No, it isn't unless one misinterprets the Constitution OR the government dictates that it is the new officially accepted religion. The existence alone isn't an endorsement or a violation of the Constitution.
Actually you may not know what I am talking about and actually if it is built, it is an endorsement of a religion by the standards set forth and going against a number sc rulings and our constitution.
We as a nation are building a monument to a man who was a religious leader first and foremost, who ran churches and who preached the word of God. It is a direct symbol that we don't give a crap about our laws or ethics, as long as it appeases a group it is alright - Look there Layout Group Guilt!
Islam's standing as a religion is tenuous at best. It is a legal/political system masquerading as a religion. The majority of Muslims are either ignorant of or choose to ignore the evil inherent in it and focus on the "religious" tangent. The radicals, those who engineered 9/11 and continue to wish for and work for the death of ALL infidels, are the political members who use the ignorant masses and "religion" to achieve their legal/political goals.
Leo, what makes you an expert?
How often do you actually mingle with Muslims?
I find some of your statement obtuse in what you are portraying Muslims as.
So let's put it another way.
The majority of poor are either ignorant of or choose to ignore the evil inherent in our social system and focus on the getting what they can without putting anything into the system or attempting to do so. The radicals, those who engineered a power grab and continue to wish for and work for the downfall of ALL who work hard, are the political members who use the ignorant masses and "greed" of the masses to achieve their legal/political goals.
You're comparing apples and oranges. Those religions didn't cloak a political movement dedicated to our subjugation. The Jews and Blacks weren't commiting terrorist attacks against us were they?
AH, right.
First, I don't see any religion cloaking a political movement dedicated to our subjugation. I see small groups of people who are well educated, controlling other small groups of people using a religion but hasn't this happened in the past with other religions.
I do remember something about the Black movement committing terrorist acts, Black Panthers were one such group but I also remember reading about Wall Street being bombed, a take over of a museum and a few other incidents in NYC that were caused by a small group of people
Some seemingly want to have it both ways - but considering this attack was an act of war, it was indeed a national event. That being the case, the public opposition against the building of the mosque is even greater.
But the public can oppose what they want, it doesn't matter. What seems to matter is if we are a country of religious freedoms or not - period.
When we step out of the rule of law and become the rule of the people, we open ourselves up to the whims of others who will in every way control us and make us slaves. IF we want to prevent that, everyone is equal, everyone has the same rights as everyone else with no exception and especially no interference by the public's opinion.
Once we become that type democracy, we are a true lost nation, no better than those who are our enemies, like NK and Iran.
The Rev. Phelps and his inbred nitwits that make up the Westboro Baptist Church have the legal right to protest at the funerals of our fallen soldiers. Maybe you would like to have them across the street from your son's gravesite waving signs saying "God Hates
s" and "Good Riddance"?? Evidently they have the legal right to do this due to our constitutional rights of free speech and religious practices. However, I think that all of us would agree that they should practice their free speech and religion out of sight and hearing distance from the mourners because their exercise of their legal rights is INAPPROPRIATE in those particular circumstances.
I see your point and do agree but that is not what is happening here. They are not building a church across the street from Arlington, they are protesting. Should we burn their church and kill their followers because we don't agree with them?
Perhaps the jihadists are using that faulty perception in their propoganda - that we are attacking their way of life - but that's hardly the case. It's just that our culture and our way of life is contradictory to THEIR way of life as dictated by their religion. These radicals are following their fundamentalist interpretation of their religious mandates that non-muslims be conquered. If anything, they are attacking OUR way of life. We are far more tolerant and accomodating to them and their religion then they are of us and ours. Try visiting Mecca sometime. Check to see how many churches or synagogues have been built lately in close proximity to their sacred sites.
I do agree that the fundamentalist is the issue here, not the mainstream follower. BUT this is the case within all religions, our culture is not theirs, even those who are within our border feel this way. We have our own home grown fundamentalist who view Jews as enemies, Catholics as enemies and can't tell the difference between a Buddhist and a Hindu.
Accommodation is not the same as servitude.
Accommodation where?
In other countries?
Why should we worry about what happens there when we have issues here. People are ignorant to the fact that for hundreds of years, Jews, Christians and Muslims all lived together and still do. NOW we have outside forces dictating to many countries and it causes the problems - ever hear of the UN?
Attacking our way of life?
5 Million Muslims are attacking our way of life?
We seem to be too big to have that happen. If anything, it is ourselves attacking ourselves to appease the few ... but then again ... we are doing that outside the subject of religion.
Mecca has little to do with it, Saudi Arabia is not governed by our constitution, they don't fall under our form of government, we do. I looked all over my map of Stato della Citta del Vatican and can't see anywhere a Synagogue or Mosque or even an Baptist Church. Should we demand the Pope put in a Lutheran Church?
