that they follow the same (or perhaps only similar) religion as the terrorists?
There are 1.5 billion muslims in the world.
Do all of them have to personally apologize for the actions of a small fraction of crazies?
Do all republicans have to apologize for Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing and should no republican recruitment centres be built within, say... what..., a 20 - 30 block radius of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building site ever again?
Is it because it will be unsafe for them to be there be cause of racists and hate mongers wanting to harm them?
Is that a good way to live?
Let the crazies and the racist among us dictate to us how we should live out our lives and how we get to practice our rights?
What difference does 2 blocks make.
There is a mosque 4 blocks away already.
I am not even going to bother explaining about how this is a community centre first and mosque 10th.
This building has been in the planning for over a year now and even FOX NEWS congratulated them on it last year when it wasn't election season.
All this hype is political in nature and the patsies go along for a ride they don't even know they are on."
"I was watching a US cable news show tonight, and watched a supporter of the Ground Zero Mosque insisting that the US Constitution grants the right to build such a mosque at that location. IMHO, that would be insensitive and unwise, as would the US media and citizens exercising their right to free press and free speech by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed."
There were some replies, many of them just barking the same "Yes I agree it's unwise!!"
I had to say something.
So here was my reply:
"What makes it unwise?
What connection to people behind this community centre have to the people who flew the planes into the Towers, other than the fact that they follow the same (or perhaps only similar) religion as the terrorists?
There are 1.5 billion muslims in the world.
Do all of them have to personally apologize for the actions of a small fraction of crazies?
Do all republicans have to apologize for Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing and should no republican recruitment centres be built within, say... what..., a 20 - 30 block radius of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building site ever again?
Is it because it will be unsafe for them to be there be cause of racists and hate mongers wanting to harm them?
Is that a good way to live?
Let the crazies and the racist among us dictate to us how we should live out our lives and how we get to practice our rights?
What difference does 2 blocks make.
There is a mosque 4 blocks away already.
I am not even going to bother explaining about how this is a community centre first and mosque 10th.
This building has been in the planning for over a year now and even FOX NEWS congratulated them on it last year when it wasn't election season.
All this hype is political in nature and the patsies go along for a ride they don't even know they are on."