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The New York Post reports Miss USA, Rima Fikih who hopes to be the next Miss Universe says move the mosque. She is more eloquent than that of course.. Rima Fikih told entertainment "I totally agree with President Obama with the statement on constitutional rights of freedom of religion," the beauty queen said in an interview with "Inside Edition" that aired yesterday.
"I totally agree with President Obama with the statement on constitutional rights of freedom of religion," the beauty queen said in an interview with "Inside Edition" that aired yesterday.
I also agree that it shouldn't be so close to the World Trade Center. We should be more concerned with the tragedy than religion."
My thoughts...
My thoughts...
Americans overwhelmingly agree in religious freedom but this is about an open massive wound -- literally the WTC site were even recently body parts were found recently and loved ones are not near closure and still hoping for DNA, something more...
The other issue who funding and any terrorist groups linked to this mosque or any mosque here in the USA clearly are not welcome
If you want to build bridges, educate and heal why would you inflict so much pain which is clearly what that people behind the mosque intend hiding behind anti-Muslim which is not true. The Mosques all over the downtown area including the East Village have not been victims of hate related to 9-11 that I am aware of .
Why would any religious group want to build where they know they are causing immense pain to loved ones that have overwhelmingly made it clear this is not the place...at least not now.
you are one stupid person!
ReplyDeleteThank you so are you.
ReplyDeleteOh except my name isn't anonymous so you proved a point I was not even trying to make.
ReplyDeleteThis is a local issue. You people don't even live in that neighborhood. Honestly the traction this story has gained is beyond comprehension.
ReplyDeleteThis pretty much sums it up.
http://daryllang.com/blog/4421
I normally do not approve anonymous comments, but that one seemed harmless. As to Ira's comment, in an Internet age, there's no such thing as a local issue.
ReplyDeleteI do not think stupid is a harmless comment but it is interesting that creeps don't like the treatment returned to them. We saw it first hand, you could smell the death and destruction for months to come...people told me they could smell it in our States neighboring NY as well. Downtown is an open wound still not even near competition and in terms of mourning loved ones it is even more an open wound. That cowardly comment is lower than stupid and for the future don't approve them. Thanks, Suzannah
ReplyDeleteto Zennie's comment:
ReplyDeleteDue to the national attention it's received, isn't a local issue. I'll concede that.
To Suzannah: That comment says a lot more about the person who left it than it does about you.
I was coming out of the subway at 6th Ave. and W.4th St. around 9am that day, I watched the towers burn down before my eyes. I smelled the smell that lingered for at least two months. But honestly, they're not building the thing ON Ground Zero.
Did you even look at that link I posted?
http://daryllang.com/blog/4421
This is what it is:
http://www.park51.org/faq.htm
I'm not the most eloquent writer, but I think Christopher Hitchens nailed it:
"So for the sake of peace and quiet, why not have Comedy Central censor itself or the entire U.S. press refuse to show the Danish cartoons? This kind of capitulation needs to be fought consistently. But here is exactly how not to resist it. 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. It has also infected the editorial pages of the normally tougher-minded Weekly Standard, which called on President Obama to denounce the Cordoba House on the grounds that a 3-to-1 majority of Americans allegedly find it "offensive."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!Nothing could be more foreign to the spirit and letter of the First Amendment or the principle of the "wall of separation." In his incoherent statement, Foxman made the suggestion that it might be all right if the Cordoba House was built "a mile away." He appears to be unaware that an old building at the site is already housing overflow from the nearby Masjid al-Farah mosque."
It's also pretty wild to see Ron Paul and Keith Olbermann agreeing on something.