If someone shot your mum, then built a sniper tower overlooking her grave, would you be mad?
Anway, on to the news.
Some Muslims want to build a $100,000,000.00 mosque three blocks down from where the Twin Towers fell on 9/11. Some people are mad. Some people are mad at people for being mad. Some people are mad at those people for being stupid.
The Money: The money for the possible "project" is being provided by an unknown source. Hmm... I won't even eat a cookie from an unknown source let alone allow a humongous Islamic religious symbol be built on Ground Zero.
For the mosque: The freedom of religion argument. Is anybody being persecuted by the American government for being Muslim? No. Coddled, maybe. The hate argument. Yes. I do hate the MUSLIM extremists who killed thousands of people on 9/11. It is what it is. Keeping the Constitution alive, the very thing the terrorists tried to kill: Okay listen up. You can't rob a candy store and expect the owner to gve you the business rights to the place a few years later. That is not how it works. I understand very well that freedom of religion is a constitutional right. So is the right to protest. That is how I will choose to stretch ou the ol constitutional hamstrings.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, run FAR. I have the right to bear arms. And I'm not talking about Michelle Obama's giant bags of pudding."
Against the mosque: You can't put a mosque on Ground Zero. You just can't. It is wrong and disrespectful to the victims of 9/11 and the pride of the United States. You can't slaughter our citizens, then demand to have a victory symbol erected. It is a slap in the face to America. Maybe our penis of a president doesn't think so, but the citizens do. No, Osama Bin Laden is not building this with his blood sweat and tears (but how much would you love to see him bleed sweat and cry at the same time?). But it represents Islamic culture. Muslims have the right to worship at mosques. I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is a 13 story mosque. Is there really no other place to worship? The answer is yes.
If you are a citizen, then that makes you an American. It is your duty as an American to be an American first and a Muslim second (assuming you are Muslim). Any true American would understand that it would be a disgraceful thing to put a mosque three blocks away from the very place where thousands of innocent people died at the hands of Muslim terrorists. That is just how America is. We stand close by to each other in times of both trouble and celebration. We could not do so if it weren't for a mutual respect. Respect and subservience are two completely different things. The respectful and civil thing to do (that would really win bonus points for Islam in the eyes of America) would be to not build the mosque. There areplenty of other places to attend and build mosques in New York. All in all, America is a Christian nation. One nation under God. Like it or leave it. We as a population generally tend to embrace people of all religious backgrounds, which is awesome. But once again, if you can not respect this fact with dignity, then perhaps you are better suited to live in an Islamic nation like Iraq and not America.
God Bless the USA
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