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Ground zero mosque

astrojax69

02:47 / 23.08.10

can better informed 'lithers tell me why the concept of a mosque somewhere near 'ground zero' is such a contentious issue? don't people, even victims and their relatives, realise that it wasn't actually a religion that perpetrated the twin towers calamity, rather insane radical lunatics, who are not endorsed by mainstream islam?

or am i missing something?

Spatula Clarke

21:58 / 23.08.10

Yes.

People - on all sides - are fucking stupid. Have we not learned this yet?

Unencumbered

16:58 / 24.08.10

There's an excellent article by Charlie Brooker here. If he's got his facts straight, the so-called ground-zero mosque isn't a mosque and isn't all that near ground-zero.

Tsuga

23:40 / 24.08.10

People - on all sides - are fucking stupid.

I think it would be hard to argue that people on one side are not much more stupid. What's worse is that side is in the majority. Again.

Eek! A Freek!

20:55 / 27.08.10

Would someone please build a church or a Christian Community Centre close to the site of the old Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building so I can have something to protest?

wicker woman

05:20 / 01.10.10

Or a Catholic church near any abortion clinic, for that matter.

Dead Megatron

20:05 / 08.10.10

My answer to that, however stupid it may be, is "If there was a mosque on the World Trade Center to begin with, the buildings would still be there"...

DM, a number of the people whose lives were finished (by, let's face it, a set of silly adolescents) on 9/11 were of Islamic origin.

Dead Megatron

14:21 / 11.10.10

Yeah, I know! Stupid isn't it? The argument I pointed out above was purposedly ironic and stupid, to highlight the humongous stupidity of the whole thing. (ironic, but not funny, I should add).

As for the muslim prayer room on the article linked by Tsuga, I didn't know about it. But it only makes the whole thing even more stupid.

None of what I said is meant to diminish the tragedy of 9-11. Only to state that it was tragical AND stupid...