Except, apparently no.
In the end, building the building (whether called a mosque or otherwise) or not building the building won't change what crazy, radical terrorists say. Sure, build it and they will spin it as a "win." Don't build it, and they will spin it as, "see, told ya." Either way, they will use it to recruit. So maybe we shouldn't be quite so worried about what crazy people will say.
Maybe we should be a little more self-reflexive about the ways we in the US are crazy. Is this really who we want to be? Shouting in the streets about the atrocities of others while ignoring or explaining away our bloody actions as always justified, or at least excusable? Do we really think we can suspend the First Amendment just this once out of "sensitivity" that we somehow forget when we yell indiscriminately at fellow citizens, "Go back to your country, towelhead!"?
And how do we conveniently not recognize the timing of this -- an issue that nearly a year ago had no real opposition and even the support of local religious leaders (Jews and Christians!), but now in the rundown to the midterm elections the masses are whipped into a lathering, street thug frenzy? Ring a bell, froth at the mouth. Now get your treat. Snausage or thorazine?
It's crazy vs. crazy, but at least in all this madness the folks on the extremes are finding some common ground. Too bad it is a psychotic delusion.
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You don't seem to understand.... if WE do it, then Jesus says it's all OK. If THEY do something..... THEN, and only THEN, is it an atrocity.
ReplyDeleteThe Jesusistanis don't have any problem at all with killing hundreds of thousands of the heathen brown. Hell, there's quite a few people HERE they'd like to see killed.
Oh, I understand that. But disturbingly, Jesus is not necessary for many folks to make the same justifications. It may be too much of a comfortable "out" to assume religion is the primary source of delusion.
ReplyDeleteI think religion is what makes this idiocy OK for most of the people engaging in it. Religion has been a divisive force in human society for thousands of years.
ReplyDeleteI do think that this is being concocted to distract people from the real enemies of middle class and poor people a few blocks away on Wall St.