I haven't really watched the news in a while, but I was pretty much floored (hard to do on a treadmill) when I saw that a Mosque has actually been approved to be built in the vicinity of Ground Zero.
Seriously?
Now I've reviewed the arguments that argue for building the Mosque. The usual "this is America" and "land of the free", and "freedom of religion", and the "oh so Timothy McVeigh was a Christian, should we not build churches..." and BLAH BLAH BLAH.
The bottom line is this. Islam is a violent belief structure. They believe that if you're a non-believer, you either need to convert or die.
Uh oh! Here comes the "Oh, but what about the Crusades" or "What about the Inquisition?". Yeah, that was in the Middle ages. Christianity is no longer a belief structure of violence, and even the base idea of it is that Christians accept all manners of thoughts and beliefs (except you f**king Scientologists). Islam is STILL practicing a method of violence in their belief structure. Last time I checked, we don't have a Christian equivalent of "fatwa".
So now the claim is that this Mosque will "bridge the gap" between religions. Yeah, because building a religious temple at the site which was destroyed by ALL extremists from that religion will cure the disagreement that has been going on for thousands of years.
Sure. Way to go New York City. Nice to know even you "hard asses" would bend over and take it like that.
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I was somewhat intrigued by your post until I read you're British. I find it laughable at best in that you think that just building a Mosque next to the site of one of the largest tragedies in American history will prevent fundamentalists from succeed in their mission to crap on "the Great Devil". If the Muslims really wanted to enhance the communication between their religion and American society, they would, I dunno, maybe be a bit sensitive to the fact of 9/11, as well as understanding what history can show again and again, that as a culture, it's in our HUMAN NATURE to despite the tagged identity of attackers against US soil. Just because there is acceptance of viewpoints, doesn't mean we as Americans are REQUIRED to accept those viewpoints. It's honestly bleeding hearts like you that prevent our Armies (yes, both my AND your armies) from fighting our wars in such a manner that would end them quickly. My country, MY cultural smear in history, MY CALL. If you're going to cry, save it over something on your end of the world.
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