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Originally Posted by isitatomic
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Sure you have the RIGHT to stand up and try to argue for the circumvention of the First Amendment rights of Islamic residents of Manhattan, but wouldn't it be WISER to simply shut the fuck up[/B]?
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I'll tell you who needs to shut the fuck up: everybody who doesn't live in New York, that's who.
People seem to find it easy to tell some other state what they should or should not accept. But the tune often changes considerably when it's being built in your own backyard.
In the meantime, let's build a recruiting office for the American Nazi Party right next to a Jewish holocaust museum. Would that work for ya's..? Or how about if we dig up Lee Harvey Oswald and move his grave, so that he's buried right next to JFK's tomb. Or maybe we could even build a Church Of Satan right next to St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Doing any of the above would understandably lead to acts of desecration and violence. It's not just a 1st Amendment issue... it's also a civil unrest issue.
And there is still a question regarding the funding of this mosque project. It has been alleged that a sizable percentage of the funding is coming from Saudi Arabia and Iran... nations which have also financially backed terrorists in the past. If it was discovered that some of the people who are covertly funding this project were also involved in the financial backing for the 9/11 attacks, would everyone still feel that same way about allowing this mosque to be built..?
This is not an open-and-shut case. There is much to consider.