Mosque at 51 Park Place, NY, NY

[Pete Zicato]

Palin tweets in on the mosque

http://www.newsweek.com/spectrum/201...-new-word.html

[BigV]

Originally Posted by wolf

"Christian Identity" is a sect closely associated with the KKK, Aryan Nation, and other white supremacist groups. They're not your average Christians.

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Why not lump Christians together, if we're doing it to Muslims?

good fucking question.

I doubt you'll get a substantive answer. Ever.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by BigV

I doubt you'll get a substantive answer. Ever.

To a rhetorical question, however good and fucking?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

To a rhetorical question, however good and fucking?

yes.

why not? you deal in rhetoric *all* the time, now you're shy?

as i said, a substative answer to this substantive question is probably not coming soon. What did you used to call that kind of double standard? Oh yeah... moral equivalence.

[Shawnee123]

Hahaha...on a related note re: her new word:

Refudiate: (verb) a word Sarah Palin just coined on Twitter.

Meaning: something "peaceful muslims" should "pls" do.

Use in a sentence: "Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate."

Country of Origin: Unclear, but you can see Russia.

~snip~

Maybe she'll prove me wrong and "refudiate" will catch on. But if she runs in 2012, I hope we’re horpswangling enough to grountify her. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/pos...s_new_pol.html

[Happy Monkey]

She "corrected" herself later by changing it to "refute". Which is a difficult thing to do to a building.

[Shawnee123]

So she, herself, did not know she might have meant:

re·pu·di·ate/riˈpyo͞odēˌāt/Verb
1. Refuse to accept or be associated with.

[Pico and ME]

Its just too silly and shows an impressive narrow mindedness to agree with Palins assessment. Shes an idiot.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

She "corrected" herself later by changing it to "refute". Which is a difficult thing to do to a building.

She wasn't talking to a building she was talking to moderate muslims . . . not that it really matters. (see below)

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

Shes an idiot.

Yup and if the R's select her as their candidate then I am getting the BEST and going 100% conspiracy theorist cuz thats as good as giving the election away. (not that I'm impressed by any other candidate they have to offer)

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by classicman

She wasn't talking to a building she was talking to moderate muslims . . . not that it really matters. (see below)

And asking them to refudiate and/or refute the building.

[spudcon]

Originally Posted by classicman

She wasn't talking to a building she was talking to moderate muslims . . . not that it really matters. (see below)

Yup and if the R's select her as their candidate then I am getting the BEST and going 100% conspiracy theorist cuz thats as good as giving the election away. (not that I'm impressed by any other candidate they have to offer)

As opposed to Obama or Biden?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

Its just too silly and shows an impressive narrow mindedness to agree with Palins assessment. Shes an idiot.

Nah. The narrowmindedness is all on the anti-Palin side. Were you not a dreadful troglodyte you might have perceived that. Leftism makes you blind.

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Leftism makes you blind.

And rightism makes you stupid.

No wonder politics is so messy.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Leftism makes you blind.

If I represent Leftism then you are incorrect. But then if you represent Rightism, I have nothing to worry about.

In truth, I'm a fool for even replying. But I think that is down to me as a person, regardless of social class, political ideology, genetic makeup or upbringing.

Rising to a bait that obvious must be a sign of evolution.
<flap,flap,sigh>

[Lamplighter]

NY Times 7/31/10
Bold for emphasis added by me.

An influential Jewish organization on Friday announced its opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque two blocks north of ground zero in Lower Manhattan, intensifying a fierce national debate about the limits of religious freedom and the meaning of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The decision by the group, the Anti-Defamation League, touched off angry reactions from a range of religious groups, which argued that the country would show its tolerance and values by welcoming the center near the site where radical Muslims killed about 2,750 people.

<snip>

Oz Sultan, the programming director for the center, said the complex was based on Jewish community centers and Y.M.C.A.’s in Manhattan.
It is to have a board composed of Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders and is intended to create a national model of moderate Islam.
“We are looking to build bridges between faiths,” Mr. Sultan said in an interview.

<snip>

City officials, particularly Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, have forcefully defended the project on the grounds of religious freedom, saying that government has no place dictating where a house of worship is located. The local community board has given overwhelming backing to the project, and the city’s landmarks commission is expected to do the same on Tuesday.

For me, this action by the ADL is short sighted, and says "Don't discriminate against us, but do discriminate against them"
It's another example of "puking on your own reputation".