Lothar wrote:Kilarin wrote:If no one had wasted time protesting, then all they could have said was, "Hey, look, we built a mosque, see?" To which the response would have been, "SO? It's America, you can build a mosque wherever you want. What do we care?"
Or even better:
"It's America. We are glad to have provided your radicals with the opportunity to build a mosque there, to share your views, and to compete in the marketplace of public opinion -- where your radical ideas will lose. We are better than you, and this is one of the ways we show it."
I think that logic could prove successful on people who have a similar perspective as yourself, similar values and all that, regarding human rights, all men being created equal, turn the other cheek, non-secular society, etc. etc.
Unfortunately, in this case, you would be hoping to have the same successful effect on people who scoff at the foolishness of the infidel who would expect such a statement to be persuasive over the will of Allah. They wouldn't deep down see the wisdom of your gesture, they would more likely take offense that you try to sway them off the path to righteousness!
As they see it their 'ideas aren't losing'. They are gaining ground, figuratively and physically, they have recruited our morons to join them against us and they have done so from inside our borders.
So your premise that their attempt would be fruitless would seem like foolishness on your part to them, and it does to me as well.
I think their is room between the lines to distinguish when such a gesture you suggest is a net positive and when it is a net negative and when it is a net negative to refrain from joining in their charade is not an erosion of our fundamental freedom.
I bet you don't want planned parenthood passing out condoms in schools. It seems to send the message that authority condones promiscuity since the authority is providing the condom.
Well, the 'authority' of public opinion shouldn't be goaded into sanctioning the Islamofacsist's
trojan mosque.
We are forced by our own standards of freedom and good government to allow it to be built. We are not compelled to call it something it isn't simply so they won't think we are bigots. the
'they' in this case already think we are sub-human so we aren't giving up anything by at least rejecting the cover story and being vocal about it!!
We do not have to accept the duplicitous nature in which they interact with outsiders.
If we can at least let them know that we are not stupid, that their ploy is not working and that they will be allowed to build, not because they succeeded in disguising their intent but because we won't cut off our nose to spite our face we still maintain the moral high ground without surrendering our cognizance.
I do wonder, if we already sanction the Iranians financially, freezing their assets, for their part in breaking international treaties do we have to let them spend freely to buy a mosque in America?
