Posted on 08/18/2010 11:03:36 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
It is hard to imagine that anything has gone unsaid about the so-called Ground Zero mosque, but an important point seems to be missing.
The mosque should be built precisely because we don't like the idea very much. We don't need constitutional protections to be agreeable, after all.
This point surpasses even all the obvious reasons for allowing the mosque, principally that there's no law against it. Precluding any such law, we let people worship when and where they please. That it hurts some people's feelings is, well, irrelevant in a nation of laws. And, really, don't we want to keep it that way?
Confession: I would prefer that the mosque not be built so close to the ground where nearly 3,000 innocent souls perished. That's my personal feeling, especially as I imagine the suffering of so many families whose loved ones died in the conflagration.
But why do so many Americans feel this way? The answer is inherent in the question. Feeling is emotion, which isn't necessarily bad, but it bears watching.
Reason tells us something else: The Muslims who want to build this mosque didn't fly airplanes into skyscrapers. They don't support terrorism. By what understanding do we assign guilt to all for the actions of a relative few?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Amazing the *&^*(&^, who DAILY remind the great unwashed masses as to the need to be enlightened as to the FEELINGS of others, is preaching the right to inflict pain on victims of HATE.
Exactly. Those people died on 9-11 because their constitutionally legal and innocent presence at the World Trade Center offended certain Muslims, namely Bin Ladin and his cohorts. We owe opposition to this to them, to those who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan and to those still in danger’s way there and here.
Kathleen Parker is the biggest idiot of all.
This issue is becoming extremely annoying. The constitution says we have a right to freedom of religion. It does not say we have to care about “feelings”.
So here’s my shake.
Let them build the damn Mosque... we can then surround the Mosque with a Temple, A Catholic Church, a Super Church, Morman, Baptist ..Luthran... EVERY Christian faith. Christian Bookstores etc... You fight fire with fire!
Let’s start passing the collection plate now to purchase the other buildings around there...we may beat them to the punch.
The guy that posted this article this morning got
ZOTTED.
“...The Muslims who want to build this mosque...don’t support terrorism.”
They don’t Kathleen Pseudocon? They sure haven’t done a very good job of condemning it:
—”The imam behind plans to build a controversial Ground Zero mosque yesterday refused to describe Hamas as a terrorist organization.
According to the State Department’s assessment, “Hamas terrorists, especially those in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, have conducted many attacks, including large-scale suicide bombings, against Israeli civilian and military targets.”
Asked if he agreed with the State Department’s assessment, Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf told WABC radio, “Look, I’m not a politician.
“The issue of terrorism is a very complex question,” he told interviewer Aaron Klein...
Asked again for his opinion on Hamas, an exasperated Rauf wouldn’t budge.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/imam_terror_error_efmizkHuBUaVnfuQcrcabL
Kathleen Parker-ugh.
Yeah?
Why can't a teacher have a Bible on his or her desk because it's "offensive" to some angry liberal?
Why can't a pre-school have red and green decorations at a "holiday" party without being accused of being offensive by some parent who expects everyone to conform to their demands regardless of what the majority wants?
It's just another example of customary liberal hypocrisy for them to claim "religious freedom" on this issue, when they seek out opportunities to stand firmly against Christian religious freedom in the most petty ways imaginable.
Her reasoning has failed her. A simple search of some of the key agitators reveals exactly the opposite.
“The mosque should be built precisely because we don’t like the idea very much.”
What she really means is that NORMAL Americans don’t like the idea very much.
Parker and her buds like the idea very much indeed.
Eat your peas, Americans. Your rulers know what’s best for you.
“Let them build the damn Mosque... we can then surround the Mosque with a Temple, A Catholic Church, a Super Church, Morman, Baptist ..Luthran... EVERY Christian faith. Christian Bookstores etc... You fight fire with fire!”
Problem with that. An existing Orthodox Church that was destroyed in 911 cannot get permits to rebuild—this is not a matter of religious neutrality. The authorities in NY have decided a Muslim mosque should be forced down peoples throats.
A Christian bookstore would never get permits, being filled with hate speech. Christians demonstrating would be arrested for hate speech. So would Mormans.
See if you can find Kathleen Parker in this wonderful post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2572791/posts
Kathleen Parker must walk through her daily life wearing blinders.
"We let people worship when and where they please"???
Really? Hmmmm. Seems that I've read about many lawsuits that have resulted in the curtailment of the individual right to freedom of religion.
That it hurts some people's feelings is, well, irrelevant in a nation of laws.
Really?? Kathleen must not pay much attention to the realities of the liberal morons in this country. They function first and foremost on "feelings". Logic is not involved in their decision making.
Madam Parker:
You have ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF that the persons who wish to build this mosque do not have bad things in mind for the American people.
You are drinking a massive amount of Kool Aid.
Believing anyone who wants Sharia Law inside the USA is reason enought to not believe them.
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