Comments on: A case against ground zero mosque http://www.semanticoverload.com/2010/08/24/a-case-against-ground-zero-mosque/ The world through my prisms Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:46:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Patrix http://www.semanticoverload.com/2010/08/24/a-case-against-ground-zero-mosque/#comment-457 Patrix Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:02:30 +0000 http://www.semanticoverload.com/?p=713#comment-457 Does Moonjungle think that the mosque is being built *on* Ground Zero? #facepalm

]]> By: Semantic Overload http://www.semanticoverload.com/2010/08/24/a-case-against-ground-zero-mosque/#comment-455 Semantic Overload Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:57:26 +0000 http://www.semanticoverload.com/?p=713#comment-455 @Moonjungle The only real solution to all this crap is to abolish religion. Too bad that the best solutions are the hardest to implement :)

]]> By: Moonjungle http://www.semanticoverload.com/2010/08/24/a-case-against-ground-zero-mosque/#comment-454 Moonjungle Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:46:04 +0000 http://www.semanticoverload.com/?p=713#comment-454 They should just build a memorial at ground zero and get on with it

]]> By: Patrix http://www.semanticoverload.com/2010/08/24/a-case-against-ground-zero-mosque/#comment-453 Patrix Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:41:39 +0000 http://www.semanticoverload.com/?p=713#comment-453 Well, they may have been aware of any local backlash but I doubt anyone expected a national outrage over something so innocuous. Even Laura Ingraham of all people had lauded their efforts of being a peaceful center in December 2009. Of course, she has since backtracked. But you are right, its all politics. It always is.

]]> By: Semantic Overload http://www.semanticoverload.com/2010/08/24/a-case-against-ground-zero-mosque/#comment-452 Semantic Overload Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:38:04 +0000 http://www.semanticoverload.com/?p=713#comment-452 That’s not my point at all. I am not against building a mosque any more than I am against building a church there. But one cannot ignore the catch-22 situation US could potentially find itself with this issue.
I agree with you that the Right’s opposition is ludicrous, and they have no business making such noise. I also agree that the right build Park51 is indisputable. However, given the Right’s predictable Islamophobia and predictable response, on what basis can it be claimed that it is unreasonable to wonder if it was a deliberate ploy by radical Islamic organizations to use the Right as a pawn and place US in this political lose-lose situation?

I have a hard time believing that “they had no idea there would be opposition to it”. I content that backers of Park51 were aware of possible backlash and went ahead with it. Now as for the intent of doing that might well be benign. But if it is not, and I do not claim that it is not, then one must admit that it indeed is a good politics.

]]> By: Patrix http://www.semanticoverload.com/2010/08/24/a-case-against-ground-zero-mosque/#comment-451 Patrix Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:58:35 +0000 http://www.semanticoverload.com/?p=713#comment-451 You’re right. The black people shouldn’t have asked to sit up front in the bus. Needless provocation. Wait! what…this is not the 60s. My apologies.

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