Aswad
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ORIGINAL: Louve00 Personally, I can see why it would upset New Yorkers. I know not all muslims are terrorists and I'm sure they do too, but alot of people in that area lost alot of loved ones because terrorists, who also pray to jihad or the same god that people will be honoring in that mosque. Considering that the Catholic church instituted the doctrine of holy war (aka jihad) under St. Augustine, would you also oppose the construction of one of their churches in that area, or is it just mosques? I would be inclined to assume that it is just mosques raising people's ire, but I would be happy to be shown wrong in this. It is easy for us humans to ascribe fault to the wrong thing, to project a problem onto a larger group than is actually to blame for the event we are responding emotionally to. That eventually leads to things like the Holocaust. Or, on a much smaller scale of destruction and loss: ramming a few planes through office buildings. When we don't pay attention to history, only the players change, while the story stays the same. Scratch your 9/11 against the 9/11's you have pulled, and start with a fresh scoreboard. That's how progress is made, and you don't need to be Ghandi to see it. BTW, Allah probably didn't tell anyone to ram the twin towers... Health, al-Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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