[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[Horse]

  Hi David

On 19/08/2010 13:13, David Thomas wrote:
> Hi Horse
>>    Do I detect a note of sarcasm Mr Thomas?
> Are you psychic this morning (or whatever it is there) or what?

It's just about afternoon here in sunny Blighty and I'm afraid my pschic 
abilities don't kick in properly until the evening after a beer or a 
spliff. However, being of the same stock as Sherlock Holmes I do possess 
uncanny detective abilities!! So it was elementary my dear boy! :)

However, I was just wondering why, in a country that, apparently, prides 
itself on a constitutional right to freedom of religion, and the 
practice thereof, there should be so much opposition to establishing a 
mosque in close proximity to the 9/11 site. I could understand it if it 
was an Al Qaeda recruitment centre but it appears to be no more than 
what it is. A place of religious worship. Can't stand these places 
personally, be they Islamic, Christian, Jewish or whatever as places of 
religion - they're sometimes OK in architectural/artistic terms but 
that's about it.
And a mosque is for the use of Moslem folk to come to worship in a 
similar way that Christians and Jews have their places to worship. Would 
the same people who object to this mosque object to a Japanese cultural 
centre in Hawaii, a German travel agency in Israel or a church in 
Jerusalem? Or perhaps the Catholic church should dismantle and recycle 
their churches where there have been practising paedophile priests 
(although that would probably leave very few Catholic churches standing).
It seems to me that there is a degree of hypocrisy on display here in 
the way your fellow Americans view and treat the Islamic faith when 
compared to the way you treat the Christian and Jewish faiths. The vast 
majority of Moslems had nothing to do with 9/11 and so, in fairness, 
should not be penalised for the way in which a very few Moslems 
belonging to Al Qaeda have behaved. That just seems reasonable to me.

Cheers

Horse

> My original impulse was to leave the first sentence the same and and then
> says something like:
>
> For the exterior we could do ceramic mosaics celebrating the divine life of
> the pig. From Porky Pig to the porkchop. The entire building would be
> dedicated buying and selling all things pig, from trading pork bellies to
> pig skin shoes, belts, and accessories.
>
> But that was just too obvious.
>> On 19/08/2010 12:44, David Thomas wrote:
>>> I like it Dave. A mosque with twin minarets taller than the original towers.
>>> Then post a special division of Marines there to require any and all
>>> visiting the site to take their shoes off, wash their feet, and bow towards
>>> Mecca. Great idea!
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