Accepting our differences will only make us stronger...
The last few weeks have been very interesting to watch from the sidelines. I'm not a political person. I'm more of a "get it done" kind of guy who gets annoyed when people can't put aside their differences and compromise to come to a decision. I am decidedly a liberal, so you can go ahead and hold that against me. And I'm an atheistic-leaning agnostic, just to get that out of the way.…
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26 - jeannie danna
STM,
Well, what the hell we have done the same to an entire nation of people.
Al-Qaeda and its offshoots have lumped all of us in the non-muslim West in the same category
There should be little surprise. We have demonized these people as long as I've been alive and it started way before then.
JD
27 - STM
zing: "moving it now, after all the controversy, would be a victory for radical islam".
Maybe. But it still doesn't alter the fact that it was a silly idea in the first place, which the imam has now admitted. The last quote I saw from him was along the lines of "If we knew how much controversy it would cause, we'd have put it somewhere else".
And honestly, you wouldn't have to be a rocket scientist to have worked that out. Seriously.
Like I say, rights go hand in hand with responsibility and respect. You can't now just look at the controversy this has caused and wash your hands of all responsibility.
And Jeannie, I don't agree. Moderate muslims haven't been demonised at all. Only the nutcases ... and they deserve to be demonised because that's exactly what they are.
We wouldn't even be having this discussion if they weren't engaged on a decades long path of mass murder.
The mosque could have been built near two skyscrapers that were still standing.
Everyone does remember what happened on 9/11, right?? ... and the subsequent bombings in London, Madrid, Bali, Moscow, Jakarta and the blown up airliners in Russia and all the foiled attempts, like the plot the British uncovered a couple of years ago in which al-Qaeda planned to blow up a whole shitload of airliners over the atlantic??
Don't make apologies for sick death cultists masquerading as muslims. Unfortunately, the death cultists have spoiled things for moderate muslims too.
That's not our fault.
28 - jeannie danna
STM,
You said:
Moderate muslims haven't been demonised at all. Only the nutcases ... and they deserve to be demonised because that's exactly what they are.
As far as I can tell it started in 1921. This stereotyping and demonizing of the Arabs and their culture began in Hollywood and has, as you can see, spread-out from there.
Don't make apologies for sick death cultists masquerading as muslims.
Yes, there are violent factions, but I refuse to throw the whole culture out because of fear.
Jeannie