Image via WikipediaWell I am learning a lot more facts about the Mosque that was to be built near ground zero. Basically what I am learning is that politicians saw an issue where no issue existed and they all jumped on it and to me, they not only made assholes of themselves but did this country and its citizens a disservice and I am talking about both Democrats and Republicans.
I have learned that the American Imam and his wife that proposed the building of an Islamic community center have not collected a dime to put towards the project; it is only a dream right now.
I have also learned that there is a chapel at the Pentagon that is being used a lot by Muslims to conduct prayer services. It was originally built after 9/11 as a place of prayer for all religions at the site of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon where many people lost their lives. This chapel has existed for a long time now and no one has complained about the frequent use of the chapel by Muslims.
The New York Times had a lengthy article about the Muslim cleric and his family that is involved in the proposed building of the Muslim Community Center. It appears that the cleric has been involved in teaching the Muslim communities around the world that Islam and America are compatible and can co-exist in a Democratic society such as in the United States. He believes that American Islam can teach other Islamic societies how to co-exist with other religions on a worldwide basis. This does not sound like some hot headed radical hell bent on destroying the U.S. as some hot headed politicians, trying to score points with other hot heads in this country, are trying to suggest.
In fact, it appears that our own State Department has used this cleric to lecture other Muslims on American Islam and how it is growing in this country without any problems and why would a country that has a thriving Muslim community want to wage war on Islam?
The New York Times is also suggesting that FOX NEWS and its owner may have a role in creating this uproar as a means of discrediting President Obama and scaring the nation into voting a certain way in the upcoming elections. This is a dirty business as we all know but after Bush and his cohorts lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq just to have an excuse to start a war with Iraq, then I believe anything is possible including the manipulation of facts that FOX has been known to do, to justify the end product desired which is putting Republicans back in charge so they can continue the same shit they were doing under Bush.
FOX News has also been shown on past videos to actually support the Muslim cleric and his wife in what they are trying to do which is to teach people about a peaceful Islam in America; what changed?
FOX has now accused the Imam of getting money from dangerous foreign sources BUT Jon Stewart of the Daily Show has revealed that the dangerous source is none other than a very rich Arab that owns a big chunk of the FOX network along with Murdoch. He is also the Muslim that wanted to give New York 10 million dollars after 9/11 but his money was refused; see how dumb we can be?
The point is that we cannot condemn an entire religion and all adherents to that religion for the dastardly deeds of a few radicals; that is plain stupid and we know better.
At first I sympathized with people that felt a mosque close to ground zero would be insensitive BUT the more I am finding out about what is really going on, the more I smell a rat, a big rat and the more I want to know who is behind this manipulation and creation of false facts/news that we Americans are so eager to believe; we are just so gullible, it isn’t funny.
I am happy to see that people are starting to protest FOR the mosque; even people who have lost loved ones in 9/11, a few that were also Muslim, saying that they did not want the lives of their loved ones to stand for religious oppression in a country with freedom of religion as its main tenet.
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