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Message 61 of 406 (574830)
08-18-2010 1:39 AM
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08-18-2010 1:23 AM


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Message 62 of 406 (574950)
08-18-2010 2:57 PM
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08-15-2010 8:47 AM


as in imposition on sacred ground.
If the ground is so "sacred" then why are we building commercial office space on it?
I want to say "I don't get the controversy", but I do get the controversy - it's a bunch of bullshit "think of the victims" meant to conceal anti-Muslim bigotry.
Don't get me wrong, I hate religion, and Islam as a religion has a lot of problems. Much of it stands in stark contrast to the principles I hold dear. But one of those principles is religious freedom, and that's a freedom I depend on in order to stay an atheist. You know who they come after, after they're done with the Muslims?
Us.

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Message 63 of 406 (574978)
08-18-2010 4:22 PM


If the City of New York denies the zoning approval sought for this site, it will blatantly violate [the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act] and expose the city to one whopping lawsuit that is extremely likely to succeed, as Chicago attorney Dan Lauber [4] told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet. "A federal law adopted by a Republican Congress makes the denial the Republicans seek blatantly illegal."
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New York Mayor Bloomberg writes:
The attack was an act of war and our first responders defended not only our city but also our country and our Constitution, he said, becoming slightly choked up at one point in his speech, which he delivered on Governors Island. We do not honor their lives by denying the very constitutional rights they died protecting. We honor their lives by defending those rights and the freedoms the terrorists attacked.
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Message 64 of 406 (574980)
08-18-2010 4:30 PM
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08-18-2010 4:22 PM


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New York Mayor Bloomberg writes:
The attack was an act of war and our first responders defended not only our city but also our country and our Constitution, he said, becoming slightly choked up at one point in his speech, which he delivered on Governors Island. We do not honor their lives by denying the very constitutional rights they died protecting. We honor their lives by defending those rights and the freedoms the terrorists attacked.
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Message 65 of 406 (574999)
08-18-2010 5:11 PM
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08-18-2010 4:30 PM


Beautiful! Thanks for finding that.
except a mayor cannot declare what is or isn't an act of war and the 'first responders were not defending anything, they were looking to help the injured.
talk about a major distortion of the facts

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Message 66 of 406 (575002)
08-18-2010 5:13 PM
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08-17-2010 12:06 PM


You do realize that arabs and muslims are not the same thing right?
ahh the nitpickers and over-literalists, where would we be without them?

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Message 67 of 406 (575022)
08-18-2010 5:57 PM
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08-18-2010 5:11 PM


archaeologist writes:
except a mayor cannot declare what is or isn't an act of war...
Anybody can recognize an act of war when they see one.
archaeologist writes:
... and the 'first responders were not defending anything, they were looking to help the injured.
Firefighters might not be pledged to protect our rights and freedoms but police are. Did you forget the police?

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Message 68 of 406 (575026)
08-18-2010 6:04 PM
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08-18-2010 5:11 PM


Your dumbfuckery knows no bounds, does it? Where does it say Mayor Bloomberg declared it an act of war? You do realize he wasn't even mayor at the time of the attack, right?

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Message 69 of 406 (575112)
08-18-2010 10:14 PM
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08-18-2010 5:13 PM


ahh the nitpickers and over-literalists, where would we be without them?
If it wasn't for people pointing out the facts, you'd still be just as wrong.
But at least you'd have some sort of an excuse for it.

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Message 70 of 406 (575116)
08-18-2010 10:25 PM
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08-18-2010 5:13 PM


ahh the nitpickers and over-literalists, where would we be without them?

