The Manhattan Mosque

Hello blog, I'm sure for almost anyone you ask you get a different opinion on this subject. For those of you who don’t know a Mosque (A place for Muslim worship) is to be built in lower Manhattan (near the 9/11 tragedy). A lot of people say it's disrespectful and shouldn't be built. I think that's bullcrap. We as a country are built on freedom of religion. No matter how distasteful we may think it is, they have the right to build their mosque near there.




And why is it thought to be disrespectful? Need I remind you there were thousands of deaths in the 9/11 attacks. Instead of thinking of the perpetrators try to think about the victims and the fact that innocent Muslims did die in that attack. So instead of saying they are secretly praising the attacks remember that there were actual innocent Muslim lives lost in that attack. If there was, say, a bombing today and the perpetrator was a Christian, does that mean that nowhere near this certain area a Christian church can be built? Just because a tragedy is committed by a few radicals does not mean that the constitution should be bent. Those laws are firmly put there not to be a popularity contest.

Remember these attacks were done by a HANDFUL of radicals to us. To get all bent out of shape about people who did not do those attacks and restrict their place of worship is wrong to me. If a Christian was to shoot a person on a property and a few years later a church wanted to be built over that area or near by it, do I then have the right to say you can’t build that there because someone of your faith took another man’s life there? That's generalizing an entire culture of people based on one person or in this case a handful of radicals.



I don’t see why were saying they are intentionally disrespecting us. Like I said before, innocent Muslims died in that incident. So perhaps they are building it to commemorate those people. But even then let’s say they did do it out of disrespect, do we still have the right to tell them to get lost? We don’t arrest these reject teenagers running around at my school saying "Praise Hitler" and doing the Nazi salute (I've seen it many times) we don’t persecute them. Speaking of Nazi's, in the 70s a group of Nazi's in Cleveland wanted to drive with the Nazi flag through a Jewish neighborhood in Cleveland and they had backing support from organizations. But on this Mosque situation these same organizations want to say "Now hold on a minute" or "Were not so sure.”

Quit generalizing an entire culture of people based on a group of radicals. Every culture, every country, every religion has a group of radicals or an individual in it that does something that all other groups scoff at. Let's say hypothetically the majority of Muslims practiced what takes place in the Middle East every day. Even if it is a majority, it does not imply ALL of them do that. Just like not all Christians go to church, or not all fat people like McDonalds, or not all Gays have a poster of Adam Lambert in their bedrooms.



These people need to stop complaining, the constitution isn't bent just because of sensitivity because you take something the wrong way or maybe even the right way. We have religious freedom here and it changes no matter how we may oppose it.



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