I know I just back, but I won’t have time to blog tomorrow, so here’s a post on the controversy of the day.
The big mosque within the perimeter of 9/11 destruction.
It sucks. I am appalled that anyone would think in any context that this is any better of an idea than opening up a militia training center in the heart of Oklahoma City.
See – you just cringed at the thought didn’t you? And the thing is – no self respecting militia of any sort would ever think to do that out of respect for the folks of Oklahoma City.
Yet here you have a moderate Muslim thinking in his head that opening up a mosque/community center/education area right near the heart or ground zero.
Can you equate the 9/11 hijackers with all Muslims? Of course not. Not any more than you can equate people interested in militia training to Timothy McVeigh.
Am I or are most people (70% who are against the mosque) calling for a government takeover of the land to tell the guy what he can/can’t do with it? No, not necessarily. However – I applaud those who continue to complain.
Yes – property rights, blah, blah….but before that is free speech. Yell, complain, heckle, write letters, harass the heck out of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and maybe he’ll change his mind. What kind of community center would people go to where there is a 24 hour protest around the building – forever.
I doubt he’ll change his mind and I bet the thing will be built and people who are not racist, or religionist or antireligionist, or antiMuslim will be hurt to their souls having to look at it all the time.
I hope the protests keep up and I hope the dude never gets money for this thing.
