The Ground Zero Mosque
New York Dolls is just one of the businesses being asked to allow a Mosque as their neighbor
First off, I want to go on record as saying that not every Muslim is a terrorist. Half the Muslims in this country are peaceful, patriotic, and love this country as much as anybody else. The problem we have is with the other half. I remember when I was a child growing up in the civil rights movement when there were marches and the spectre of integration, my dad would frequently tell me, “I have no problem with most black people. It’s just these uppity ones who aren’t happy with their own neighborhoods, they want to move into mine.” He really did love black people, but he wanted them to be sensitive to the effect that moving into a white neighborhood would have on property values and the neighborhood itself. He wouldn’t deny their right to move into our neighborhood, he just wanted them to be sensitive to our needs and be good neighbors by not moving into our neighborhood. It seems nowadays we are asking Muslims to do the same thing.
The events of 9/11 were horrific and remain forever on our national conscience. Putting a mosque of all things within 2 blocks of this site would be like building a federal cemetery on Robert E. Lee’s farm. Can you imagine how the South would react if we did that or put federal buildings along General Sherman’s path of destruction. Even as we triumphed over the Indians to claim America as our birthright, we would never build a tribute to our greatest Presidents on sacred Indian burial ground. Can’t the Muslims show the same restraint? Frankly, I’m still waiting for them to apologize to me for 9/11.
Now, defenders of so called freedom of religion point to the first amendment of the Constitution as proof that the Muslims have a right to build a community center on their own private property, but that’s not what the founding fathers wanted. You write a Constitution to protect your rights–not to protect the rights of people you don’t agree with. Our founding fathers to promise people freedom to choose their own faith, but they meant popular religions. Do you want to be a Baptist or a Southern Baptist? Take your pick.
New Yorkers don’t seem to be bothered by this potential terrorist training camp in their midst. Fortunately, the rest of the country has come forward to demand that peaceful Muslims refudiate this Mosque. Even Democrat Harry Reid weighed in against building the Mosque in this location. Nobody in this country knows more about where new construction is tasteful than Las Vegas’ own Senator. I have to wonder how
Ok, I had to ask. Is this site for real? Because it is complete B.S. How could anyone buy into it? I bet only 1% of the people reading this site could tell me the names of the 9/11 terrorists (without googling them right now and pretending they already knew). Wake up. What about all the civilians we’ve killed in Iraq? And then we go in and force our interests on them? I’d say that’s worse than building a site of worship.
Patrick O'Malley
August 16, 2010 at 10:18 pm
This is very exciting. Patrick has demonstrated a new variation on what I have dubbed the Sobchak Syndrome (yr not wrong, yr just an a-hole). This is “You’re not wrong, you’re just humorless.” What to call it? This needs a name.
highnumber
August 16, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Nate, sometimes you are just too generous of spirit. You’re like a winning team with a lopsided margin of victory just coasting along to spare the feelings of the losers. I say this because you don’t take advantage of all the ammunition available to back up your position (which, admittedly, is alrady very strong).
For example the Department of Defense was careful not to crash any aircraft (not just airliners, but any aircraft) into Baghdad near the site of what has now become the US embassy there. That’s just one more example of US tact and sensitivity. Is the world paying attention?
Mr. O’Malley’s challenge turned out to be quite interesting. I was pretty sure there was a Mohammed and an Abdulla, maybe several. So I googled the list. It turns out they all had last names too so technically I didn’t get even one of them right.
In the process I found out two interesting things.
In Wikipedia they are listed simply as Hijackers rather than Islamofascist Terrorist Hijackers so if you’re ever wondering about the credibility of Wikipedia think about that!
Once I saw that I narrowed my search to Conservapedia and they don’t even mention the names of the terrorists. Maybe that tells you all you need to know about how important that list is.
So now it’s your turn Mr. O’Malley. What are the names of all these civilians supposedly killed in Iraq, without Googling? If that’s too hard then how about the list of all the people who supposedly killed them – without Googling?
You can post the list at Conservapedia.
maruda
August 17, 2010 at 10:51 am
Nate, this is a family oriented website. Why would you allow “Patrick O’Malley” (if that’s his real name) post here? He’s clearly on the side of the Taliban. He knows all the names of the terrorists from 9/11 without looking them up. Nobody would know that kind of information unless they idolize those terrorists. It’s a shame when these terrorists start using fine Irish names like O’Malley to fool the public into believing their extremist opinions.
wrecksracer
August 18, 2010 at 6:09 am
I don’t think a terrorist idolizer would necessarily know all 19 names, but a terrorist would!!!!!
Have we learned nothing from the recent Stalinist Russian infiltration of New Jersey?
Islamofascist terrorsists must be banned from this blog!
steve
August 18, 2010 at 8:39 am
High Number – Are you a doctor?
Maruda – Definite evidence of liberal Wikipedia bias we all know about.
Wrecks – Hmm, O’Malley has some real explaining to do…if that’s his real name.
thatsrightnate
August 19, 2010 at 5:26 pm