Saturday - August 14, 2010

AT GROUND ZERO …. IS THIS A CASE OF A MOSQUE WHOSE TIME HAS COME?

In a free country, I believe folks have a god given right to be stupid without being arrested for it.  Unless that is, their stupidity causes harm or danger to others.
Being being just plain silly is another right everyone has.  And I suppose being insensitive to others should not be thought of as a crime. 
Now then ... Brit papers have been covering the angst and anger with regard to a muslim center along with an attached mosque, or perhaps it’s just a room in a building, to be built near ground zero in N.Y.

I think if muslims own the property, and they apparently do, they have a right to do whatever the heck they want to do with property they paid for. They have that right in law.  But it’s quite insensitive and inconsiderate to go ahead with that project.  The idea of a muslim anything in or within miles of ground zero, I find intolerable.  But they have the right.  If they have the brains god gave a tennis ball, they would realize how Americans might feel about their plans to build a mosque there.  So the right to be stupid also comes into play here. 

I’ve heard any number of ppl say that on 9/11, there were muslims who also were killed but who go ignored.  In fact, there were quite a large number of them killed that day.  There were even some who were members of fire and police depts and deaths among them too.  I acknowledge that and btw, some were actually Americans but members of the ROP.  We can not hold that against them.  BUT ....  Somehow deep inside I still do not approve of people exercising their right to be insensitive in this particular case.

Sometimes, some things are beyond the pale.  Sometimes, people should not be allowed to exercise a right in so sensitive an area.  Or a right to do stupid things.
Someone didn’t think this one through.

Or, Maybe they did.

Barack Obama’s Ground Zero mosque plea will cost him and the Democrats votes

President Barack Obama’s intervention in the row over the Ground Zero mosque plan will cost the Democrats votes, argues William Lowther in Washington

by William Lowther in Washington

By charging headlong into the ferocious controversy over the plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero, President Barack Obama may have further damaged Democratic Party prospects in the upcoming mid-term elections.

For while his return to the soaring rhetoric that won him the White House in the first place will be popular with hard-core liberal supporters, it is unlikely to capture the hearts of middle-America this year.

According to the NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, 52 per cent of Americans disapprove of Mr Obama’s handling of the economy; 45 per cent disapprove of his handling of the Afghanistan war; 40 per cent say the country is worse off since he became president.

Mr Obama has lost the political high ground and on the mosque issue - where emotions are far more likely than logic to win the argument - his stand will not go down well at the voting booths in November.

THE MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO

Posted by peiper     on 08/14/2010 at 09:46 AM   
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