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lagilmanHas anyone else noticed that a lot of the "Oh Noes Mosque on Sacred Amurican Ground!" hysteria seems to come from people with a vested (or not so vested) interest in NYC -home of those danged liberals - not actually recovering, ever?
Because it seems to me "yay the real estate in the 5-block radius is coming back to finance-generating use!" is a much better response to the news than fear. Especially since I don't recall anyone saying anything similar about Catholic-based organizations around Oklahoma City...
For those coming in late: it's not a mosque, it's a Muslim community center (akin to a YMCA/YMHA), it's not on Ground Zero, it's two blocks away, which in NYC is Actual Distance, and I've yet to find any verified links suggesting the man who is spearheading all of this has ever condoned the attacks or been anything even remotely resembling the actual definition of a terrorist. If you can give me a legitimate source that says otherwise, sing out. But if you link me to Faux News or its ilk, I will scorn your ass into orbit.
[New Yorkers will also point out that the 'sacred ground' has more than its share of "gentlemen's clubs, (aka expensive strip joints)" tacky tourist shops, and the much-beloved-by-New Yorkers lunch trucks -- many of which are Halal trucks owned and operated by Muslims. Nobody seems to think that any of this is an insult to the memory of those who died...
Because it seems to me "yay the real estate in the 5-block radius is coming back to finance-generating use!" is a much better response to the news than fear. Especially since I don't recall anyone saying anything similar about Catholic-based organizations around Oklahoma City...
For those coming in late: it's not a mosque, it's a Muslim community center (akin to a YMCA/YMHA), it's not on Ground Zero, it's two blocks away, which in NYC is Actual Distance, and I've yet to find any verified links suggesting the man who is spearheading all of this has ever condoned the attacks or been anything even remotely resembling the actual definition of a terrorist. If you can give me a legitimate source that says otherwise, sing out. But if you link me to Faux News or its ilk, I will scorn your ass into orbit.
[New Yorkers will also point out that the 'sacred ground' has more than its share of "gentlemen's clubs, (aka expensive strip joints)" tacky tourist shops, and the much-beloved-by-New Yorkers lunch trucks -- many of which are Halal trucks owned and operated by Muslims. Nobody seems to think that any of this is an insult to the memory of those who died...
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Date: 2010-08-23 09:22 pm (UTC)* One is a Republican. No exceptions for line officers (ok, 7% or so); only doctors, nurses, chaplains, and lawyers were "allowed" to be liberal, and even then not so much. And along with that comes three decades of solicitations for the Republican Senatorial Campaign.
* One is xtian, and more particularly Protestant. Lots of fun with my ancestry and the Catholic school my spousal unit taught at... in what is probably the most bigoted SMSA in the US (Oklahoma City).
* One believes that the only enemy is the Soviet Union, and that paying attention to anything else was disloyal (except maybe — and only maybe — Germany, so that one could refer the farmers complaining about the tanks ruining the crops to the Public Affairs office).
* One believes that European governments are just a bunch of anti-American commies. (It wasn't the governments; it was the local, as opposed to national, media.)
* One believes that the Democratic Party is not only a bunch of long-haired hippie freaks, but the spawn of Satan. Or Stalin — take your pick.
* One enjoys eating babies. Well, ok, but ONLY at high tide, and with mint sauce.
And anything an officer says to disabuse anyone of those notions will be either (a) ignored or (b) the cause of a report to base security questioning one's loyalty.