AlwaysLisa
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It seems to me the hype isnt coming from those that want to build the mosque, but those against it.
Depends on what hype your refering to. If you mean the "discussions" involving Christianity vs Muslim, then yes, I agree.
If, however, you are talking about folks who are against the concept for the simple reason they have loved ones buried there...then no, they're voices are almost unheard.
I found this link, a memorial place of worship built in Hiroshima, after we dropped the bomb. It is for ALL faiths.
http://hiroshima.catholic.jp/~pcaph/cathedral/
There was opposition to this also...some from the Japanese, and some from our men who fought in that war.
Gene Tibbets, whose deceased father, Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets, piloted the Enola Gay, said that the decision to attend the ceremony amounted to an unspoken apology,“It's making the Japanese look like they're the poor people, like they didn't do anything,” he told Fox News this week. “They hit Pearl Harbor, they struck us. We didn't slaughter the Japanese. We stopped the war.”
Indeed, retired Army Air Corps Captain Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, the navigator of the Enola Gay and only still-surviving crew member, told the English Russian news channel RT, "The Japanese you know today are not the Japanese we fought during World War II." He said, "We had been in a long war, had been attacked by the Japanese, and the policy of the US government at that time was to subdue the nation of Japan."
I can understand the sentiment, however..then, it was a race of people, not their chosen faith and it wasn't a terrorist attack, we didn't make the first strike.
In the current debate, you have multiple cultures that worship the same beliefs, and it is that label that people are using to define them with. I don't agree with this, at all.
I do however, feel the voices of people who lost family menbers should be heard. I can't believe we are so callous to the remains of american citizens and how it is affecting their families. Whats next, bulldozing the head stones at Arlington Memorial Cemetary and telling everyone, "we are doing this to create world peace"?
In this country they have every right to erect a building of worship anywhere they can afford to pay the taxes and get a permit. I think what people are objecting to is the rememberance of 9/11 being affiliated with it. I can't speak for anyone who is making this a religious battle, as thats not my stance. :)
Oh, and politesub, the Oklahoma bombing was done by more then one crazed white man, :) We grow em here too.
Lisa
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