Isn’t this one, in New York, one too many?
It says a lot about where we’ve come as a country that a mosque at Ground Zero is even being considered. That our PRESIDENT should support it should be a shock as it clarifies just how far we’ve fallen.
Their permit should be denied. Let them sue for 30 years about it. I don’t care.
You know my thoughts on Muslims. They should be seen on TV in OTHER countries. Not here. While they are a religion, of sorts, they are also a government, and as such should not be permitted into the US except under strictly monitored conditions. You know, bring in the oil, put it here, now get the hell out.
Sure, most of them are fine people, that just want to work, raise families, and so forth. BUT they bring with them crazies, and they don’t seem to have the cajones to call the crazies out of their communities. So any gathering of them is a risk, and I’d submit, a risk we need not accept.
Say “Ma’a Salaama” to you Muslim community. Enjoy screwing up other countries, we’ve decided the meager benefits your culture provides aren’t worth the dramatic risks you pose.
August 16th, 2010 at 6:40 am
We are a country of law where permits can only be denied for good cause within the prescribed reasons. And religion cannot one of those reasons. If a Protestant church could be built there, a Muslim worship place cannot be denied.
All you have to do is get the USG to make a law that Muslim is a culture and not a religion. Then you wait for the Supreme Court to declare the law invalid.
Meanwhile, you promote the xenophobic idea that Muslims are bad for America and should be denied entry. We did that ineffectively for Irish, Italians, Jews, Chinese, etc
August 16th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
If you think that Sharia law isn’t dangerous than I humbly recommend you move to a country that implements it for a few years.
August 16th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Sharia law is certainly not what we subscribe to, which is why we don’t have it here. It’s irrelevant to us. Church law in Europe and Britain was similar which is why we barred it in our Constitution. Attend a performance of Miller’s “The Crucible” to get a view of some of our better-than-sharia early American “law”
Our rule of law does well at neutering natural tendencies of any power group – for example, white men in America, nobility in Europe, and all men in sharia lands – to rule by self-serving fiat. Although it took us two centuries of struggle after the Constitution to get to the democratic system we have now.
Our Constitution doesn’t allow us to act against anyone for what they believe. As long as they obey our laws, they can have any kind of worship they want wherever any other religion can worship. Not on the courthouse lawn. We do ban extremes like virgin or random sacrifice, or execution for heresy. When it comes to physical punishment that results in physical harm, we probably require the free consent of the punished. I haven’t seen any cases being decided on that question.
August 17th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
I don’t care if they build it or not, NY’ers get the kind of city and government they deserve by putting the rats in charge. It does bother me that anyone should have to jump through so many hoops to do anything in this city and most others. I’m also not for or against gay marriage- I’m against the government being in the marriage business at all. Its all a scheme to fleece the citiznes. The Beatles suck but they were on the money in “Taxman”. The government will tax the air at some point.
August 17th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Xenophobic? Ha…
Constitution? That quaint document. The one you think should be “interpreted” to mean whatever the hell abstractist liberal elistist think it should be?
Muslims are dangerous. Ask England, Netherlands, or France how the growth of Muslims in their countries is working out.
This is patently obvious. Fools and those who really wish America harm don’t see it.