I don't have a whole lot to add to the argument about the flap about the Islamic Cultural Center they want to build a couple of blocks from the World Trade Center site.
Just a couple of things.
How far away do you want this thing? Eight blocks? A couple of miles?
Are you actually suggesting we start zoning religious sites?
Yes, the people who attacked us on 9/11 were Muslims.
And on April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City, we were attacked by white Christians. So let's agree, no Protestant churches within two blocks of the Murrow Building?
Fuck, Scott Roeder gave his life to Jesus on his knees in front of the TV because Pat Robertson told him to. How about we not allow the 700 Club to be broadcast in the Wichita area?
Let's go all the way. Anywhere there are victims of religious violence, let's pick a radius and ban that religion out of respect for the dead.
Maybe if the same people who were saying "Let them build the Islamic Center farther away," weren't also protesting the erection of Mosques in Tennessee, Wisconsin, California and, well, anywhere in America, they wouldn't sound so goddamn silly.
So please stop saying that the terrorists hate our freedom. Because you have already given them that.
You throw the word "freedom" around, but you either do not believe in it or you just don't understand it.
Either way, when you say it, it sounds hollow and I don't believe you.
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