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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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It's the Ground Zero mosque, really a social center, again. This time it involves Jews, notably the Simon Wiesenthal gaggle of Nazi-hunters, who are now all but out of work.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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 Posted - 08/07/2010 : 12:00:24 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
It's the Ground Zero mosque, really a social center, again. This time it involves Jews, notably the Simon Wiesenthal gaggle of Nazi-hunters, who are now all but out of work.
| Wiesenthal Center opposes NYC mosque, supports museum on Palestinian graveyard |
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They, of all people, should know better. Sigh... |
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Why not question something for a change?
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Machi4velli
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 08/07/2010 : 14:21:44 [Permalink]
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How they can continually call this a matter of sensitivity blows my mind.
I think the museum is irrelevant though -- 800 years ago is not 9 years ago, but it doesn't really matter. The first argument falls apart without irrational bigotry. |
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The Rat
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Posted - 08/07/2010 : 17:21:11 [Permalink]
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| In 1948 former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, as a member of the Zionist terror group Irgun, planted a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people. Guess we should ban the building of synagogues in that city, it's just so damned insensitive. And I would love to see the hissy fit the right wingers would have if we proposed banning the building of churches in Oklahoma City. After all, Timothy McVeigh was Christian, wasn't he? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 08/07/2010 : 17:50:36 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
In 1948 former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, as a member of the Zionist terror group Irgun, planted a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people. Guess we should ban the building of synagogues in that city, it's just so damned insensitive. And I would love to see the hissy fit the right wingers would have if we proposed banning the building of churches in Oklahoma City. After all, Timothy McVeigh was Christian, wasn't he?
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It is said that McVeigh was associated with the Christian Identity Movement, but I have yet to confirm this. As best anyone actually knows, he was a lapsed Catholic who once claimed to be an agnostic.
Terry Nichols, on the other hand, went off the religious deep end not long after he was locked up.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Would you like a little hypocrisy with that?
