On AOL News, Glynnis MacNicol writes a nice article about her thoughts on the recent outrage over the proposed mosque a few blocks away from ground zero.
MacNicol imagined that the Muslim community center would be a non-issue for New Yorkers, and instead, would be a sticking point for Sarah Palin and Americans who would never dream of stepping foot inside the dreaded five boroughs.
She was wrong. Violence and protests have spread throughout New York in the past few weeks, and what’s shocking to MacNicol and many others is that much of this anger is being generated by honest-to-goodness New Yorkers. What’s MacNicol’s reasoning for all this?
More than a few pundits these past two weeks have recalled President George W. Bush’s call for tolerance following the 9/11 attacks. But I also remember feeling at the time that the message wasn’t needed in New York as it might have been in other places. New York in the weeks and months following 9/11 was a city full of shell-shocked residents learning to live with day-to-day fear… In the aftermath of 9/11 in New York City, there was no emotional room for the sort of furor we have seen this mosque generate. None. So maybe all this current fury is really just a long-delayed, long-pent-up angry reaction to what happened… right now this ground zero mosque insanity is on the verge of becoming very scary and out of hand.
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Maybe this should tell people something!!! This is kind of like if an American cultural center/museum went up at ground zero for one of the atomic bombs in Japan, less than 10 years after they landed. Not a perfect analogy (especially considering that those were provocted and 9/11 most certainly was not – unless you’re a conspiracy theorist) but close enough!! Tolerance is one thing but some times things CANNOT be overlooked no matter how PC people want to be! People who aren’t bothered by this are pushing the boundaries between PCness and just being plain a**es This just isn’t right, plain and simple!!!
It’s not “at” it’s “near”.
America bombed Japan. The religion of Islam did not blow up the Trade Center.
JS: This might help you out. This has nothing to do with PC-ness. It’s a formal logic question — or more specifically, if I remember correctly from my undergrad logic courses, a lack of logical equivalence. The transitive property doesn’t work here. Yes, Al Qaeda is made up of Muslims. But this does not necessarily mean that Muslims are Al Qaeda. http://grabbingsand.tumblr.com/post/1014298579/less-than-0-00001-seanbonner-zadi
I love how even the NYTimes still calls this Islamic community center a “mosque” in the headlines, as if the editors aren’t hyperaware of every single word choice and its potential reaction by readers.
Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZpT2Muxoo0
Don’t groan because it’s Keith Olbermann. Give it a chance. Lots of facts people are totally ignoring in here. Also, MC Hammer retweeted it, so that has to count for something. http://twitter.com/mchammer/status/21500784662
This linked-to AOL article is an opinion piece and it is labeled as one. But the line about NYC being “on the verge of becoming very scary and out of hand†– this is a ludicrous statement.
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