[lit-ideas] Re: Ground Zero (hey, Eric?)

  • From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 00:37:41 -0500

RP: "Today on CNN, which seems to be on its last legs, the view that the
motive for the terrorist attack which created the destruction at Ground Zero
was to make it possible to build a mosque there. Ms. Palin has not weighed
in on this."

Give her time,  She needs to write it on her palm first, for Chrissake.

Mike Geary
Memphis


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mike wrote
>
>  How is it possible to stop any religious organization from buying property
>> and building a center dedicated to the interests of that religion anywhere
>> unless all other religions are  similarly forbidden to do so within that
>> area as well?  Zoning laws make sense to me, but only if they're applied
>> equally to all, else welcome to injustice.  Islamism did not commit the
>> crimes of 9/11 -- radical individuals did and though they were Islamists,
>> they are not representative of Islamism -- only its right-wing extreme.
>>  Many of the contemporary crimes of Christians and Jews are no less heinous.
>>  Unless NYC is prepared to outlaw all religious institutions from operating
>> within Ground Zero, I see no just or Constitutional way to prohibit the
>> Islamists from doing so.
>>
> I think that Islamism tends to be so conservative that it would like
> everybody to be subject to Sharia law; I'm not sure what a moderate Islamist
> would be. In any event, Islamism is a political movement not a religious
> one. Other than that, I agree with Mike, and with John who agrees with Mike,
> who...).
>
> There's this, from the Washington Post
>
> http://tinyurl.com/24n9o75
>
> and this from The New Yorker about the Washington Post and the Wikileaks
>
> http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/08/02/100802taco_talk_hertzberg
>
> Today on CNN, which seems to be on its last legs, the view that the motive
> for the terrorist attack which created the destruction at Ground Zero was to
> make it possible to build a mosque there. Ms. Palin has not weighed in on
> this.
>
> Robert Paul,
> somewhere south of Reed College
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