those analogies aren't very good.

Muslim-Americans deserve to have a prayer/community center wherever they choose to build one. Don't forget that they were also vicitimized by 9/11.

Muslim-Americans deserve to have a prayer/community center wherever they choose to build one. Don't forget that they were also vicitimized by 9/11.

While i disagree with the assertion that his supposed affiliation with Christian Identity contributed to his decision to bomb the Murrah building (I think it was 99% pissed offedness over Waco and other events in his life), you do have to wonder...

If Christian Identity's ideals were a key contributor in McVeigh's decision to bomb the building, and on April 19th, 2004, a Christian Community Center were set to break ground two blocks from that site, would anyone have any objections whatsoever about it being hallowed ground?

Not a fucking chance in hell.

Holy fucking fuck...Boyes couldn't suck a dick if it landed in his mouth.

those analogies aren't very good.

Why Isn't the Pentagon Mosque on the Front Page? There's a small chance you have heard about a plan to build a mosque near (not "at") Ground Zero in New York. The controversy is puzzling on many levels, most important, that this is America! Freedom must not be an empty concept. Freedom of religion means freedom of religion. The basic bargain of the First Amendment, as regards speech as well as faith, is that the sole way to protect the right to opinions and beliefs is to protect all opinions and all beliefs, keeping government out of the business of deciding which ones we like or don't like.

The people who attacked the United States on 9-11 may have called themselves Muslims, though clearly were breaking the tenets of their faith. All religions have produced a few murderous fanatics -- we don't hold this against the faith when Christianity or Judaism is involved. Baruch Goldstein, raised as a Jew, used a machine gun to murder 29 Muslims in 1994 in Hebron. Goldstein was a monster, not a religious believer, and was breaking the tenets of the faith he claimed. No sensible person would say that because of Baruch Goldstein, synagogues should not be built on the West Bank. Timothy McVeigh, who called himself a Christian, murdered 168 people with a terrorist bomb in Oklahoma City, and it's clear to everyone he was breaking the tenets of his faith. Why can't we understand the same thing about the 9-11 killers? No one would object to a Christian church being built near the Oklahoma City terror bomb site.

Here's what really puzzles me -- with all the snarling hatred on display regarding the proposed downtown New York mosque, there's been no discussion of the mosque that already exists inside the Pentagon. Islamic services are held in an interfaith chapel quite close to where a plane flown by murderers struck on 9/11, and that has caused no problems. The Washington Post buried the story on page A-11, while most newspapers and newscasts haven't mentioned the Pentagon mosque at all. If the people who work inside the Pentagon can see past their differences and embrace religious tolerance, how come this is impossible for people such as Newt Gingrich?

When McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, no one attributed his Christian faith to his act of terrorism

Holy fucking fuck...Boyes couldn't suck a dick if it landed in his mouth.

Why Isn't the Pentagon Mosque on the Front Page?

The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem) and the holy mosque (in Makka) from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim. This is in accordance with the words of Almighty Allah, 'and fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together,' and 'fight them until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah'.

I'm not talking about McVeigh.

THE HIJACKERS WERE NOT PRACTITIONERS OF MAINSTREAM ISLAM. THEY FOLLOWED BIN LADEN AND HIS PERVERSION OF THE RELIGION THAT IS DENOUNCED BY THE ENTIRE MAINSTREAM MUSLIM COMMUNITY.

This is my damn point. 19 individuals with perverted religious views do not represent the views and values of the entire Muslim community. However, for some unknown fucking reason, that's the narrative that is expressed.