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Some loosely connected articles
Jul. 31st, 2010 04:13 pm
A few of them are about the proposed mosque near the WTC site. Sorry, it's not a mosque. It's a cultural center which will have a mosque appended to it. So when people start talking about a "15 story mosque", think instead "15 stories of classrooms and pools and a gym, oh, and a mosque". Also, when they say "At the WTC" don't think "At the WTC" think "A few blocks away where there used to be a Burlington Coat Factory". I used to shop there occasionally. It's not quite as close as it's being made out to be.
Now, the Boy Scouts are trying to rebuild their ranks. Most of the comments point out that the Boy Scouts condone and endorse (and practice!) exclusion of atheists and gays. One of them, however, goes "Well, this country was better when we had more Boy Scouts and official recognition of them!" You know, back in the 50s or so.
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And a corollary article on the Girl Scouts.
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One link on the subject of how some parties lie and manipulate (brings up the cultural center AND the boy scouts, so it's our little linchpin here)
A NYTimes article on the cultural center Read the comments, they're... enlightening. My favorite was the one who said upfront that people a few thousand miles away don't get any say. Hear, hear! You don't live in NYC, you never lived in NYC, you probably don't especially want to come to NYC - you don't get a vote.
Incidentally, for all the people talking about the guys "celebrating in Pakistan" or wherever it was, all I can think, every time, is of sitting on 9/11 watching the video of people being evacuated from Disney World, laughing and waving.
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Incidentally, I'll cut you some slack because you *are* a Holocaust survivor, Mr. Foxman, but comparing 9/11 TO the Holocaust? If I did it, or anybody else did it, we'd be told just how classy we were.
And another link on the not-actually-a-mosque.
Apparently some buses in the nation currently have anti-Islam ads on their sides.
Oh, and the Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee says that Islam might be a "cult". Yes, I suppose for that definition of "cult" that includes every religion under the sun, sure!
Now, the Boy Scouts are trying to rebuild their ranks. Most of the comments point out that the Boy Scouts condone and endorse (and practice!) exclusion of atheists and gays. One of them, however, goes "Well, this country was better when we had more Boy Scouts and official recognition of them!" You know, back in the 50s or so.
( Read more... )
And a corollary article on the Girl Scouts.
( Read more... )
One link on the subject of how some parties lie and manipulate (brings up the cultural center AND the boy scouts, so it's our little linchpin here)
A NYTimes article on the cultural center Read the comments, they're... enlightening. My favorite was the one who said upfront that people a few thousand miles away don't get any say. Hear, hear! You don't live in NYC, you never lived in NYC, you probably don't especially want to come to NYC - you don't get a vote.
Incidentally, for all the people talking about the guys "celebrating in Pakistan" or wherever it was, all I can think, every time, is of sitting on 9/11 watching the video of people being evacuated from Disney World, laughing and waving.
( Read more... )
Incidentally, I'll cut you some slack because you *are* a Holocaust survivor, Mr. Foxman, but comparing 9/11 TO the Holocaust? If I did it, or anybody else did it, we'd be told just how classy we were.
And another link on the not-actually-a-mosque.
Apparently some buses in the nation currently have anti-Islam ads on their sides.
Oh, and the Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee says that Islam might be a "cult". Yes, I suppose for that definition of "cult" that includes every religion under the sun, sure!