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. -- Thomas Jefferson
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and non-believers. -- Barack Obama
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate

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Message 71 of 406 (575266)
08-19-2010 8:42 AM
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08-14-2010 4:17 PM


"onifire" writes:
Personally, I could care less if a mosque was built on ground zero. I don't think ground zero is anything more that a piece of property where something bad happened once. This personal attatchment to this piece of land as some kind of representation of freedom and America, to me, seems rather pointless.
I agree. We are being hypocrites if you ask me, expecting tolerance in Iraq, and Afghanistan, yet giving none here.
I mean there is a Mosque 4 blocks away already, and there is a non-denominational chapel in the Pentagon 80ft from where the plane crashed, and Muslims go there to pray.
I do sympathize with people though, not being able to distinguish the average Muslims from an extremest one. How are we to know the difference? They hide amongst themselves, and us too. But I don't think these people are Al-Quaeda, or the Taliban, looking to set up a place to pray next to ground zero. They probably are ashamed of terrorism.
I think we as Americans should embrace the idea, and show the rest of the world that we can just get along.

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Message 72 of 406 (575284)
08-19-2010 10:13 AM
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riVeRraT writes:
I think we as Americans should embrace the idea, and show the rest of the world that we can just get along.
I completely agree.

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Message 73 of 406 (575287)
08-19-2010 10:26 AM
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08-19-2010 8:42 AM


I think we as Americans should embrace the idea, and show the rest of the world that we can just get along.
Well here is one thing we agree on.

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Message 74 of 406 (575326)
08-19-2010 3:27 PM
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08-14-2010 4:17 PM


It's terrible what happened to those buildings, and worse what happened to the people in them. But that's it really.
I quite agree - can't say I'd feel the same way if I was more affected by the events of that day, but I hope I would.
Why the constant reminder of what happend that day and the treatment of this property as holy ground?
Mid-term elections, that's why. This isn't the only Muslim building being protested this summer, and I'm sure there were plenty of Muslim buildings erected between the time of 9/11 attacks and the beginning of summer, this year. Now that the story has gone national, it's perfect red meat to get the conservative base riled up & ready to vote in November. Fear & loathing are all the Republicans have to get their people to the polls. And it's working - voter enthusiasm is higher among the conservatives than it is for the liberal/progressive base.

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Message 75 of 406 (575379)
08-19-2010 6:45 PM
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08-15-2010 1:48 PM


Predictable answer, but it is a bit irrelevant.
Ask a muslim terrorist about his justification and he will say his religion
ask a catholic priest and he will not quote scripture (unless you can show me one that does).
Maybe the bible and christianity could be used to justify pedophilia by a very twisted mind, but as far as I know it isn't. So as I said, in my first post, the source for those priests actions isn't their religion. The same cannot be said for muslim terrorists.
Priests weren't a perfect analogy. A better on would be abortion clinic terrorists.
Ask an Islamic terrorist why he is a terrorist, and he'll usually refer to his religion (not always - many militants just don't like America dicking around in their back yard, especially when said dicking around involves dropping bombs and killing civilians).
Ask an abortion clinic terrorist why he's a terrorist, and he'l refer to his faith, too.
Clearly by the same logic that leads to banning mosques near Ground Zero, we should also ban churches near any medical facility that might possibly perform an abortion.
The whole thing is patently absurd on its face to anyone who actually thinks about it for a moment, and who legitimately values religious freedom.
Unfortunately, as is most often the case in America, it would seem that Constitutional rights only apply when one is defending one's own actions; freedom of religion obviously ceases to apply if you're the wrong religion.
It's not a "slap in the face." It's not a "victory mosque." It does function, intended or otherwise, as a test of America's true commitment to its professed ideals, just like the various tests of free speech. It's really, really easy to say you believe in the freedom to worship according to the dictates of your own conscience and to be free from discrimination based on the expression of that freedom when everybody's religion is the same, or at least enjoys public approval. It's easy to believe in the freedom to say what you want without legal consequence when everybody says the same things.
The Constitution rights we all claim to believe in and uphold were not made for the easy decisions. They were not made for the majority. They were made to protect unpopular minorities of faith and opinion. If you cannot build a building representative of an unpopular faith, then religious freedom does not actually exist. Freedom is, by definition, the ability to dissent from the majority, to be different from others.
This is America's biggest failure - the failure to actually stand up for what we say we believe in.

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