tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661459584526509075.post1985472863921849951..comments2024-01-27T04:42:05.180-08:00Comments on Critical Narrative: Arab Electronic Newspaper Survey: 58% Against Building Ground Zero Mosqueyukio ngabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13132998741555231924noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661459584526509075.post-67634818487479654582010-09-21T16:29:57.439-07:002010-09-21T16:29:57.439-07:00But here's the thing, Yukio, the mosque was or...But here's the thing, Yukio, the mosque was originally called "Cordoba House." The mosque is supposed to be opened on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The mosque is, purportedly, to grow trust and understanding between the Muslim and Christian faiths, yet Christians are the ones, the only ones, who are expected to exhibit that trust and understanding. <br /><br />There is no doubt, none at all, in my mind that this is intended to be a triumphal mosque. Heck, even the imam whackjob who is heading the project has threatened the U. S. with Muslim violence if it's not allowed . . . . I know you talk a lot about Christian fundamentalism, but when did we hear of Christians threatening violence if their desires weren't met? What? The 12th century? 13th? <br /><br />You know what I do when someone mocks my God? I pray for them. I don't behead them with blunt knives and video it for the world to see. I don't chase them down and slaughter them in the streets to the cheering of my countrymen. I don't hang their burned and headless bodies from bridges. And I don't dance and sing songs of glee in the streets when we take down their people, their leaders. Indeed, I was horrified by the treatment of Saddam Hussein in the minutes before his hanging (which I could not bring myself to watch, though I have watched and been deeply and forever changed by the beheadings of American journalists, Jews, random contractors).<br /><br />Where, please, is the Christian equivalent? Where? In the abortion bombings in the '80's? Vile and repulsive as that was, Christians stood up and spoke out against that course of action. We condemned murder, and we condemned the murderers. Indeed, we sentenced most to death. But here's the deal: Islam requires Muslims to seek global domination by any means. If that is wrong, show me. Frankly, I'm just a little sick of indulging insane, misogynist, genocidal freaks. Particularly as my own religion has been deemed unworthy of Constitutional protection. <br /><br />Tell me, show me that Islam, that Sharia is not bent on global domination and the murder of non-Muslims. I want very much to know this, to believe it . . . but I don't. Show me that Islam is a religion and not a political ideology that wags the religious dog.Fuzzy Slippershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13021615731454709413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661459584526509075.post-41028413390802147582010-09-21T16:03:45.410-07:002010-09-21T16:03:45.410-07:00I wouldn't call 42% of the people who responde...I wouldn't call 42% of the people who respondeded to Elaph's poll jihadists. <br /><br />Just as the huge majority of people who don't support the GMZ aren't bigots, so too are the huge majorioty of people who do support it not jihadists. People can support the GMZ for a variety of reasons. I don't support it, but...<br /><br />Peronally, I find the poll numbers interesting because they illustrate the rather obvious silliness of both the American Left and Right's contentions that Arab-Muslims are a single, monolithically (is that even a word?) thinking group.yukio ngabyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13132998741555231924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661459584526509075.post-20391382916110975992010-09-21T14:00:55.687-07:002010-09-21T14:00:55.687-07:00Hmm, interesting. And of course this says far mor...Hmm, interesting. And of course this says far more about our leftist loon fringe media than it does about anything else. It seems that only they and actual jihadis want the mosque . . . hmmmmm.Fuzzy Slippershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13021615731454709413noreply@blogger.com