On 08/20/2010 01:56 AM, Jeff Binkley -> Ed Hulett wrote:


 RS>>>>>>> The New York City landmarks commission
decided this week to
 RS>>>> act BK> in the RS>> interest of New Yorkers rather than
 BK>>>>> out-of-state conservative pundits RS>> and
voted to clear the
 BK>>>>> way for the construction of an Islamic center
RS>> in lower
 BK>>>>> Manhattan, a few blocks from the site where the World Trade
 RS>>>>>>> that this site of A

 RC>>>>>> It is unacceptable to alot of people...

 BK>>>>> Which is not relevant to constitutional rights.

 RS>>>> The US is a country with majority Christian as a faith.

 RS>>>> We also get horror stories almost on a daily basis in our
 RS>>>> media, of atrocities caused by radical Muslims.

 RS>>>> So it's only natural, when polled, people are going to answer
 RS>>>> "no" to a question "Should a mosque be
allowed to be built at
 RS>>>> Ground Zero?"

 RS>>>> Rephrase the question accurately, "Should a moderate Muslim
 RS>>>> organization be allowed to build a community center 2 blocks
 RS>>>> from Ground Zero?"

 RS>>>> That will get a more positive result for the poll.

 RS>>>> But people are also susceptible to demagoguery.

 JB>>> Let us know when you have those poll results and how you will
 JB>>> gauge moderate Mulsims. Until then, this is conjecture and
 JB>>> wishful thinking.

 EH>> What Otto Ar-Kay wants everyone to believe is that the polls so far
 EH>> have used the words "should be allowed." In fact, the
polls I have
 EH>> seen have asked if Imam Rauf and his Cordoba Project has the right to
 EH>> build there and a large majority agrees they do while an equal
 EH>> majority then answer that Rauf should build it elsewhere if he truly
 EH>> wants to build bridges between cultures.

 EH>> Insisting that it's merely a community center ignores the fact that a
 EH>> mosque is a major part of the building.

 EH>> What is evident about Otto Ar-Kay and his fellow travelers' support
 EH>> for the Cordoba project Park 51 mosque is that Obama and many pundits
 EH>> on the left have put their support behind it. They make noise about
 EH>> how anyone who opposes Rauf's decision to build there must be a
 EH>> religious bigot or pandering to religious bigots until several
 EH>> prominent Democrats have voiced their opposition.

 EH>> What I find hilariously hypocritical is that many, if not most of
 EH>> those now supporting the mosque being built at Park 51 oppose Glenn
 EH>> Beck's 8-28 "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln
memorial. While
 EH>> Obama administration members will be speaking at the anti-Beck rally
 EH>> put together by Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King's niece will be
 EH>> speaking at Beck's rally.

 JB> These people hate this country but just can't bring themselves to admit
 JB> it.

Among themselves, they admit it, in public they deny it.

Ed

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