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[enders_shadow]

So:

Is it inappropriate for Muslims to live near ground zero?
Is it inappropriate for Muslims to work near ground zero?
Is it inappropriate for Muslims to pray in their own homes, if those homes are near ground zero

Comments

[skull_bearer]

The anti-mosque argument ougth to habve died after the poll in manhatten revealed that most of the people who would have to deal with it on a daily basis had to problem with it.

[enders_shadow]

What's this!? Trusting New Yorkers to deal with a New York issue?! That's absurd! That's insane! That's....EXACTLY what small-govt republicans should be clamoring for.

[reflaxion]

This is the only poll I found, in which New Yorkers don't support the construction of the mosque. Do you have a different poll?

[enders_shadow]

"Broken down by borough, Manhattan was the most in favor of the mosque, with only 36 percent of residents against it"

And....which borough is the mosque going to be in.....????!!!

[enders_shadow]

"On the other end of the spectrum was Staten Island, where 73 percent of respondents were opposed."

FUCK staten island

The Verazano bridge was designed by Robert Moses, at an incline so steep that subways cannot go on it. This was done delibrately. It was done to keep out poor minorities.

FUCK staten island.

[chemchick]

Staten Island is basically NJ so they don't count. Plus they're a bunch of racists over there. I'm assuming it's because half of their island is a garbage dump.

[futurebird]

Ya'll are mean! and I'm having a hard time suppressing my laughter!

[enders_shadow]

Friend of mine is of the theory that Staten Island is really just a conspiracy of cartographers.

The SI ferry boats you around in circles and drops you off in NJ, telling you it's NY.

I like his theory. (though the bridge complicates it somewhat)

[chemchick]

And by bridge you mean parking lot, right? Because I don't know of very many bridges that charge you $12 to go 1 mph because every fifth person is driving into a barrier..

[enders_shadow]

Couldn't tell ya.
I'm one of the natives who doesn't have a drivers license, and I don't have any reason to go to SI

The one time I went was just cause it was a nice day, and a friend and I wanted to take the ferry--cause we hadn't and it's free, and we had to do something.

[futurebird]

LMAO!

[reflaxion]

Come on, be fair. It's only $11.

[futurebird]

Staten Island. You know I think they get a bad rap some of the time... But, yeah, there is a long history of tension between the more conservative suburban perspective of SI and the rest of the city.

"FUCK staten island."

...is more harsh that I'm willing to go. Every borough has issues.

[enders_shadow]

True--every borough has issues. But I'm from Brooklyn, so that borough gets a pass. I now live in Manhattan, and spent a good chunk of my childhood at a chess-shop in in the village (the one on Thompson street, right near Washing Sq park) so it gets a bill of approval. That leaves Queens/Bronx/SI

The craziest fucker I've met in NYC was in Queens (he told me and this is a direct quote: "I know Obama isn't a socialist...cause he's a communist!") and my buddies HS gf lived out there.

And between the Bronx and SI? FUCK staten island

[enasisabitch]

at least he knows you can't use the terms "socialist" and "communist" interchangeably

[enders_shadow]

but he clearly lacks an understanding of either