jaredwb said:
-Nope, that's the problem with you liberal dems
Please, avoid personal attacks.
I do not identify with the Democratic Party of USA.
jaredwb said:
...you make up the definitions to suite your agenda.
Per Websters Dict: a : incorporation as equals into society or an organization of individuals of different groups (as races). EQUALS...not special treatment and exceptions because you are Muslim or whatever.
You fail to mention
liberty. Liberty under equality. I made no definition, so your argument has no basis.
And what exception for Muslims do you implies?
What special treatment?
The entire world knows that there are lots of religion related building all around the Ground Zero. Those are Jews, Catholic, Protestant, Muslims and other religion places and buildings. Some are even nearer that the projected Cordoba center (the project is not at ground Zero, it's many blocks away from it). And is not a mosque, by the way.
Why Muslims are to be denied something that all religion are allowed? (including Muslim places already existent, even nearer than the projected Cordoba center). Because some demagogues decided to exploit the emotions of the victims?
jaredwb said:
-I'm calling your bullsh@t again: MUSLIM Terrorists attacked us in the NAME of ISLAM. We did not attack anyone in the name of Christianity. Japan didn't attack us in the name of Shinto. The MUSLIM Terrorists want to 1) apply Sharia Law Worldwide 2) Bring about the fall of ALL religions under Allah's sword
That's pointless. If they attacked on the name of the Islam, or the Spaghetti Monster. Nobody asked the Spaghetti Monster, and nobody asked permission to 1,200,000,000 Muslims to do the attacks.
What If USA were pretending to do the bombings on the name of Christianity? It would not make all the Christianity guilty.
You are responsible only of your acts. You are not responsible of other people acts, even if they claim to make it on your religion's name.
jaredwb said:
I lived in a Muslim country for 2 years and think the religion is amazing, celebrated the Muslim holidays (at fairs and in homes) and I understand the faction of Terrorists is an extreme group. That does NOT change the fact they are killing us in the NAME of ISLAM.
1-What variant of Islam??? Ben Laden was enemy of Iraq, Sadam Hussein, and his variant of Islam.
2-How many variants of Islam do you know? Do you know that most hate each other?
3-It's absolutely pointless whatever they did "in the name of Islam". There are between 1,200,000,000 and 1,600,000,000 Islam worshipers in the world. Ben Laden has no control over they, and never got permission nor support from all those billions of people that you blame. But if you accuse, or attack all of them, of course all of them should be feel addressed. You are the cause.
Do you understand that if you do any damage or hostility against ALL of Islam, YOU are uniting all of them against you?
Do you know that USA depends on some Muslim Nations to get oil? (not Iraq, or Iran)
Do you know that some Muslim nations have nuclear weapons, and USA do not dispute their right to own those weapons?
Do you know that USA plan to sell stealth planes and lots of state of the art weapons to those nations to recover from his economic problems?
Do you want to make enemies of all of them?
jaredwb said:
I'm sure if a few crazy factions of the Vatican went and blew up a few hundred people you would be calling for the eradication of Christianity as a whole and screaming about the murdering CHRISTIANS (leaving out the terrorist part)
Why you are attacking me personally?
Are you accusing me of "Islamism"?. What is your base? Why are you "sure" that I would be "screaming" for "eradication" of people? You looks like the only extremist here.
jaredwb said:
-I'm not playing the victim...I was in NY but luckily on the other side of town. My point was that building a Mosque near Ground Zero is disgusting
Why is disgusting? Your statement is disgusting, but it's your problem. If you find Muslims, Jews, Hare Chrisna, Catholics, or whatever "disgusting", it's your problem.
You enjoy the
Equal Liberty to worship any religion, or not, and the
Right to do it even if other people finds it "disgusting".
Accept it, or ignore it. Those are your rights.
Disgust is an emotion, a feeling, not an argument.
jaredwb said:
And thank goodness we have the RIGHT to impede something we feel strongly against.
You don't agree with yourself. You wrote this:
jaredwb said:
As for the Mosque in NY...NOBODY is denying they have a right to build it.
jaredwb said:
-See, we agree on something
And will someone PLEASE explain to me how to do the multiple quote boxes?????
Each Quote box starts with Quote, and ends with /Quote.