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That's okay. I'm used to it!
I don't totally understand the fervor about the mosque, either.
What/Where are we without our rights and freedoms?
A local bar, here, has on his marquee, "Build the mosque. We'll fly Saudi jets into it"
i don't think it's always about rights and freedoms. most aren't arguing they don't have the right to build it. just because you have the right to do something, doesn't mean you should do it.
Are you going to try to shut down the one built 4 blocks away? Are you going to try to shut down the church at GZ? What about the churches near McVeigh's act of terrorism? He was christian you know, dont you?
"Actually, the comparison is ridiculous, because, as his own network acknowledged the morning after McVeigh's execution, that the murderer was "baptized in the Catholic Church as a boy, but had stopped practicing and recently described himself as agnostic." Moreover, as the terrorist himself admitted, he bombed the Oklahoma City federal building as a "retaliatory strike; a counter attack, for the cumulative raids (and subsequent violence and damage) that federal agents had participated in over the preceding years (including, but not limited to, Waco)." McVeigh did not carry out the attack in the name of the Christian God or in the name of the Catholic Church. On the other hand, Al Qaeda issued a fatwa in 1998, which declared that killing "Americans and their allies...is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it...in accordance with the words of Almighty God.""
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