Much ado about nothing?
I think we're all getting played on the issues of the "Ground Zero" mosque, AND the Florida pastor's threatened burning of the Koran.
Mosque, Shmosque...I hate the thought that a mosque is being built near the place where thousands fell to the evil purposes of terrorists who declare Islam their religion...Probably as much as abortion providers hate it that the law allows protestors to stand across the street from their clinics. The obvious point being that we are free to express ourselves as long as we do not break the law. We are free to have poor taste, be stupid, be confrontational and insensitive, and even be a bully -- along with all the appropriate ways there are to express ourselves.
If the builders of this mosque are trying to express the ultimate "neener, neener" to the United States, how should we respond? Don't bullies grow in power, as their victims grow loud protestations? I think indifference might be the most appropriate response. If their "parishioners" (?) are as moderate as they claim, do you think they will want to be seen attending this particular mosque? This issue may have already died, except that the media blew up the conflict to give it life...And so many have fallen for it, spending much loud energy opposing it...
Then there's a little issue with the owner of the property...I've heard that a buyer with 20 million could come in and make the whole conflict go away...Just buy the property from the mosque builders...What a clever way to increase the value of property...get the whole country angry, upset, incensed, offended...and just a few million sacrificed by someone will make SO many people happy...
Pardon my cynicism, but I think that the Florida pastor may have shown his ulterior motives for the Koran burning stunt as well...First, who would have ever known this guy if he had not proposed this activity? Second, for a little bit, it looked like HE would be the one to make the whole country happy by striking a deal to stop the "Ground Zero" mosque...a hero!
Seriously, Pastor -- you think the Islamic radicals are that upset about 200 Korans being burned? Come on! "Oh, please, please don't burn our Korans! We'll stop plans to build that mosque immediately if you just don't burn our holy book!" Ridiculous that this Pastor even believed that it was possible...I'm sorry, hero will not apply in this case. It's all foolishness...
To me, it was all much ado about nothing until I heard our President make a plea to the Florida pastor to not burn the Koran because of the suffering that would be caused by his action. Mr. Obama implied that our servicemen & women might be harmed...
Neither is this an appropriate response to a bully..."Please don't do anything to make the terrorists mad. We don't want to get hurt..." assumes powerlessness. We won't stand on our principles. We won't stand against evil done against our people. We are committed to doing whatever it takes to keep from getting hurt...What?
I can't believe that our President would communicate such a weak position to the terrorists and to the world. I'm appalled...angry...embarassed...and I'm sad for our country.
God help us to be committed more to what is RIGHT than to what is comfortable...
And God help us discern the truth in every situation so we are not deceived into inadvertently aggrandizing the "players" who create situations that hurt our country for their own gain...
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