I've done everything in my power to stay out of this "mosque near the World Trade Center site" debate. From where I sit, religion seems to be at the root of all of the world's conflicts, so I'd just as soon there be no religious buildings in Lower Manhattan of any kind. But have you ever noticed how all un-American groups have the word "American" in their names?
The AP reports:
New York City's transit agency has approved a bus advertisement that depicts a plane flying toward the World Trade Center's towers as they burn along with a rendering of a proposed mosque near ground zero.
The ad was paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, an organization that opposes radical Islamic influence in the United States. The group's executive director says she doesn't find the ad offensive.
The group sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to demand it accept the ad, which was approved Monday. MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz says the agency doesn't endorse the ad's views.
The organization's response and boiler plate may very well set off a jihad of which I am the leader:
Responding to charges that the ad is offensive, American Freedom Defense Initiative Executive Director Pamela Geller said: "What's more insulting and offensive -- that image of truth, or a 15 story mega-mosque looking down on the sacred ground of Ground Zero?"
American Freedom Defense Initiative/Stop Islamization of America is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Cartoonish Behavior
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It is truly sad that the people most outspoken about Muslim extremism seem to be mainly upset that it's not Christian extremism. (Not that the mosque "debate" is about extremism anyway ...)
Since there is already a mosque nearby, and there is also one in the Pentagon (after 9/11!), this one is easy to spot as a faux outrage story. Well, I mean it's real outrage, but it's ginned up.
It's incoherant as any other tea bagger/FOX "News" talking point. Freedom of religion. . .unless you're Muslim! Whatever. Maybe they should build a big Flying Spaghetti Monster there.
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