Bob Beckel: "At some point we are going to have to get over 9/11"
You hear that, New Yorkers? Bob says you need to get over it!
Posted on 08/20/2010 5:21:02 PM PDT by Kaslin
Ground Zero Mosque: A grass-roots movement among construction workers and unions asks Cordoba mosque supporters: Who do you expect to build it? The same people who built the World Trade Center perhaps?
In real estate, it's said the price of a property is based on three things — location, location, location. The price in blood and treasure America has paid for the gaping hole where the Twin Towers once stood is incalculable.
The wounds are still fresh and the anger is still real, and it's something that supporters of the Cordoba mosque, named after a great Islamic victory over the West, simply don't get.
Two blocks from the proposed mosque, construction workers at the WTC site are trying get across their point, and ours.
The towers of the World Trade Center instantly became symbols of America, its strength, its embrace of freedom and free markets. It was the pride of the workers who built it, destroyed in just hours by madmen who turned passenger jets into flaming cruise missiles.
William McCabe, 31, who lost an uncle on 9/11, used black marker to scrawl "WTC No Mosque" on the back of his neon construction vest in protest. "It's like spitting in the face of all the people that died," he told DNAinfo.com.
McCabe, who lives in Queens and has been working on Tower One for five months, said: "What they're going to be doing is praying and laughing because they got the mosque. My uncle's turning in his grave. It's a disgrace."
Mark Sabay, 48, of Brooklyn, who's been working on the site for two years, said a co-worker handed him a "No Mosque" sticker three days ago. He immediately affixed it to his hard hat.
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Not that I disagree with your view on this as a win-win, but in their screwed up culture, everything is win, and everything is contrued as justification for their next attack. There is no rational thinking in the Islamist culture. I am sure many view Obama election (a fellow Muslim continuing the evil policies of the west) as justification for attacks. Obama is the most Islam friendly person to ever run a western nation, but in their warped thinking it will justify violence.
No matter what we do as a nation, we will be justifying thrill next bombing or beheading. Screw ‘em.
And you cannot work on the booth yourself, the union people have to do it, because it’s their “job”.
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Rush Limbaugh has said that when he broadcasted out of his NYC studio, a union person had to switch on his mic. Rush could not do it because he was not in a (or the designated) union.
Not only that. Even if you are a union member, your job duties are strictly defined in your formal Job Description. If you try to perform a task that is not in your job category, you can have a grievance filed on you by the person whose job you are performing.
I just thought of it- Barack Hussein Obama (mmm mmm mmm) may be intentionally tanking the economy BECAUSE he wants the Muslim Victory Mosque built, and the only way he can is to have 20% effective unemployment.
It’s yours - glad you like it.
And your point is?
The enemy is not attempting to "Americanize" Islam.
Islam is all about Islamizing Americans, either subjugating Americans to the will of Allah and giving them "Peace" or destroying the infidels.
Mosque not built = "A great insult to Islam! Infidels must die!"
Mosque built = "A great victory for Islam! Infidels must die!"
Mosque built and then vandalized/burnt/destroyed = "Sacrilege! The blasphemers have insulted a HOLY shrine to a great Islamic victory! Infidels must die!'
This is what Taqqiya is all about.
What’s really crazy is that in the face of all this anti-Muslimism, we continue to spend what?—$100 billion or so a year to fight two wars to help the Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan find a better way of life.
Don’t that beat all?
I can even remember a big bunch of Freepers who claimed that the O should be impeached if he didn’t follow McChrystal’s recommendation that US forces be increased by 40,000 men.
Do we hate the Muslims or not?
If we hate them, why are we still spending our blood and treasure to help them?
"'Ground Zero' imam on Mideast tour to make Islam 'Americanized'"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2575060/posts
Rom 1:25-26
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. Amen.26 Because of this, God gave them over....
NIV
"who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time; "
"...the insertion [of Jesus Christ] was rejected by the great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination."
-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom
As far as some talking head telling us to get over Sept. 11 ... it’s going to take a long, long time.
I’m in my 40s but my parents told me all about Pearl Harbor.
My kids remember Sept. 11.
Forget, H***!
I wouldn’t bet on the trade unions’ “solidarity” on this one; they’ll have no trouble finding guys to build the mosque.
Boy this is going to make Bloomberg cry like a little whiny bitch again.
Same here.
9/11 is so seared into my mind and yet I did not know anyone who died on that fateful day.
What a leftie and traitorous scum! I assume he will not get over Salvador Allende getting overthrown or Kent State Massacre.
closed shop doesn’t mean you have to be a member of the union, but if you are in a job represented by unions, you have to pay part of the dues
You are absolutely correct that in their sick, twisted, minds just our very existence is reason enough to attack us. Our denying them their ‘friendly, bridge-building, outreach cultural center’ gives them something concrete (no pun intended)to point to. Especially to all those Americans who feel we deserve what we get for being horrible to other countries.
Good on you! Of the 15 bucks/hour you loose in salary, how much will you gain in tax deductions and no union dues? Might be surprising...
In my short stint working for the county government, I was stunned by the amount of dues deducted. WOrked part-time- dues were same as full-time! It’s really highway robbery.
Well I think that back in the day, unions werent all that bad, until the Dems started infiltrating them and demanding janitors get paid 25/hr for pushing brooms.
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