How many of them actually live in that neighborhood? (Which is called little Syria because of how many Muslims live there BTW)
Or that city?
Or even that state?
Or that city?
Or even that state?
Should we be like Saudis re Religious Freedom?
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Romney's Stand on Mosque (Courageous or Calculated?)
Romney's Stand on Mosque (Courageous or Calculated?)
Tricky Mitt: Romney's mosque calculations - Mitt Romney - Salon.com
Romney's Stand on Mosque (Courageous or Calculated?)
Tricky Mitt: Romney's mosque calculations - Mitt Romney - Salon.com
I agree. I always thought it was supposed to be us leading them to our freedoms, rather than moving towards their restrictions.
The moment we, as Americans, try to mimic Saudia Arabia in any fashion, it will be a momentous step toward the downfall of this great democracy, the United States of America. Remember the Roman Empire?
You know what I would like to see?
Politicians worrying half as much about CARING for 9-11 responders and victims as they do about this stupid mosque.
While they were distracting us with the whole mosque issue they voted DOWN a bill to help 9-11 responders.
A bill that was financed (so no deficit additions) by closing a tax loophole that lets foreign companies dodge taxes.
Politicians worrying half as much about CARING for 9-11 responders and victims as they do about this stupid mosque.
While they were distracting us with the whole mosque issue they voted DOWN a bill to help 9-11 responders.
A bill that was financed (so no deficit additions) by closing a tax loophole that lets foreign companies dodge taxes.
Christopher Hitchens has the most well-reasoned opinion on this I've heard yet. Nothing like Gingrich and Palin pretending to express my sentiments. Link to article here, and excerpts below:
The dispute over the "Ground Zero mosque" is an object lesson in how not to resist intolerance. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
...Take, for example, the widely publicized opinion of Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Supporting those relatives of the 9/11 victims who have opposed Cordoba House, he drew a crass analogy with the Final Solution and said that, like Holocaust survivors, "their anguish entitles them to positions that others would categorize as irrational or bigoted." This cracked tune has been taken up by Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, who additionally claim to be ventriloquizing the emotions of millions of Americans who did not suffer bereavement....
...Where to start with this part-pathetic and part-sinister appeal to demagogy? To begin with, it borrows straight from the playbook of Muslim cultural blackmail. Claim that something is "offensive," and it is as if the assertion itself has automatically become an argument. You are even allowed to admit, as does Foxman, that the ground for taking offense is "irrational and bigoted." But, hey?why think when you can just feel? The supposed "feelings" of the 9/11 relatives have already deprived us all of the opportunity to see the real-time footage of the attacks?a huge concession to the general dulling of what ought to be a sober and continuous memory of genuine outrage. Now extra privileges have to be awarded to an instant opinion-poll majority. Not only that, the president is urged to use his high office to decide questions of religious architecture! ...
The dispute over the "Ground Zero mosque" is an object lesson in how not to resist intolerance. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
...Take, for example, the widely publicized opinion of Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Supporting those relatives of the 9/11 victims who have opposed Cordoba House, he drew a crass analogy with the Final Solution and said that, like Holocaust survivors, "their anguish entitles them to positions that others would categorize as irrational or bigoted." This cracked tune has been taken up by Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, who additionally claim to be ventriloquizing the emotions of millions of Americans who did not suffer bereavement....
...Where to start with this part-pathetic and part-sinister appeal to demagogy? To begin with, it borrows straight from the playbook of Muslim cultural blackmail. Claim that something is "offensive," and it is as if the assertion itself has automatically become an argument. You are even allowed to admit, as does Foxman, that the ground for taking offense is "irrational and bigoted." But, hey?why think when you can just feel? The supposed "feelings" of the 9/11 relatives have already deprived us all of the opportunity to see the real-time footage of the attacks?a huge concession to the general dulling of what ought to be a sober and continuous memory of genuine outrage. Now extra privileges have to be awarded to an instant opinion-poll majority. Not only that, the president is urged to use his high office to decide questions of religious architecture! ...
Bill would have passed with a simple majority instead of a 2/3 (or if more than 12 Republicans voted for it), but they wanted to do it without amendments.
God forbid an illegal dying from rescuing people from the WTC gets health benefits.
Did Jon Stewart really say this? That statement in and of itself doesn't make much sense to me. I don't see our liberties as a higher standard or superior to Saudi Arabia, but I do see a separate set of standards.......I prefer our standards.