What's more offensive: A mosque near ground zero or the 9/11 truther demonstrations each anniversary?
scott: just because something is legal, doesn't mean it cannot be offensive.
bethany: you sound very fearful and xenophobic.
scott: just because something is legal, doesn't mean it cannot be offensive.
bethany: you sound very fearful and xenophobic.
Anonymous
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911 conspiracy theorist ar just annoying. THe insistance of those who want to keep the mosque in that location with their statement of why their building it is far more worrisome. I am not offended, but understand why some don't want it there. What I am worried is those who want the mosque state it is meant to bring Islam and hte West together, but with the outcry, the seem to not understand it's doing the opposite. Even though so many are against it, they refuse to listen to the other side ( I heard they are begining to talk about moving though) For people to get along together, they both need to be willing to listen. For the supported to shut out people and refuse to listen and shut out those who are concern about the mosque shows they are the wrong people to bring people together.
jeanette t
It depends on who you are. If you are a family member then I would think both could be offensive. I say could because it depends on your political belief system and to what you feel you know to be the truth about what happened. A lot of people question the "official" story of 9/11. It is hard to even think what the truthers are saying about it being an inside job as being true, because it would really mean something else to the person who lost a loved one. A terrorist attack and a government scheduled attack would be two very different things. If you are a truther then you would not have a prejudice I believe against the mosque because you would then believe it was not the "muslims" that brought down the towers. That being said even if you do think the terrorists did it, then you SHOULD know I think that it was a very small fundamentalist group of people, and mainstream, normal muslims are peaceful and would never want this to happen to the country they themselves live in and raise kids. You have to get your news from from different places besides Fox and CNN. So in final, Neither should be offensive because yes it is a free country, but even though it is a free country I find flag burning to be very defamatory and disgusting because of all our troops have done to serve our country. Most humans want to live in peace. It's a small portion of megalomaniacs and psychopath's that screw it up for the rest of us.
Anonymous
Nothing the least bit offensive about a mosque near ground zero at all. (They were also men - it it offensive that there are mens' bathrooms near ground zero? Not all Muslims participated in, or were even in favor of, what happened on 9-11-01.) Not that anyone is proposing a mosque. (Acommunity center isn't a mosque.)
As far as Truthers, people having a different opinion aren't offensive.
jhuss1256
What is offensive to me, is that people that don't have any involvement in the day, people that didn't lose anyone in the destruction that continue to act so holier than though, It was an act of war. Get over it! If you lost a relative or live in the area and was effected in any way, I feel your pain. But like we let veterans of Pearl Harbour mourn their lost friends. Let them remember their lost, in peace. We don't broadcast memorials every december 7th for Pearl Harbor, or July 1-3 for the 57,225 casualties of the Battle of Gettysburg or do we have a Holocaust memorial service aired everywhere. So lets give it a rest. In no way am I saying forget what happened, we should never do that, just like we should never forget the other events I mentioned. Lets just make it what it is. A day of sadness for many, and let those that need to grieve, grieve, and everyone else, pause for a minute or two and then move on with your lives!
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Islam is a faith of peace. the folk to blame for 9/11 violated many diverse factors of Islam. As of the mosque being insensitive...that's no longer. by way of fact they are no longer development a mosque, yet a multi-faith cultural center. save this in strategies, the Jews under no circumstances criticized Christians for development church homes in holocaust factors (yet although...we don't think of of the Nazi's as Christians recently, can we? think of roughly it)