ON MOSQUES AND MORONS

A black, ground zero, construction worker gets accosted by mob of biggoted dipshits

Sometimes the level of stupidity in this country even surprises me and I think every third person is a simple minded mongoloid. Irish Catholics who protest this mosque are quite simply complete fucking idiots, Mormons who protest this mosque, complete fucking morons, Jews, morons, basically any ethnic group or religious group has has a problem with the so-called, ground zero mosque or as I call it, the Burlington coat factory mosque, are stupid, forgetful, bigoted fucks. Every major group in this country has been treated like shit at one point or another and for Catholics to not see parallels with what's going on with all the Muslim bashing and what happened to Catholics in the 1840's and 50's is just blind ignorance and blatant stupidity.

For those of you not in the know, for the first 200 years of this country's history, Catholicism was viewed by many Americans as an evil, "foreign" religion where the adherents could not be trusted because they were dedicated to bringing down democracy and imposing a papacy. Sound familiar? There was enough anti-catholic animosity bubbling amongst the masses that a whole political party called the Know nothings was formed that basically had one goal, to drive all the Catholics out of America. The Know nothings tried to achieve this by burning down catholic churches and going through mostly German and Irish catholic neighborhoods and Ghettos and murdering people. Before the church burnings and murders there was just mobs of angry misinformed assholes blaming Catholics for all their perceived woes. Just like now. But we all know where this kind of scapegoating and demagoguery leads to. Now the catholic church stood by and allowed many priests to rape children but no one is saying you can't build a catholic church near a playground. No mosque here! No catholic church here! Same fucking difference.

Mormons. Mormons like Glenn Beck should remember how their church ended up in Utah. It wasn't because they hated the east coast or the mid west, it was because everywhere they went people tried to kill them and burned down their meeting houses. The church's founder and major league bullshitter, Joseph Smith, was murdered by a mob in Illinois. Now Mormonism is pretty fucking out there but it's adherents shouldn't be killed or told they can't can't build churches. They can be told not to have 10 wives and not to give their 13 year old daughters to their pervy uncles to marry.

Jews: Well we all know Jews have a legitimate gripe with Muslims but being Jews, the most historically disliked and scapegoated people on the planet they should have some fucking sense of when another religious group is being treated like second class citizens. Especially in New York where the history of antisemitism is as old as the city itself. Peter Stuyvesant the Governor of New Amsterdam didn't want Jews as colonists, wouldn't let them join the militia and then taxed them for not being in the militia, would not grant them permits to start businesses and refused them the right to build a synagogue. Wow, that sounds familiar.

I've argued this mosque with a bunch of people and all their arguments are of the emotional/racist/fearful/misinformed/holier than thou/ground zero=holyground=all muslims caused 9/11 hogwash. Basically their arguments are all formed by watching Fox and friends stupidity. It's a terror training base! It's a victory mosque! Ridiculous. I love this particular argument. "They have the right to build one, but they shouldn't anyway." This is the cake and eat it argument. Which tries to say, "I'm a lover of the constitution and the rights it grants unless of course these rights are upheld by people I don't like then they should move it so as to not hurt my feelings because they offend me. And if they don't move I'll do everything within my power to shame them into moving." Very patriotic. There is no logic to their bullshit only hate and distrust. These people crying over this thig seriously have no balls, they are cowards shitting their pants over every perceived defeat. " It's too close to ground zero. They should be sensitive to my feelings of the holy ground that was the Burlington coat factory." Well, just how far away is far enough to build? Where does the ground stop being "Holy" Can they build a mosque in Brooklyn? Can they find some space on any of the boroughs that won't be considered "holy ground" to these flag waving bullshit artists? Wave the flag but forget what it's supposed to stand for. Good work screaming anti-Muslim slogans all over fox news and TV, playing right into hands of the crazy bastards that actually did attack us. Fucking morons. Fucking idiots.




Christopher Hitchens, no fan of Islam says it well; "Two weeks ago, I wrote that the arguments against the construction of the Cordoba Initiative center in lower Manhattan were so stupid and demagogic as to be beneath notice. Things have only gone further south since then, with Newt Gingrich's comparison to a Nazi sign outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum or (take your pick from the grab bag of hysteria) a Japanese cultural center at Pearl Harbor."