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The Muslim Hijacking of Ground Zero
SharonMcCarthy:
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--- Quote from: "RTP2003" ---but they'll probably just manipulate us into doing it for them.
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Welcome folks to the land of the free...we let everyone in now complain it is not going the way we want...well of course it's not. Unfortunately, Muslims have rights just like the Jews just like the Catholics just like the Christians...but hey we still are in the land of the free with cultural diversity. When the United States full blows up maybe then we should of taken more procautions on who we let in to begin with...instead of bitching about the border police doing their jobs....maybe we need to watch cargo planes instead. Let's just hand out more green cards to the ole terrorists. No wonder they target us, our government is frucking stupid...but hey we all are politically correct and no one is being offended. Fuck that offend someone and make them go the fuck back to their countries. The silly religious wars need to stay the hell out of America and remain where they began. Not my fight, hell not the fight of many actually so why are we getting blown up.....oil. And don't worry we can all stop by the Catholic church and pay for penance on our way out..we will get a pass into heaven anyways. How many scholorships do we award newly founded citizens????Fuck that our citizen here first should get first crack at it. Anyways, the land is fairly bought and sold not much anyone can do now but sit back and watch the Muslims spit in our faces...but this is the land of the free with cultural diversity..Amen for that....yeah ok. :beat: :beat:
Anne Bonney:
Paper to Readers: Sorry for Portraying Muslims as Human
http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2010/09/1 ... -as-human/
First, it was offensive and insensitive to build an Islamic center two blocks away from Ground Zero. Now it's offensive and insensitive to publish photos of American Muslims peacefully praying, on or around 9/11.
The Portland Press Herald has apologized to its readers for publishing images of Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan, which this year coincided with the 9/11 anniversary. Among the outrageous statements that the accompanying article made: that Portland-era Muslims met to mark the end of the month-long holy fast, that they made a traditional call for charity, and that children played soccer.
Noting that thousands of local Muslims marked a holy day peacefully near the anniversary of a day when a few Muslims committed a mass murder (whose victims included other Muslims) was apparently beyond the pale. The paper's editor and publisher wrote: "We erred by at least not offering balance to the story and its prominent position on the front page."
Here's where we are in America, 2010: There is now one group of Americans whose peaceful religious observance cannot be noted by decent people, unless it is "balanced" by the mention of a vile crime committed in 2001 by people, with a perverted idea of the same religion, from the other side of the world.
This is a depressing statement about the state of dialogue in America. Nine years after 9/11, there is now a widespread belief that, for one religious group of law-abiding Americans, the boundaries of acceptable behavior are narrower than for everyone else. Yes, you have the right to worship. But it would be decent of you to do it somewhere else. Or on another day. Or in such a way that the rest of us don't have to know about it. So now we have a newspaper kowtowing to a national freakout, apologizing for the most innocuous kind of soft feature, because acknowledging that there are decent Muslims in America is offensive. (From the comments on the article: "I don't want to here [sic] how caring the Muslim religion is on 9/11." But hey: it's only for a few days a year!)
But it's equally depressing for the state of journalism. This is an extreme instance, but a too-common, craven attitude: if anything you do offends a lot of readers—whatever their reasons, regardless of the merit of the coverage—it is a mistake. If enough people make a loud enough stink—well, it was your job to make sure that never happened. For any reason. This business is in bad enough shape. Just fix it. Make it go away. Apologize.
If there's one silver lining, it's that the apology drew its own storm of complaints. From one: "These people and their faith had nothing whatsoever to do with the horrific attack of nine years ago. Our state needs to be more tolerant, not less. Your apology implies that it is in some way OK to connect everyday Muslims and the attackers. I abhor such thinking."
Well said. The paper owed no one an apology. But it does now.
SharonMcCarthy:
It is highly offensive there is no doubt in that. We are all getting a huge slap in the face. But what actually can be done to stop it? We as Americans have allowed things of this magnitude to even be possible. Unfortunately, I can only hope and pray someone with any type of government authority will do the right thing. But as we have fully learned in the past our government has not ever done the right thing.
