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'Ground Zero Mosque' Controversy Shows America's New Nativism (Elites say we're "know-nothings")
US News and World Report ^ | August 11, 2010 | Robert Schlesinger

Posted on 08/11/2010 2:32:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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I wonder when this POS will sell for $1, like Newsweek just did.
1 posted on 08/11/2010 2:32:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Saudis have been buying a stake in Western media.

The Saudis are also building the world largest clocktower and situating it in the world’s second tallest building. It just so happens to be in Mecca, a segregated city with a standing death penalty for any sub-human non-muslim who’d dare enter. AND they would like to make Mecca the new standard for time in the world.

No imperialist goals, my a&&.

Cordorba your New Mecca if you want, but don’t expect me to buy the lies about the motive.


2 posted on 08/11/2010 2:35:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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Certainly it's a provocative message, one that will incite rage in Osama bin Laden and his ilk. Interfaith tolerance and respect are the last things on their agenda. So why are the likes of Palin, Gingrich, and Giuliani taking up bin Laden's cause?

LOL

Adolph Hitler was a vegetarian and hated harming animals. Why do American vegetarians take up Hitler's cause?

3 posted on 08/11/2010 2:40:55 PM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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What garbage. I’d call 1 in 10 residents being here illegally, an invasion. Real Americans are sick of the class warfare being waged against them by the elites.


4 posted on 08/11/2010 2:42:40 PM PDT by freedomfiter2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gimme a break. Maybe the author is secretly relishing thte thought of being fitted for his man-burqa.

These people make me sick. BTW, I didn’t realize that the Muslims were ALREADY having their “prayers” at 51 Park.


5 posted on 08/11/2010 2:45:11 PM PDT by livius
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Islam is a religion which has its own laws, its own army and it own stated expansionist agenda. It treats non-believers as less-than-fully-human. Those who treat this as a freedom of religion issue are naive fools. Talk about your ‘know-nothings’.


6 posted on 08/11/2010 2:51:42 PM PDT by fhayek
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Nativism: only okay when Palestinians do it. And Atzlan.


7 posted on 08/11/2010 2:52:36 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (I can see November from my house.)
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Muslims build mosques to symbolize conquests and they have for centuries. Look at Hagia Sophia and the Temple of the Rock. The elites make assumptions based on their own ideologies rather than that of our enemies.


8 posted on 08/11/2010 2:52:53 PM PDT by JMS
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N A T I V I S T
and proud of it you globalist spouting peckerheads

what the hell is wrong with continuing to honor our
fellow citizens who were slaughtered on 09/11/2001
are we to welcome those whose culture honors those
who flew aircraft into our World Trade Center as if
we are only automotons unable to grasp
the world around us
NOT gonna happen

the day a synagogue is built facing Mecca is
the day I agree to a Mosque near ground zero

9 posted on 08/11/2010 2:54:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's not Rs vs Ds you dimwits. It's Cs vs Ls. Cut the crap & lets build for success, not failure.)
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The project is sponsored by the Cordoba Initiative, a group whose stated mission is to achieve an “atmosphere of interfaith tolerance and respect” among Muslims, Christians, and Jews.”

Well, if the Muslims say it’s about interfaith tolerance and respect, who on earth could challenge such a noble minded undertaking. After all, Muslims never lie especially when it comes to dealing with the infidel. That it’s all about understanding and respect is no doubt the reason they’ve chosen the name Cordoba, a name closely aligned with Muslim tolerance.

Schlesinger will make a dandy dhimmi.


10 posted on 08/11/2010 2:55:25 PM PDT by bereanway
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Tendentious.

Spare us your lectures.

Who decides what memorial is to be placed at Ground Zero? Us or foreigners?

How unifying is this if 65% of polled Americans want it out?

How sensitive are they to Americans if we told them we do not want it?

Why did their spiritual leader, Abdul Rauf, say that ‘America was an accessory’ to 9/11?

Blame the victim, blame America first. We need to hear that piece of spit tell us that 9/11 was our fault, and then he is going to lecture us on bigotry.

Why can’t he be honest about Hamas? Why can’t he be honest about the money?

If Rauf wants to help, go to Egypt, India, Sudan and Saudi Arabia and other places where Muslims collect and where they are murdering Christians, and teach them about diversity, we really don’t need you and your lectures in New York City. We invented diversity. You only eliminate it wherever you go.

How dare you come here, to this site and lecture us on bigotry and diversity. You have far more murderers killing under your banner whom you need to speak with, before building your “monument” here.

Don’t you have some women to stone today? Get the hell out of here!


11 posted on 08/11/2010 2:56:15 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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...the people who see racist boogeymen under every rock can’t possibly understand why a Mosque two blocks from Ground Zero would offend anyone.

Give me a break...


12 posted on 08/11/2010 2:57:03 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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More people stand against the Mosque than read that rag.

No worries.


13 posted on 08/11/2010 2:57:48 PM PDT by HonestConservative (Remember; You can't spell Mohammed without HAM.)
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Cluelessness, thy name is Robert Schlesinger.\
US News and World Report, another magazine they have to give away to keep up their circulation numbers.


14 posted on 08/11/2010 3:00:02 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Every election is like an advance auction sale of stolen goods"--H.L.Mencken)
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This screed appeared in USN&WR. Makes you wonder about USN&WR -- is Mort Zuckerman slipping?
15 posted on 08/11/2010 3:02:04 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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"'Ground Zero Mosque' Controversy Shows America's New Nativism (Elites say we're "know-nothings")"

Yeah, but we're well armed know-nothings, so they'd better watch their step.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

16 posted on 08/11/2010 3:03:42 PM PDT by wku man (Steel yourselves, patriots, and be ready. Won't be long now....)
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Muslims build mosques to symbolize conquests and they have for centuries. Look at Hagia Sophia and the Temple of the Rock.

Hagia Sophia was taken away from the Christians as an act of conquest, but it was built by the noble Justinian.

A better example of a "victory mosque" in Istanbul is the Blue Mosque. It was built on the scale of Hagia Sophia for exactly the reasons you cite.

17 posted on 08/11/2010 3:06:57 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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If the intention of Cordoba Project was interfaith co-operation, well, its too late for that. I am sure if they were serious, they could have avoided the publicity stunt.

On the other hand, exactly what radius would reduce this from being offensive to constitutionally permitted right. Rash statements would be none, nowhere, outside US, Saudi Arabia, hell, etc. But still, at exactly what distance would this stop being stab in the heart?

If these people are praying there now, then are they going to revamp the existing building to build a new mosque? Was it always there, and just getting publicity now?


18 posted on 08/11/2010 3:07:43 PM PDT by True_Kon
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To: lentulusgracchus

Thanks, I didn’t mean that they had built it - otherwise it would not be known as Hagia Sophia.


19 posted on 08/11/2010 3:10:20 PM PDT by JMS
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Dynamiting the minarets at Hagia Sophia....would be sooooo sweet.
20 posted on 08/11/2010 3:17:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
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