Single What? Female...

'Cuz it really just more posturing...

I am getting real tired of people succumbing to the conservative fear mongering and posturing when it comes to the "Ground Zero Mosque".

Again, all it takes is a handful of words, Ground Zero Mosque, and people get freaked out, and then Fox news and other such folk start fanning the flames of fear, and next thing you know Harry Reid and Howard Dean, rather than try to put out the fire, pick up a fan and join the hell in.

I was here that day. I remember looking down Lexington, Park, Madison, Fifth and Sixth Avenues and seeing the billowing smoke. My husband (who I hadn't met yet) was trapped underground on the subway. I know many others who saw one or both of the towers fall and/or saw people jump from the towers.

We were attacked. By terrorists. Now these terrorists, happened to be Muslim. Not all Muslims are extremist or terrorists. Some of them are in our military. Many are community leaders. Our government does business with Muslims (Saudi Arabia, etc) and we are actually fighting a war not just against them but FOR them-yes, FOR two countries full of innocent Muslims. We are helping everyday Muslims to fight extremist Muslims. Just a reminder...

Also, even though it should not matter, the Cordoba center is a) not being built at Ground Zero, but rather two blocks away, and b) is not a mosque. It is a community center that has a prayer room. And a pool. oooooo...they'll be swimming...

There are strip clubs, churches and tacky shops and somehow they are all allowed in the neighborhood, but not this community center. (which has actually been there since December 2009, they are just expanding.)

I understand how people are hurting. We, sadly, remain at war and extremists are still out there. But we have to remember that just because a community center is being built, it does not mean that it is going to be populated with extreme Muslims. If ever there was a time for tolerance, it would be now. There is enough division and fear out there, why must various politicians and pundits encourage it?

Just boggles my mind that people would rather listen to the fearmongerers than look into this themselves, show some tolerance and actually try to eradicate the hate and bigotry rather than bolstering it.

KEEP PAYING ATTENTION!!!

Peace --Alex

posted by funkweee @ 1:38 PM