Bigots oppose another NYC mosque

[Upchurch]

So, what you're saying is, most of the world's atrocities were committed by white people!

I think he's saying that some white people committed atrocities, therefore all white people are suspect of potentially committing atrocities.

 

[Thunder]

So, what you're saying is, most of the world's atrocities were committed by white people!

Spanish ain't white.

 

[C_Felix]

i'd like to see evidence that THIS mosque and its leadership, support the imposition of Sharia Law in the USA.

but guess what? even if they do, its religious freedom. The Tea Party remembers when religious freedom is, don't they?

folks have the right to be religious jerks. i don't see these folks fighting against nutcase Christian fundamentalists, just Muslims.

ALL Muslims.

Even if they do support Sharia Law, this is the US, and our laws trump everything.

If they try to stone a female because she showed her chin or something, then they should be arrested and charged with assault.

 

[Thunder]

Even if they do support Sharia Law, this is the US, and our laws trump everything.

If they try to stone a female because she showed her chin or something, then they should be arrested and charged with assault.

yup.

even if they practise a scummy religion, they still have the right to build a house of worship for their scummy faith, wherever they like.

this is America...not the USSR.

 

[EatatJoes]

What do the protesters wish to accomplish with their protesting? Are they lobbying the government to step in and stop the construction of the building? Do they hope that their protests will discourage those who wish to build the mosque to not build it?

 

[johnny karate]

Maybe when the muslims killed thousands and destroyed the most notable landmarks in New York after the statue of liberty. They received so much so much anti-USA and anti-infidel hatred that it is understandable that they would be suspicious.

The word you're looking for is "Islamophobia". Or if that's too much of a mouthful, "bigotry" should do, as it covers all manner of scary people it's okay to hate, whether they be the Muslims, the blacks, or the queers.

 

[Infoexcavator]

Spanish ain't white.

Why not. Are the people from southern France or Andorra white or something else?

All these racial groups are getting so confusing, even the spanish are now something else than caucasian and everyone has to have their own group. It's much simpler to just say Black, Asian, White, Indian, Mixed. Native americans are part of the Asian group.

 

[leftysergeant]

I do not consider anyone protesting the mosque to have any moral authority or right to be heard unless they have participated in attempts to bulldoze the Westboro Baptist Church.

That is a known threat to American values.

 

[quadraginta]

Why not. Are the people from southern France or Andorra white or something else?

All these racial groups are getting so confusing, even the spanish are now something else than caucasian and everyone has to have their own group. It's much simpler to just say Black, Asian, White, Indian, Mixed. Native americans are part of the Asian group.

"Simpler" would be to just quit trying to base judgements about people on irrelevant physical characteristics.

It's a moving target anyway. Iran and Turkey were once considered Aryan, as was Afghanistan. Try explaining that to a Tea Bagger. Did Catherine of Aragon suddenly become white when she became Queen of England? Or would Queen Mary I be racially mixed?

 

[Thunder]

Are they lobbying the government to step in and stop the construction of the building?

Do they hope that their protests will discourage those who wish to build the mosque to not build it?

yes.

and yes.

 

[INRM]

Fear mongering and crisis-exploitation depend on conflict. You can clearly figure why so many politicians are using this as a wedge-issue.

 

[T.A.M.]

Fear mongering and crisis-exploitation depend on conflict. You can clearly figure why so many politicians are using this as a wedge-issue.

Fear and conflict, unfortunately, keep people much more interested and "enthused" then laws and legislation. You even see it in the 2010 elections. The Republican Tea Party knows and exploits it, and the DEMs are now finding out the hard way.

TAM

 

[MattusMaximus]

Maybe when the muslims killed thousands and destroyed the most notable landmarks in New York after the statue of liberty. They received so much so much anti-USA and anti-infidel hatred that it is understandable that they would be suspicious.

Yup, and maybe when the Catholics stop raping all those little boys & girls in their churches we can stop protesting Catholicism for the thinly veiled pedophilia factory which we all know it to be.

 

[MattusMaximus]

Fear mongering and crisis-exploitation depend on conflict. You can clearly figure why so many politicians are using this as a wedge-issue.

Politicians figured out long ago that the best way to manipulate people is to treat them as the stupid, scared animals that they actually are.

Stimulus, response. It's nothing more complicated than that, sadly.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

No, you are mistaken. The Tea Party is about smaller government and less spending. The Tea Party is not at all about bigotry. So when high-ranking Tea Party officials and candidates are caught behaving in racist, homophobic, and Islamophobic ways, it's because they are really about smaller government and less spending and the liberal lame-stream media is just trying to smear them.

Or they are not spokespersons of the true Tea Party (or at least not true spokespersons of the Teat Party).

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

Even if they do support Sharia Law, this is the US, and our laws trump everything.

If they try to stone a female because she showed her chin or something, then they should be arrested and charged with assault.

And if they don't, they should enjoy the same assumption of innocence of any other law-abiding human.

They should also be granted their First Amendment right to the free practice of their religion.

 

[Earthborn]

when did New York City become the epicenter of anti-Muslim hatred?

I can give you the exact date, but frankly I think that date has been mentioned more than enough the past 9 years.

 

[Toontown]

It is truly heartwarming to see the change in the formerly radically anti-religious left. Heartwarming, I tell you.

For decades, the left has savaged Christianity without restraint, but now, all of a sudden, the left has found...religion. And the religion the left has found is...Islam.

Imagine that. How touched...er, I mean, how touching. Leftists and Islamists in bed. Together. Against the evil teabaggers. Just makes a guy want to break out in song...

Onward, leftist soldiers, marching as to war!
With the star of Islam going on before!
They will never blaspheme the good name of Allah!
Or draw cartoons of Mo-ham-mad or badmouth Muslim Law!

Onward, leftist soldiers, having seen the light!
For freedom of religion they will now fight the good fight!
They will never falter in their fight for Muslim rights!
And all you bigots must beware, they've got you in their sights!

Onward, leftist soldiers, marching as to war!
You might not be beheaded if you are a real good whore!
But I wouldn't count on it, and here's the reason why:
See that pile of stones there?
That's how all whores must die...

Sharia laaaaw...

 

[T.A.M.]

better to be a leftist standing up for any person, christian, jew, muslim, to practice as they choose, the to be bigoted right winger spouting that all muslims are terrorists, and forgetting the thousands "christians" killed in the name of their....god.

TAM

 

[DC]

Maybe when the muslims killed thousands and destroyed the most notable landmarks in New York after the statue of liberty. They received so much so much anti-USA and anti-infidel hatred that it is understandable that they would be suspicious.

pure bigotery