In building this they are only going to create more hardship and bad feeling, it might just spark off a major ordeal...but that is what the government wants...they want something drastic to happen. The enjoy the conflicts and enjoy blood shed..It keeps the population control in check, and hey they might be rid of some terrorists too.
Personally, I think Muslems are full of shit, especially the getting 100 virgins when they die, because look around you the only virgins are under 8 years old in the world left. But hey, if they want to lie to themselves all this time so be it. Their views are angry views and judgemental. No man has a right to judge anyone, that's God's job. Who are they to decide who is going to hell and burn and who gets the virgins. Maybe God wants one of us to have the last of the last of virgins. Guess we will never fully know, who gets the virgins. When anger fuels a fight, it generally will lose eventually, but thanks to the Good Ole USA, the land of oppertunity, we have fully given them so much power and money stock piled, they will eventually run ramped. We invited then to do this fully, and have noone to blame but our lovely politicans.
Once this thing is built, I bet we will see a lot of blood shed, you cannot think people are going to tolerate this happening. Not after 9-11, and the impact it has given to everyone in the United States. Some one will come unglued and destroy it watch, we will be watching the news and the thing will go up in smoke. Then we will hear the muslims cry OMFG what did they do to us, and then they will retailate. The Muslins want a fight, they are fighters and love to create havoc where ever they go...now it is in our land...great. The some big time Muslim will tell the other Muslims to kill us all off in the name of the Allah and the Koran. Seriously who cannot see the ooutcome of this ooutrageous action. They want to kick our asses for what we destroyed in Iraq. Their people died and oh my they will get justice somehow...Hell I am moving to Cananda maybe they will be safe for few more years. How the hell did noone see this happening, they want us to react, then they get their little Holy War here...God who does not see this little trap. People cannot be that thick.
Che Gookin:
Portland Post Herald is one newspaper I'll never spend a single cent on for as long as I live. What a huge lack of journalistic integrity on their9 part. How does something completely unrelated to the peaceful end of Ramadan worship in Portland relate to anything with 9r/11 in New York City? The story was written to report an event in Portland that portrays Muslim Americans in a peaceful manner, not to compare them to the lunatics who perpetrated 9/11.
More Christian racism and xenophobia and yet another example why America is reducing itself to the WAN status at an increasingly rapid clip. Sad truth is, most Americans these days are so pig ignorant they can barely read the ingredients label on the Captain Crunch box they are busy shoveling down their throats every morning. What a pathetic nation of losers we've become, utterly pathetic.
SharonMcCarthy:
--- Quote from: "Che Gookin" ---Portland Post Herald is one newspaper I'll never spend a single cent on for as long as I live. What a huge lack of journalistic integrity on their9 part. How does something completely unrelated to the peaceful end of Ramadan worship in Portland relate to anything with 9r/11 in New York City? The story was written to report an event in Portland that portrays Muslim Americans in a peaceful manner, not to compare them to the lunatics who perpetrated 9/11.
More Christian racism and xenophobia and yet another example why America is reducing itself to the WAN status at an increasingly rapid clip. Sad truth is, most Americans these days are so pig ignorant they can barely read the ingredients label on the Captain Crunch box they are busy shoveling down their throats every morning. What a pathetic nation of losers we've become, utterly pathetic.
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Fully agreed, which that even surprises me, but you are right.....the problem is we allowed ourselves to get lazy and our kids go uneducated. We tolerated the youth to become literally wastes. Americans had it easy for years and we got to comfortable in our surroundings. And I am going to enjoy my Captain Crunch until we get warfare on our front lawns...however Americans basically allowed for these radicals to slip in the front door, thanks to the good ole homeland security. Hell we should of just handed them the tools and the cash without wasting this time and effort. They are going to screw us with our own American money. Generally, when people get screwed up the rear they are offered KY, not us we are going to take it hard. Wonder if we will be given the right to grab our ankles first.
It is easier for Americans to get the ostrich symdrome...then to actually look around them and gain wisdom of what is going on around them. But hey Mary Sue's nails look real good, and Bob can hit a perfect hole in one. And Chucky down the block is sling dope...Yes, the land of the free...
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