RE: Mosque at Ground Zero
August 5, 2010 at 7:12 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2010 at 7:13 pm by Autumnlicious.)
No. Flat out no.
Why? Because of the moderate muslim response and lack of it. Because of the symbol other countries will derive from it, far more plausible than not.
Because using the land for which a few thousand people died for the site of any place of worship to religions responsible for the cumulative deaths of millions and stagnation of progress is not only an insult to human nature, but is a vindication of every crime associated with religion and it's acolytes.
Would you propose setting up a shrine to Pol Pot near the site of his last major massacre?
It is just as innocuous, if you know a thing about ancestor worship and see little difference between that and the ancestor worship of modern religion.
So fucking hell no.
Make ground zero a park and a monument, and nothing else.
Let the thousands who died be a monument to themselves and the who they were, not to anyone or anything else.
That includes ancient nomadic goat herders and vile ancient Arabian traders, and yes, even political causes and ideologies.
Why? Because of the moderate muslim response and lack of it. Because of the symbol other countries will derive from it, far more plausible than not.
Because using the land for which a few thousand people died for the site of any place of worship to religions responsible for the cumulative deaths of millions and stagnation of progress is not only an insult to human nature, but is a vindication of every crime associated with religion and it's acolytes.
Would you propose setting up a shrine to Pol Pot near the site of his last major massacre?
It is just as innocuous, if you know a thing about ancestor worship and see little difference between that and the ancestor worship of modern religion.
So fucking hell no.
Make ground zero a park and a monument, and nothing else.
Let the thousands who died be a monument to themselves and the who they were, not to anyone or anything else.
That includes ancient nomadic goat herders and vile ancient Arabian traders, and yes, even political causes and ideologies.
