Merged Obama enters GZ Mosque debate

[johnny karate]

You have your burner set too high. You reduced the contents to hot air. Actually, Akbar Ahmed said Muslim leaders should be more sympathetic to the sensitivities of New Yorkers (whether they be oversensitive or not) to the fallout from 911.

Or here's another idea: Maybe we can be a nation of laws, and not a nation of irrational and arbitrary "sensitivities".

And what about the "sensitivities" of Muslim-Americans who must suffer persecutions like this because someone else decided their "sensitivities" were more important?

Or is it only the "sensitivities" of certain people that count?

Being oversensitive nine years later to how the terrorists on 911 acted on behalf of Islamic Fundamentalism may be difficult for Rauf to comprehend, but it surely isn't a reaction stepped in 'bigotry."

Of course it is. Rauf had nothing to do with 9/11. To associate him or Park51 with 9/11 just because he is a Muslim is nothing but bigotry.

Otherwise, New Yorkers would be channeling this supposed unrestrained 'bigotry" against the existing 11 or more mosques currently in Manhattan.

Yeah, because if there's one thing bigotry is is rational.

And it's not like the Right Wing media completely ginned this thing up, right?

And it's not like there have been incidences of Islamophobia across the country in the wake of the Park51 controversy, right?

No, you go on pretending this is just an isolated incident that has nothing to with bigotry, and is just all about "sensitivities". Just don't forget to feign indignation and hurl insults when someone points out how full of crap you are.

 

[leftysergeant]

And what about the "sensitivities" of Muslim-Americans who must suffer persecutions like this because someone else decided their "sensitivities" were more important?

Or is it only the "sensitivities" of certain people that count?

To me, the sensitivities of ignorant, beligerent, bigotted clods matter fat less trhan do the sensitivities of a group of devoutly religious people who would, given the opportunity, contribute to our education and encourage ways to peacefully co-exist with people of differing faiths.

And it's not like there have been incidences of Islamophobia across the country in the wake of the Park51 controversy, right?

Letting slime like Breitbart and Geller prevail gives aid and comfort to domestic enemies of the constitution.

 

[Taarkin]

"As a matter of forums security, JREF has no practical way to distinguish between the majority of peace-loving Park51 opponents and the minority who see it as their god-given mission to kill "the Muslims." Nor do we have the resources, quite frankly, to spend a lot more time trying to distinguish between them."

 

[GrouchoMarxist]

"As a matter of forums security, JREF has no practical way to distinguish between the majority of peace-loving Park51 opponents and the minority who see it as their god-given mission to kill "the Muslims." Nor do we have the resources, quite frankly, to spend a lot more time trying to distinguish between them."

That doesn't make any sense.
Maybe you should go back to the "bigotry/ignorance/pandering" thing.

 

[Taarkin]

It's based on a quote that Cicero agrees with, of course it doesn't make any sense.

 

[Taarkin]

Correction to the above: Cicero may or may not agree with that quote (he has repeatedly refused to answer), but he does somehow think it is evidence for his point.