Young Muslim Worries About Coming Here to Pursue His Dream

[tapati]

Interesting response to the Cracked article 3 Reasons the "Ground Zero Mosque" Debate Makes No Sense

Hello there infidel Americans! I bring word from the land of curved swords, all white fashions, camel toes and drug induced promises of numerous virgin women to frack for an eternity

Comments

[stephanieb]

Totally agree with your last point. This is what always drives me nuts about prejudice--it's such a waste. Prejudice deprives us all by preventing people from using their gifts and talents.

Good for him for eloquently spelling out the obvious to the hard-of-thinking: there's no one group of people that corners the market on evil, and most people in any group are just people trying to do the best they can by themselves and their loved ones. Most Muslims aren't suicide bombers; most evangelical Christians don't picket funerals or blow up women's clinics; most Mormons don't practice blood atonement, etc.

As to the mosque controversy, I'm a flaming atheist who lost a relative in the Twin Towers and I have no problem with a mosque near the site (it's not even that near, in terms of city geography. Cities by definition cram an awful lot of stuff into a relatively small space. Everything is near to everything else. Pretty much any kind of house of worship, business, or institution you could think of could probably be found within the radius around the Twin Towers site that contains the proposed community center/mosque.)