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The Ground ZOT mosque must be built!!!!
The Washington Post ^
| 8/18/10
| Kathleen Parker
Posted on 08/18/2010 6:30:21 AM PDT by detritus
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?...
...[T]he more compelling point is that mosque opponents may lose by winning. Radical Muslims have set cities afire because their feelings were hurt. When a Muslim murdered filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam, it was because his feelings were hurt. Ditto the Muslims who rioted about cartoons depicting the image of Muhammad and sent frightened doodlers into hiding...
This is why plans for the mosque near Ground Zero should be allowed to proceed, if that's what these Muslims want. We teach tolerance by being tolerant. We can't insist that our freedom of speech allows us to draw cartoons or produce plays that Muslims find offensive and then demand that they be more sensitive to our feelings....
Nobody ever said freedom would be easy. We are challenged every day to reconcile what is allowable and what is acceptable. Compromise, though sometimes maddening, is part of the bargain. We let the Ku Klux Klan march, not because we agree with them but because they have a right to display their hideous ignorance.
Ultimately, when sensitivity becomes a cudgel against lawful expressions of speech or religious belief--or disbelief--we all lose.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
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To: Monkey Face
The Firm is now considered ‘classic’ rock.
Yikes...
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09/30/2010 5:48:31 PM PDT
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Darksheare
(I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
To: Darksheare
1,582
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09/30/2010 5:53:35 PM PDT
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Monkey Face
(Pray like everything is up to God and work like everything is up to you.)
To: Monkey Face
1,583
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09/30/2010 5:54:19 PM PDT
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Darksheare
(I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
To: Monkey Face; ColdOne; libertarian27; Cyber Liberty; Sparko; The Flying Dutchman; grey_whiskers; ...
It's Moving Day. The movers have been called and are on their way.
1,584
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09/30/2010 5:54:27 PM PDT
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sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: sionnsar
Awaiting locational disjunction.
1,585
posted on
09/30/2010 5:58:29 PM PDT
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Darksheare
(I shook hands with Sheryl Crow and all I got was Typhus and a single sheet of toilet paper.)
1,586
posted on
09/30/2010 5:58:30 PM PDT
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sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: Monkey Face; ColdOne; libertarian27; Cyber Liberty; Sparko; The Flying Dutchman; grey_whiskers; ...
| MOVE IMPENDING |
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09/30/2010 5:59:29 PM PDT
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sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: Monkey Face
Got your toothbrush packed?
1,588
posted on
09/30/2010 6:00:14 PM PDT
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sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: Monkey Face; ColdOne; libertarian27; Cyber Liberty; Sparko; The Flying Dutchman; grey_whiskers; ...
Uh oh.
1,589
posted on
09/30/2010 6:01:34 PM PDT
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sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: Monkey Face; ColdOne; libertarian27; Cyber Liberty; Sparko; The Flying Dutchman; grey_whiskers; ...
This is the END of the
Spawn of the Undead Thread: The September Chronicles
Join us at
Spawn of the Undead Thread: The October Chronicles redux
1,590
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09/30/2010 6:04:16 PM PDT
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sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: sionnsar
Yep!
Got the chocolate chip cookies, this time, too!
1,591
posted on
09/30/2010 6:49:39 PM PDT
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Monkey Face
(Pray like everything is up to God and work like everything is up to you.)
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