Friday, September 10, 2010

Regarding the New York City mosque controversy part one

Much has been said, of course, and I doubt I can say very much more. But of course I will. Taking in everything I see and read, there is a trend I am starting to notice. From being anti to indifferent to pro mosque, I have seen many muslims addressing the issue from all sides and points of view. This is quite as it should be, Americans debating. The side that disturbs me is not these people (apart from some of the foreign ties of the imams) but the young white middle class protesters who proclaim any opposition to it to be a matter of hate. Once again, middle America is portrayed as evil and racist, and nothing further needs be said. If our educated youth cannot see diverging view points and paint everything other than they and their professors views as ignorance and bigotry. This to me seems a dangerous thing. The very mortal problem of fundamentalism and their willingness to kill us indiscriminately is that to them there can be no other viewpoint. Right or wrong, black and white. And from this, holy war.

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