tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post5950195779385077897..comments2023-10-09T04:11:47.358-07:00Comments on Not A Potted Plant: The Manufacture Of A ControversyBurt Likkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-52028883972292889342010-08-17T19:12:26.248-07:002010-08-17T19:12:26.248-07:00Mike, there's some pretty horrifying stuff in ...Mike, there's some pretty horrifying stuff in the Bible, you may recall.<br /><br />If we're going to play the game of "everybody who disagrees with me is a doomed sheep," then it's the Jews who are freaking out about an Islamic community center who are following that piper. We have a very long history of exactly how Jews get treated, particularly by Christians, when the government does not protect minority religions and take an officially neutral stance toward religion.mythagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138471078836187498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-51220166668136964892010-08-17T17:22:53.988-07:002010-08-17T17:22:53.988-07:00I wrote on this one today too. It's mazing how...<i>I wrote on this one today too. It's mazing how this issue has been warped by the headlines. Half of the comments I received were along the lines of, "I thought it was much closer and an actual mosque."</i><br /><br />That was kind of my reaction as I started learning more about it weeks ago. I guess in the end I fall somewhere between the first and second category... not good to do things that will make people angry if you can avoid it and this was avoidable, but ultimately it's a local issue and if the people of NYC don't object I don't know why I should from way out here and even if they do object as long as it is in accordance with the law I'm not sure on what basis it should be stopped.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-49384294076061637922010-08-17T15:36:34.703-07:002010-08-17T15:36:34.703-07:00I wrote on this one today too. It's mazing how...I wrote on this one today too. It's mazing how this issue has been warped by the headlines. Half of the comments I received were along the lines of, "I thought it was much closer and an actual mosque."Mike Dwyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00741136015944133141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-59728514549683575172010-08-17T14:38:58.338-07:002010-08-17T14:38:58.338-07:00mythago,
the history of idiots marching as sheep ...mythago,<br /><br />the history of idiots marching as sheep to their own destruction at the tune of the Pied Piper of Political Correctness is well documented.<br /><br />Anyone who's studied Islam in depth, and has any soul and conscience, cannot help but be horrified at what they find in the mad ravings of the 7th century pedophile.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03466940518082972363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-26853776277678883512010-08-17T12:36:57.031-07:002010-08-17T12:36:57.031-07:00And yet, Jews are not rising up in protest against...And yet, Jews are not rising up in protest against the mosque. In response to the ADL, JStreet submitted ten thousand signatures in support. Maybe they just need Mike to explain the history of dhimmitude?mythagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138471078836187498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-49047233454364421302010-08-17T11:34:26.467-07:002010-08-17T11:34:26.467-07:00It is impossible to treat the "Muslim Ummah&q...It is impossible to treat the "Muslim Ummah" as anything other than a group.<br /><br />It is equally pointless to try to claim that Hamas's proclamation has no weight, when they are part of the same organization to which "Imam Rauf" belongs and from which much of his funding for the Ground Zero Mosque has come.<br /><br />Also equally dishonest has been the claim that "Cordoba House" is a commemoration of some grand time in the past when Christians, Jews, and Muslims all lived in harmony. The historical record is far more clear: Cordoba was the site of one of the Muslim "Khalifa" states, a murdering Islamist crew who burned down churches and planted mosques in their places, and derived most of their income from regularly raiding the neighboring Christian territories, while the remaining Christians and Jews in the area were subject to the most brutal of <i>shari'a</i> maltreatment as slave-class "citizens."<br /><br />The requirement of Jews to wear "distinguishing marks" didn't appear in Europe again until the National Socialist Party in Germany allied itself with the Grand Mufti.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03466940518082972363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-37794393443779296312010-08-17T11:02:51.647-07:002010-08-17T11:02:51.647-07:00Left wing media, like Laura Ingarham on Fox?
An...Left wing media, like Laura Ingarham on Fox? <br /><br />And I've said before that I don't give a damn what Hamas or some other dirtbag thinks. I'm at a loss to understand why you do.Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-17366954919708068242010-08-17T09:44:50.801-07:002010-08-17T09:44:50.801-07:00Also - your article isn't Slate, it's Salo...Also - your article isn't Slate, it's Salon. Neither of them really helps your case, though, since neither is anything but a quack-wackery website these days.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03466940518082972363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-33706452385671284232010-08-17T08:57:54.921-07:002010-08-17T08:57:54.921-07:00Sigh.
I don't know which to go after: your na...Sigh.<br /><br />I don't know which to go after: your naivete, or your misrepresentations.<br /><br />I pointed out previously to you the history of Islam in planting mosques on the sites of their crimes/victories.<br /><br />The documentation of the Mosque's ties to terrorist groups are strong, and getting stronger by the day. The connection of the Mosque's leader to terrorist groups is just as strong. His refusal to condemn Hamas as a terrorist group is unsurprising given his Muslim Brotherhood funding ties, just as it's unsurprising that Hamas last night announced their complete endorsement of the project as a victory for Islam and their barbaric <i>Shari'a law</i>.<br /><br />Also, the "Mosque right on top of two blocks from Ground Zero", as you call it, is an interesting case. Airplane parts and body parts of the victims of Islam landed on the building that day. It is involved in the site and events - perhaps not as much as the Twin Towers and other WTC complex buildings themselves, but still involved.<br /><br />As for your claim that it's a "manufactured controversy" - I beg to differ. The only thing "manufactured" about it is the fact that the left-wing media cartels were dragged, kicking and screaming, into actually noticing that yes, a large number of people have a problem with building a Mosque in that place, find it insensitive and wrong, and are waking up to the larger problem that Islam is not a classical "religion" but rather a religiopolitical supremacist group.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03466940518082972363noreply@blogger.com