The Ground ZOT mosque must be built!!!!

The Washington Post ^ | 8/18/10 | Kathleen Parker

[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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Detritus has gone bye-bye. The Undead Thread currently owns the thread but we will abandon it in a few days...

Welcome!

[Darksheare]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtYhYPXZxQ

An instrumental jaunt by the band Epica.

[Darksheare]

Yeah, I forgot about that, the 30th is fast approaching.

[Monkey Face]

We might get down to 75 tonight. That would be good. Although I don’t think I could leave my door open for a breeze because of the allergies.

*sigh* Irritants outside, irritants next door. :o[

[Monkey Face]

Two days away...OK...not quite.

Fall is pretty nice, here. By the end of next month we should be in the high 70’s for daytime temps and maybe high 50’s at night.

[ColdOne]

Mountains of Idaho, 6000ft

[Monkey Face]

Ohyah...now I remember...
Two things happen to you when you start to get older: 1. You tend to forget things, and I don’t remember what the other one was.

[ColdOne]

Ohyah...now I remember... Two things happen to you when you start to get older: 1. You tend to forget things, and I don’t remember what the other one was How true!

[Darksheare]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWXS1e3z7Tw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_FBvDhMCow

They seem to flow into each other when in Winamp player.

[Tax-chick]

I read a book about people in that part of the country recently. It's impressively remote.

[sionnsar]

Cooled off here. Actually turned the heat on in the car (no jacket). It’s beginning to feel like autumn.

[Darksheare]

Failed Rift zone lower NY roughly 545 feet or so above sea level.

[Monkey Face]

This time next week, we’ll have a low of 72...

[Monkey Face]

Dress for heat and A/C...

[sionnsar]

LOW of 72, oh well.

[HKMk23]

Nearly 5:00pm and the desktop widget still shows us at 102. A mite on the balmy side for late September...

[sionnsar]

I’ll say!

[ColdOne]

We are remote.

[ColdOne]

You get to see NY skyline at night?

[ColdOne]

Yeah, I forgot about that, the 30th is fast approaching. I did not read the fine print, what happens on the 30th?