Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[phillymic2000]

if i ever felt the need to go timothy mcveigh on a large group of people, i think it would be these mosque protesters. i try to stay away from politics because everyone is so stupid but these racists make my blood boil.

http://wonkette.com/417611/yokel-slobs-protesting-nyc-mosque-mistake-local-black-carpenter-from-wtc-construction-site-for-scary-911-muslim

WTH? Really come on that is some bullshtein. Since when is protesting something people don't believe in automatically seen as racist? There were a few idiots yelling things (like there are extremists at any rally for any cause), the crowd seemed pretty calm, even had a few of the "leaders" telling people to calm down and at the end of the video, the one guy says, our time is up and we have to go. Unless we missed the part where they were smashing windows, looting shops around the area, or burning things.

[phattymatty]

what color are your clothes in that video?

[Rome]

How can this fiasco not be seen as a racial issue?  Brown people want to build a place of worship and white people want it burned to the ground.   Same old, same old in this country.

[ice grillin you]

what color are your clothes in that video?

ha

[phattymatty]

and it's not even that video, it's the entire concept of the protest that just baffles me. i don't understand how any intelligent american can be against letting someone worship at a location where they're been praying at for a long time already.  if you can explain what the possible bad outcome of the mosque could be, please do.

[phillymic2000]

i was teetering as it was but i basically gave up on america the other day when the new poll came out saying almost 70% of the country still isnt sure if obama is a muslim or not


as for these morons stewart made such a great point the other night in that piece i posted above about how its such a joke that one of the main reasons for protesting the mosque is because terrorists are supposedly behind it...yet these same people will then turn around say build it in midtown or the upper east side or in new jersey...just not at ground zero

Agreed, maybe instead of Hilary calling for an investigation on the protestors cash flow, maybe they should investigate where the money is coming from for the center. Overall I think most people look at this as a "Victory Mosque". IMO, they have every right to build the mosque/center at that location and people have the right to protest it. With such outcry from the community/city I would think they might want to look at another location, but thats up to them in the end.

[Diomedes]

How can this fiasco not be seen as a racial issue? 

Well, see, we're no longer allowed to point out racism because--get this--doing so only shows that we are the racists!

[Rome]

At least we're not Cowboys fans.

[ice grillin you]

With such outcry from the community/city I would think they might want to look at another location, but thats up to them in the end.

bloomberg supports it....as he should

[Diomedes]

I'd vote for that guy if he ran for President.  Possibly over Obama.

[phillymic2000]

and it's not even that video, it's the entire concept of the protest that just baffles me. i don't understand how any intelligent american can be against letting someone worship at a location where they're been praying at for a long time already.  if you can explain what the possible bad outcome of the mosque could be, please do.

I never said that building the mosque there is WRONG!! But people have the right to protest. Good Grief! That piece was so loaded and retarded it was funny after seeing the video. Almost 10 years ago that city was attacked by terrorists claiming that religion, and over 3 thousand people died. I can see why some people would have some hard feelings about a mosque going up there. Does that make them right or wrong? Who fargin knows. But for the outcry on this board for "tolerance", it's only one way most of the time. If someone disagrees with the majority feeling of this board they are labeled "RACIST". But if the majority feeling of the board goes against the main way this country votes or thinks, well then everyone else is a stupid ass MA racist.

[phattymatty]

of course people have the right to protest. doesn't mean it's not based on bigotry. there is literally no other basis for the protest. scary muslims are too close to ground zero. 

[phillymic2000]

With such outcry from the community/city I would think they might want to look at another location, but thats up to them in the end.

bloomberg supports it....as he should

So is this guy a racist too? I wonder if he has brown skin also.

For most Americans, 9/11 remains as an open wound, and anything associated with Islam, even for Americans who want to understand Islam — to have an Islamic center with so much publicity is like rubbing salt in open wounds," said Akbar Ahmed, professor of Islamic studies at American University, a former Pakistani ambassador to Britain and author of "Journey Into America, The Challenge of Islam." He said the space should include a synagogue and a church so it will truly be interfaith.

By contrast, Neda Bolourchi of Los Angeles, a native of Iran whose mother was on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, opposes the plan.

"I fear that over time, it will cultivate a fundamentalist version of the Muslim faith, embracing those who share such beliefs and hating those who do not," she wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. "To the supporters of this new Islamic cultural center, I must ask: Build your ideological monument somewhere else, far from my mother's grave, and let her rest."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100818/ap_on_re_us/us_ground_zero_mosque_us_muslims

[Diomedes]

For the last time, it's not a mosque.  I call you ignorant because you are. These are simple goddamned facts that it is not a mosque, that it is not at ground zero, that the people erecting it are not extremists or in any way associated with the people who attacked the U.S. on 9/11.    There is no good reason to object to the proposed use of that.

There are only bad reasons to protest it.  Racist, ignorant, un-American reasons.  The law allows even these kinds of people to protest, but I'll be damned if, when they do, I don't point out that their gathering is the equivalent of the KKK marching around town. 

[phattymatty]

bloomberg supports it....as he should

So is this guy a racist too? I wonder if he has brown skin also.

wow.