so about that mosque at ground zero.....

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  • FiveB247x
    FiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    I rather enjoy how so many Americans try and say ground zero is such hollowed ground and we owe it to victims and families and our national pride or some other misguided rhetoric. Everyone loves the nation and is such a wonderful patriot, except when it comes to being a good participatory citizen and doesn't enable foreign wars, corporations which undermine ourselves, and little other things like providing soldiers with necessary equipment or even basic necessities for fellow citizens. But yes, let's immortalize a spot of land which will be manipulated for economic and political gain and ignore the real meaning of the attack or our response to it. It really means so much people... the next time we can’t scream innocence and ignorance; for the next time it will be on us.

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    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    I agree with the view (proposed by some Muslims, as well as others) that an interfaith chapel be built there, open to members of all faiths. These individuals are arguing that this would be more sensitive and would be a way to avoid riling up people, while at the same time permitting Muslims to pray nearby, which is indeed important from freedom of worship and tolerance perspectives.

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