Of ocurse I am going to take the opportunity to talk about the Hamas attack on Israel. First, I'd like to talk about my background, or baggage, regarding the country. I have lived in Israel, some years ago. This was not for religious reasons; I spent several months there working on a movie. During pre-production, weeks of location scouting and shooting the movie, I was all over the country, and spent a fair amount of time in the West Bank, where we also shot. This included a lot of places that normal tourists would not see, including predominantly Arab areas such as East Jerusalem, the Arab quarter of the old city, Ramla and the southern part of Jaffa, which is predominantly Arab. It also included heavily Orthodox areas like Mea Shearim. I dealt with Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and Bedouins. Here are a few things I believe I learned there: First of all, the Palestinians I knew were perfectly normal people with the same interest in living a safe, secure
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Do we still have the freedom to lampoon islam? Ask the formerly iconoclastic South Park writers.
Anyway, they have the right to build that mosque, and Americans that hate the idea have the right to criticize it.
Pissing off 2/3 of the country is a strange way to "build bridges" and promote "cultural understanding."
Will this planned mosque do that? Only time will tell.
Absolutely correct, Silverfiddle. Too bad none of your fellow right wingers, who seem to spend half their time inventing supposed attacks on their own religion, agree with you.
As if the islamic cultural center in NYC is about humor. Actually... It is! It's a joke, a sick one which highlights the face of Conservatism.
Conservatism is White Christian Fascism. Conservatives will never consider non-whites, non-Heteronormative, non-christians as Americans.
And it highlights the lies of Conservatives, who for all their bluster don't believe religious freedom and don't believe in limited government.
What conservatives believe in is using Government to oppress and murder those who don't conform to their stilted bigotry.
Actually, Silverfiddle, I saw it as a colossal tower of coherent leftwing truth. Of course, being a conservative, you couldn't be expected to catch the difference.