Posted on 08/05/2010 2:35:38 AM PDT by Scanian
Mayor Bloomberg's latest defense of the Ground Zero mosque is passionate and detailed and, once again, com pletely unpersuasive. Worse, his recounting of old New York's history of religious intolerance comes off as a scurrilous attempt to tar mosque opponents with bigotry.
Reflexively accusing dissenters of prejudice is a tired and discredited trick, one especially unbecoming for any mayor of New York on this issue.
Calling the 9/11 attacks "an act of war" that left nearly 3,000 dead, including heroic first responders, Bloomberg declared, "We do not honor their lives by denying the very constitutional rights they died protecting."
Hooey and phooey. Nobody is denying anybody's constitutional rights, and hijacking 9/11 to defend a mosque turns reality on its head.
Muslims freely and openly practice their religion throughout the five boroughs, a point reinforced by the decision of the Landmarks Preservation Commission to allow demolition of the existing buildings on the site.
The mosque battle, as I have argued, is a simple matter of location, a land-use controversy writ in raw emotion. The question is not whether there should be another mosque in New York. It's whether one is appropriate on this site.
The mayor's stance recalls his initial support for putting the 9/11 mastermind on trial a few blocks away. "It is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center site, where so many New Yorkers were murdered," he said before switching sides.
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Who gives a crap what this ass hat Bloomberg says about anything.
Sanctimonious puke tries tell us what and how to eat, changes the laws of N.Y. to bend to his convenience, and tells us we are NOT to have a problem with the moosie bastards putting up one of their halls of hate near ground zero.
Were he not rich he’d have people kicking sand in his face.
Does anyone wonder whether money and/or corruption has entered into the politics of this? To condone this kind of injury to the heart and soul of America just cannot be understand strictly on the basis of pure “political correctness.” Other things have to be going on.
It was not 9/11's victims & 1st responders who died to put a mosque at ground zero... it was the Muslims terrorist in the planes who died to put a mosque there. And we do honor those terrorist by allowing a mosque there.
It was the Muslims terrorist in the planes who died to put a mosque there, and we honor those terrorist by allowing a mosque there.
That is a great point, and bears repeating!
I wonder how many of the New Yorkers opposing this mosque also supported changing the law so Bloomberg to get his third term?
Degenerate Judas Mike “Capo” Bloomberg, can’t wait to start making up the lists of New Yorkers for the IslamoFascists to round up for the new “camps”.
In a free society, a democracy like America, the rights and liberties of all citizens should be protected and preserved by government at all levels; IN PARTICULAR, the rights and liberties, relgious rights and freedoms included, especially, of ALL legitimate minority representations.
But this cannot and should not necessarily ALWAYS be at the expense of the LARGER PUBLIC GOOD.
As I see it, THIS is the issue regarding the mosque!
If not wanting to defile the memories of 3,000 Americans on 9/11 makes me a bigot so be it. Muslims want a mosque...okay, just build it elsewhere....like Mecca, or some other place far away from where the World Trade towers once stood.
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