In the last couple of days, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and John Boehner have all compared the burning of the Koran by Pastor Jones to the building of the Islamic Center two blocks from Ground Zero saying that both are bad ideas.
To equate these two things as both being "bad ideas" is completely ridiculous and unbelievably offensive. How these three people and their supporters think that the malicious act of burning a religious text is anywhere near the construction of a place for people to gather in play, study and worship is beyond me. I don't get it. Anyone care to fill me in on what I am missing?
I've written quite a bit on here about my prejudice against Muslim men but I have to say that the backlash to the building of the center in New York has shown me how truly awful this bias is and has more or less extinguished it. There were around 60 AMERICANS of Islamic faith that died on 9-11 and they have every right to grieve and pray at Ground Zero, near Ground Zero, or anywhere else for that matter.
We must show ourselves to be a more tolerant and accepting nation. It was not Muslims that attacked us on 9-11...it was a collection of psychotics that twisted Muslim faith into something it is clearly not. If we continue protesting the building of this community center, we reveal ourselves to be no better than them...succumbing to intolerance, hate, anger, and fear.
Our country is better than this and we have much bigger problems (see: our economy) to tackle than this garbage.
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"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" will leave us all blind and unable to chew.
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-koran-burning-coverage-turns-out-that-fox-news-had-it-right/
It isn't the right that has been pushing this.
How these three people and their supporters think that the malicious act of burning a religious text is anywhere near the construction of a place for people to gather in play, study and worship is beyond me. I don't get it. Anyone care to fill me in on what I am missing?
So using this logic, if, say, Pat Buchanan wanted to build a cathedral and community center... two blocks away from Abu Ghraib prison... you'd support him in that, right?
Personally I think if the owner "wants to open a dialogue" as he claims, he should put a building on that site that yes, is a mosque... and a cathedral.... and a synagogue.
Talk is cheap.
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