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Laugh, damn you!
Aug. 25th, 2010 01:15 pmThis is probably the most entertaining essay ever on the "ground zero mosque" issue. Read it, I loved it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/23/charlie-brooker-ground-zero-mosque
A few days bac, I got bored, and prompted by a comic, looked some stuff up. Thought I posted it, but apparently didn't. So I'll tack it on here:
The proposed mosque site is 2 1/2 blocks from "ground zero", not at the actual site of destruction.
It also is not actually a mosque. The proposed Cordoba House is an Islamic Community Center, similar to a Jewish Community Center. It will contain a mosque/prayer area, just like a Christian Life Center would be expected to contain a chapel, or a Jewish Community Center to hold a synagogue. Besides the prayer space, the Initiative's plan includes a 500-seat auditorium, theater, performing arts center, fitness center, swimming pool, basketball court, childcare services, art exhibitions, bookstore, culinary school, and a food court.
There is already a mosque 3 blocks away, which has been there since the 70's. So far, nobody's burned it, or demanded it be moved.
There is also a strip club within 2 blocks of GZ, and nobody's up in arms about THAT.
There is a Catholic St. Peter's Church about a block away from GZ, the priest there is in favor of building this center.
Tangentially, did you know that Christian groups came in and put up a couple hundred crosses at Auschwitz? (most have since been removed.) I had no idea until I started following links from some of these articles. Seems rather ... hypocritical ... to me, to put a Catholic chapel actually inside the SS admin building at Birkenau, despite the protestations of hundreds of Jewish survivors and relatives of the massacred, and then turn around and have a fit about a community center 2 blocks away from a terrorist attack site.
(http://www.scrapbookpages.com/poland/Crosses/Crosses.html)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/23/charlie-brooker-ground-zero-mosque
Perhaps spatial reality functions differently on the other side of the Atlantic, but here in London, something that is "two minutes' walk and round a corner" from something else isn't actually "in" the same place at all. I once had a poo in a pub about two minutes' walk from Buckingham Palace. I was not subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen's pillow. That's how "distance" works in Britain. It's also how distance works in America, of course, but some people are currently pretending it doesn't, for daft political ends.
A few days bac, I got bored, and prompted by a comic, looked some stuff up. Thought I posted it, but apparently didn't. So I'll tack it on here:
The proposed mosque site is 2 1/2 blocks from "ground zero", not at the actual site of destruction.
It also is not actually a mosque. The proposed Cordoba House is an Islamic Community Center, similar to a Jewish Community Center. It will contain a mosque/prayer area, just like a Christian Life Center would be expected to contain a chapel, or a Jewish Community Center to hold a synagogue. Besides the prayer space, the Initiative's plan includes a 500-seat auditorium, theater, performing arts center, fitness center, swimming pool, basketball court, childcare services, art exhibitions, bookstore, culinary school, and a food court.
There is already a mosque 3 blocks away, which has been there since the 70's. So far, nobody's burned it, or demanded it be moved.
There is also a strip club within 2 blocks of GZ, and nobody's up in arms about THAT.
There is a Catholic St. Peter's Church about a block away from GZ, the priest there is in favor of building this center.
Tangentially, did you know that Christian groups came in and put up a couple hundred crosses at Auschwitz? (most have since been removed.) I had no idea until I started following links from some of these articles. Seems rather ... hypocritical ... to me, to put a Catholic chapel actually inside the SS admin building at Birkenau, despite the protestations of hundreds of Jewish survivors and relatives of the massacred, and then turn around and have a fit about a community center 2 blocks away from a terrorist attack site.
(http://www.scrapbookpages.com/poland/Crosses/Crosses.html)
