The location of the mosque is interesting.
I do agree that fundamentalist Islam is going to use the presence and location as a talking point. This is unavoidable.
It is also going to backfire, but not necessarily in the fashion that they are expecting. I find many of the tenets of Islam toxic; which is okay. I find many of the tenets of Christianity toxic.
Christianity though, at least in the first world, has had its teeth pulled. Or rather punched out and hung around its neck. Secular law trumping religious authority. Yes there is still a lot of evil being done in their name; from their stand on contraception and HPV vaccination; but this is the same shit they've been pulling for years. These are the same dip-shits who spoke out again vaccination; Rubella, polio, etc. Guess what, in the third world, some Bishops and ArchBishops are still doing just that. As well as lying about the efficacy of condoms in preventing AIDS.
Islam isn't any better, and vaccinations in Muslim countries, including Afghanistan are often stymied by head-so-far-up-arse-they-are-fellating-their-appendix imams; who speak out on it as a plot to sterilize Muslims.
In both case these twat-donkeys (and I mean that in the nicest way); are effectively murdering the faithful; who have erroneously placed their trust in these ass-hats. It isn't just the religion either - that lying fuck Wakefield and celebrity douche-supreme Jenny McCarthy has a lot to answer for.
But I digress.
The US Constitution is a wonderful thing. The founders had more collected awesome than trampoline and whipped cream day at the Playboy mansion. Freedom of speech is an insidious thing; and I mean that in the best way possible. Draw Muhammad day really grabbed back the inertia from the fundamentalist kill-dems-dat-draw-da-pedo-prophet hooligans. It is just going to keep growing. Islam in America is going to mutate into something entirely different, and far more enlightened, and that in turn is going to poison the well of the nastier fundamentalist versions. You can expect Piss-Muhammad next to Piss-Christ at the gallery sooner rather than later.
Free speech will kick the teeth out of Islam; and string them around its neck. Equality for women, tolerance for homosexuals, it is coming, and an Islamic presence in America is going to hasten this. There is going to be short term pain; but I think it will ultimately be worth it.
I do agree that fundamentalist Islam is going to use the presence and location as a talking point. This is unavoidable.
It is also going to backfire, but not necessarily in the fashion that they are expecting. I find many of the tenets of Islam toxic; which is okay. I find many of the tenets of Christianity toxic.
Christianity though, at least in the first world, has had its teeth pulled. Or rather punched out and hung around its neck. Secular law trumping religious authority. Yes there is still a lot of evil being done in their name; from their stand on contraception and HPV vaccination; but this is the same shit they've been pulling for years. These are the same dip-shits who spoke out again vaccination; Rubella, polio, etc. Guess what, in the third world, some Bishops and ArchBishops are still doing just that. As well as lying about the efficacy of condoms in preventing AIDS.
Islam isn't any better, and vaccinations in Muslim countries, including Afghanistan are often stymied by head-so-far-up-arse-they-are-fellating-their-appendix imams; who speak out on it as a plot to sterilize Muslims.
In both case these twat-donkeys (and I mean that in the nicest way); are effectively murdering the faithful; who have erroneously placed their trust in these ass-hats. It isn't just the religion either - that lying fuck Wakefield and celebrity douche-supreme Jenny McCarthy has a lot to answer for.
But I digress.
The US Constitution is a wonderful thing. The founders had more collected awesome than trampoline and whipped cream day at the Playboy mansion. Freedom of speech is an insidious thing; and I mean that in the best way possible. Draw Muhammad day really grabbed back the inertia from the fundamentalist kill-dems-dat-draw-da-pedo-prophet hooligans. It is just going to keep growing. Islam in America is going to mutate into something entirely different, and far more enlightened, and that in turn is going to poison the well of the nastier fundamentalist versions. You can expect Piss-Muhammad next to Piss-Christ at the gallery sooner rather than later.
Free speech will kick the teeth out of Islam; and string them around its neck. Equality for women, tolerance for homosexuals, it is coming, and an Islamic presence in America is going to hasten this. There is going to be short term pain; but I think it will ultimately be worth it.