This is just disgusting

[John200]

A terrorist religion at ground zero.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/06/new.york.ground.zero.mosque/?hpt=T3

I'm Canadian ,but I feel for the victims of the 911 attacks.

PC madness must end for the good of the world.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The article that you linked to is actually about a bunch of bigots protesting the construction of a Mosque in New York. Hopefully, they will be sent scurrying back to their little Talk Radio shows and tinfoil-hatted websites. This is America, after all, where we have religious freedom and do not practice guilt by association.

 

[sidious618]

A terrorist religion?



Oh, brother, some people.

 

[gturner]

Hey, it's not like they're building a Shinto shrine next to the USS Arizona Memorial or a mosque on the Temple Mount.

 

[John200]

Yes they have no right to be against building a place of worship for a religion on a place that terrorists used as an excuse to begin the worst terrorist attack in history.

Yes we just have to let them do what ever the hell they want.

 

[Amaris]

A terrorist religion at ground zero.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/06/new.york.ground.zero.mosque/?hpt=T3

I'm Canadian ,but I feel for the victims of the 911 attacks.

PC madness must end for the good of the world.

Why do you state that you're Canadian?
Why do you call Islam a terrorist religion without doing the same for Christianity and Judaism?
Why do you make note of PC madness when you link an article that is about protesting a Mosque?

I am curious as to your answers.

 

[Roshi]

Boo fucking hoo, cry me a fucking river!

 

[John200]

Well with stating that I'm a Canadian I figured I'd just let people know that this is an outsiders perspective ,and not a party line.

And I think all organised religion is a major problem ,and we need to stop this gang mentality.

And they should leave well enough alone and build that Mosque anywhere else but ground zero.

It's called respect.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Ever wonder how many Muslim workers died in the Twin Towers?

(About 60)

 

[sojourner]

Well with stating that I'm a Canadian I figured I'd just let people know that this is an outsiders perspective ,and not a party line.

And I think all organised religion is a major problem ,and we need to stop this gang mentality.

And they should leave well enough alone and build that Mosque anywhere else but ground zero.

It's called respect.

Line 2 and line 3 seem to contradict each other.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Well with stating that I'm a Canadian I figured I'd just let people know that this is an outsiders perspective ,and not a party line.

And I think all organised religion is a major problem ,and we need to stop this gang mentality.

What if the article was about a church? Would you as a Canadian condemn that too? Of course, you wouldn't want to say that about if it was a synagogue for fear of being accused of anti-semitism.

If you are really against organised religion, would you really have the same attitude if it was any other religion? Or is it a specific beef against Islam that you have?

And they should leave well enough alone and build that Mosque anywhere else but ground zero.

It's called respect.

Respect works in several directions, not just one way.

 

[John200]

All the victims family's know is that people who were following Muslim ideals killed their loved ones.

And now they want to build a Mosque on that area.

That is the bottom line my Socialist friends.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

And they should leave well enough alone and build that Mosque anywhere else but ground zero.

Has Ground Zero expanded to include places two blocks away and down a street parallel to the site now?

It's on 51 Park Place. We gots to keep those evul Muslins from takin' over all our Monopoly properties and setting up hotels. Soon the rent will be outrageous! It's called respect.

 

[Amaris]

Well with stating that I'm a Canadian I figured I'd just let people know that this is an outsiders perspective ,and not a party line.

I just found it interesting that you explicitly stated that you were Canadian.

And I think all organised religion is a major problem ,and we need to stop this gang mentality.

It's not the religion itself, it's the fanaticism that can occur in religion. Fanaticism doesn't need religion to be extremist. In general, religion is merely used as a cover for extremism. If it were not religion, it would simply be something else.

And they should leave well enough alone and build that Mosque anywhere else but ground zero.

It's called respect.

The Mosque is not being built a Ground Zero. The Mosque is being built several blocks away. What you're suggesting is that because some Muslim fanatics attacked the World Trade Center, that these regular, practicing Muslims shouldn't be able to build their place of worship nearby. You equate one with the other without distinction. It would seem you have just as much a problem with respect as those you are decrying.

 

[thestrangequark]

All the victims family's know is that people who were following Muslim ideals killed their loved ones.

Only the moronic ones. The rest of us -- and I am speaking as the friend of victims and their families, and as some one who was only a few blocks away from the WTC that day -- know that it was a very small group of fundamentalists who had warped Islam to suit their violent agenda. We're not so stupid as to think that all Muslims are evil or that a building a mosque in the vicinity of round zero is somehow disrespectful.

 

[Lonemagpie]

All the victims family's know is that people who were following Muslim ideals killed their loved ones.

Only the moronic ones. The rest of us -- and I am speaking as the friend of victims and their families, and as some one who was only a few blocks away from the WTC that day -- know that it was a very small group of fundamentalists who had warped Islam to suit their violent agenda. We're not so stupid as to think that all Muslims are evil or that a building a mosque in the vicinity of round zero is somehow disrespectful.

Some moron asks "Why do you hate America?" in 3, 2, 1...

 

[Cornholio]

I'm just waiting for One World Trade Center to be completed.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

All the victims family's know is that people who were following Muslim ideals killed their loved ones.

And now they want to build a Mosque on that area.

Here's how I see things.

The extremists who committed the atrocities in New York City and Washington in 2001 were those who used Islam to preach their own agenda of hatred of the West. Now, that has painted a unique picture there. One that people in the West recognise, and (in the most uneducated cases) cannot see past. This then leads to the hatred against Muslims that some people seem to express, describing every action of even the moderate majority of Muslims as "evil" and "disrespectful" to the memories of those who died. Even those simply trying to construct a place to meet other Muslims and worship together (which, as several have stated, is not "on" Ground Zero") in peace.

Tell me - have you ever spoken to a Muslim or been in contact with one before? Are they all disrespectful terror-loving imperialists trying to islamify America?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Deimos Anomaly already did a thread on this, anyway.

 

[John Picard]

The article that you linked to is actually about a bunch of bigots protesting the construction of a Mosque in New York. Hopefully, they will be sent scurrying back to their little Talk Radio shows and tinfoil-hatted websites. This is America, after all, where we have religious freedom and do not practice guilt by association.

Depending on where one is in America, there is a freedom of religion so long as it's Christian as "that's what the Founding Fathers were"

Try being an atheist or agnostic in Oklahoma some time. It's a real treat.