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@stuckbit, please realize that what you see with regards to cheering are often staged & rarely represent view of most ppl.
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When will my fellow USAmericans finally grok this simple analogy?: Al-Qaeda is to Islam as the Ku Klux Klan is to Christian Protestantism.
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@bkuhn Many many do grok it. When will people stop painting a country with 300+ million people with 1(or 2) brush(es).
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@bkuhn That analogy would be better (though still imperfect) if you added 'in 1950'.
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@sdanna, the fact USAmericans are treating issue of Mosque placement as a different question than Protestant Church placement == #disturbing
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@webmaven,all analogies are imperfect;But mentioning Al-Qaeda in debate where Mosques go :: mentioning KKK in discussion of church placement
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@bkuhn My point was not that those people are right, but that many are on your side of this issue, they just aren't the loudest sometimes.
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@bkuhn Yup. Close enough.
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Would someone protest building a Protestant church near a KKK lynching site in !NYC? If not, why are ppl protesting Mosque near Ground Zero?
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@sdanna, I think I get your pt. My pt is that we're far from sanity as USAmericans b/c debate is treated as if it's a sane one to have.
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@bkuhn I know! They are both evil!!! No Chruches, No Mosques, No Gods... real freedom :)
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@bkuhn Even assuming it's a mosque. Which it's not.
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@webmink, Agreed,but frankly,I think they *should* just put mosques & churches *at* Ground Zero. There's been no progress on memorial anyway
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@threethirty: In my gut I agree, but intolerance is intolerance, and your remark is not tolerant either!
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@bkuhn They're proposing a mall, so kind of like a church...
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@mfoetsch,the mall:Church for capitalists! Heck,I'm an atheist & I don't care where places of worship are built;Why should anyone else care?
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How many Muslins live in that area? Not many. This is a purely political ploy. No to the "victory mosque" !
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@bkuhn I agree, but I think the really issue here is that neither Al-Qaeda nor anyone else has been proven to attack the US on 9/11.
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@osamak, I agree we can never confirm affiliations of dead suicide bombers, of course,but AFAIK Al-Qaeda leadership did actively take credit
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@patdavila The US loves to flaunt its self as the Epitome of freedom.. Not always the case.
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@bkuhn AFAICR, Bin Ladn said "we will do something similar to 9/11" (which they can never do!), but I don't think he has ever admitted it.
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@patdavila How many exactly? You appear to have the numbers.
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@osamak,there're sources that indicate Al-Qaeda took public credit for 2001-09-11 attacks,but it's true Bin Laden himself didn't take credit
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@osamak, but anyway, the bigger & #disturbing problem we've here in USA is that far too many ppl associate Islam w/ terrorism irrationally.
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@bkuhn should be on the SAT
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@bkuhn: you know, it's a good sign that there's still a people out there, in the USA, that think like you
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@youknowwhoxzy, I think the reason I'm so upset is that in !NYC itself, this kind of cultural double-standard doesn't occur as much.
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@mfoetsch There's not a lot of residential space in that area. I'd be shocked if > 50
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@alisonchaiken: trolling is a art
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@patdavila Not a lot? Tribeca popul. 26k, SoHo (within 1mi) pop. 29k, Lower East Side (1.2mi) pop. 89k, West Village (1.5mi) pop. 72k, ...
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@bkuhn Part of the reason they care is b/c they are misinformed (not merely uninformed but deliberately(?) misinformed)
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@bigbrovar Freedom? That was over 200 years ago now. The US is a corporatocracy in this day and age. Some people just don't realize that yet
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@mfoetsch In NYC terms that's pretty far away from where the place is going up. This is purely a political thing to anger people
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@patdavila Apparently, there is already a mosque 4 blocks away from Ground Zero.
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@gadgetwisdom Good for them then don't need another
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@patdavila My neighborhood has a glut of houses of worship that have replaced businesses I used to patronize.
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@patdavila I'm not sure being inconsiderate of your neighbors is illegal. If it was, I'd have my neighor arrested.
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@threethirty I'm sorry if you think I was trolling but I believe that hating churches, or anything, is still hate even tho I'm atheist!
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@alisonchaiken you should really stop taking everything so seriously. My original post was a joke (& some trolling).
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@patdavila The problem is not the Mosque. The problem is the attitude. Deep rooted intolerance for Islam which is not healthy for the USA
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@jargon I'm very familiar with NYC. I lived there for 25 years. In fact I know several people that were killed by 9/11 attacks. Do you?
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@fabsh Mosque thing looks like bigotry; but it also is Islam being treated as I'd like to see all religion treated: as plague. It's a start.
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@joshix LOL. I wish they'd start with Christianity though. Those superior-feeling fuckers have it coming...
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@fabsh Agreed, but I'll take what I can get. All their ancient holy texts should be re-titled "when we were retards"
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@joshix LOL! Awesome.... :D
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@bkuhn Essentially you're right, though KKK didn't kill as many, especially not at once: ~1900 people in 100+ years. http://bit.ly/a2LaE2
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@richslxh Yeah,those Muslims, with their geometry and their al jabr. We dont want none 'o that!
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@richslxh oh, in the interests of full disclosure, I'm snarking WITH you, not AT you ^_^
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@threethirty You're making the fundamental attribution error. She missed your snark this time; she may not always. ~_^
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@patdavila When one is ignorant on a subject it's wise not to express an opinion on it. You are embarrassing us Americans...
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@bkuhn Certain religious doctrines encourage more fundamentalism than others. You don't hear about Buddhist suicide bombers.
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@stuckbit also,what cheering? Here,~nobody supports them. Anti-war,pro-peace != pro-any-unknown-group (just like the US peace groups' view!)
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@rahulsundaram but they have been known to set themselves on fire on a busy street.
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@moggers87 Slight difference between that and blowing up buildings, I think :-)
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