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Positives:

• Place of religious worship.
  
• Also serves as a community center (gym, pool, theater, etc.)
  
• Shows America is religiously tolerant.

Negatives

• Near the site of 9/11.
  
• Can be seen as a "flag" declaring the Muslims are proud of what they did.
  
• It may cause people longer to forget about 9/11.

Discuss.

no it isnt a put down . read your damn constitution before you talk about AMERICA

Isn't terrorism like soooo 2002?

"No, it's clearly not a physical flag, but it can be perceived as a symbolic one - which is the whole point of this post."

I address your response to that later. My point isn't that I think there's some secret Muslim conspiracy to take over the world. I, personally, don't see it as a threat. The location is inappropriate, and that is all - like I've said about half a dozen times now.



Did you even read what I said? "the faith that the mosque represents was the catalyst for the destruction of the building that once stood in its place." Yes, they ARE related whether you admit it or not, and no, that doesn't mean I'm prejudiced against Muslims.

Let me spell it out for you:

1. Bin Laden has missionary motives: This is the first mandate in the letter he sent to the US "(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam."
2. 9/11 happens - the place that they want to build the mosque had had a building in its place that was destroyed.




Well I apologize then - everyone in America should just be like you. Not everybody gets past stuff like that at the same, so sorry that people heal slower than you.



I didn't put any words in your mouth, I took a guess as to what you were going to say.




I didn't say you said it, did I?




Actually, by the looks of your original post you were referring to people "who need to get over it," so naturally I assumed you were talking about those people. Learn to make clear sentences? Thanks.



If you actually understood what I wrote you might understand the analogy. First off, Nazi is NOT synonymous with an evil person. Most were in the Nazi party for ECONOMIC rather than SOCIAL or POLITICAL reasons. Now that you mention it though, they are pretty similar. Both Mein Kampf and the Koran advocate persecution of people who aren't like them.




Try reading pocketemo's post again, because there are literally no analogies.



lol? The logic of a true genius, ladies and gentlemen.



You said "Karma." Not, "it's like karma," or "one could say it's karma." No, you didn't say "KARMA IS REAL PEEPLEZ!" but going by your post alone that's what someone is likely to infer.



And you're using "shit happens" as a justification for Islamic Extremist actions?



Talk to the people of New York, not me. I personally think that people should NOT be offended by the presence of a mosque there, however that's not what they think and that's the reason I'm arguing against you.



So you advocate violence because you don't think people will ever get along? The world might not be perfect, but I'd rather be a part of the solution than the problem.



So you do or do not think he was justified? Because from what you're saying it's pretty ambiguous at this point. No he was not justified, and a wiki article on war doesn't change that.



Well then M-A-K-E I-T C-L-E-A-R! Because by what you wrote alone, it IS what it infers.



Actually it does.



I put no fecal matter in your oral cavity. <--- LOL RITE?



Care to expand on that? Anyone can make a statement - backing it up is the whole point.

See, I can do it too: "YOU IS RONG!"

By the way, any comment on the appropriateness of the location? I throw in another analogy for you if you want: If a group of extremist atheists bombed a church, it would be inappropriate to put an AAI building a few hundred feet away from the wreck.



"You seem to think that by stopping the building from being located there I'm somehow supporting the illegalization of Islam, or something to that effect. Stop taking things in black and white terms."



Not at all. That would be restricting the individual's freedom of speech/expression. A building, on the other hand, would affect a majority of people negatively whether you like it or not.



Lulz? I like the emphasis that people who mourn over people lost in 9/11 are "people who want a reason to cry over something." Try meeting one of them first.



It was an absolutely terrible one, because it didn't make clear what you meant and the scale of the two didn't compare. I was trying to pick out the meaning, but evidently your apathy to spend more then a few seconds constructing your sentences has impeded your ability to convey a message or meaning. Please try again.



What ignorance?



I like it spicy .

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