tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post8982383226784318755..comments2023-11-12T00:30:15.262+09:00Comments on Monster Island (actually a peninsula)*: I thought this was Americakushibohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-21658445329123503422010-08-25T15:31:02.127+09:002010-08-25T15:31:02.127+09:00Matt wrote:
I have a completely honest question, K...Matt wrote:<br /><b>I have a completely honest question, Kushibo. Why are liberals so quick to defend Islam and so quick to denounce Christianity?</b><br /><br />Let me get all Socratic on you and answer your question with a question: Are you so sure that's what's happening <i>here</i>? I could talk about how the left is full of people who don't like or trust the evangelical-led religious right, but I think that's so oversimplified to the point of being a useless statement. Case in point, the primary person defending the establishment of the mosque (me) is a Christian, while the one person making something of a (tentative) defense of the anti-mosque position (Sonagi) is a non-Christian. <br /><br />I don't know if I'm qualified to answer your question because (a) I am not quick to denounce Christianity (but I do like to skewer hypocritical Bible thumpers; it's what Jesus would do) and (b) I don't know if I count as a liberal. I hold some liberal views, but I'm mostly a moderate (and, read the side bar, highly distrustful of Democrats, particularly the most left-leaning).<br /><br />At any rate, this position I'm taking is not a defense of Islam (some of its followers are very bad people), and it certainly is not a denunciation of Christianity. Rather, it is a spirited defense of our First Amendment, particularly the part about the government impeding the right of free exercise of religion, and a criticism of those who would take away those rights because of popular sentiment (especially when they have been involved in whipping up that sentiment). <br /><br />For me (and this relates to how I would answer Sonagi's point), this issue is not merely <i>private</i> citizens expressing their disappointment about what they consider sacrilege at Ground Zero, but rather a blatant attack on our Constitution, <i>because the politicians who would lead our country in a couple years are trying to block it</i>. Sarah Palin wants to be our PRESIDENT and she is trying to block free practice of religion of an unpopular religious faith. <br /><br />Does that not shock and anger you as Americans?kushibohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-23790502104513612692010-08-25T15:11:25.143+09:002010-08-25T15:11:25.143+09:00I have a completely honest question, Kushibo. Why ...I have a completely honest question, Kushibo. Why are liberals so quick to defend Islam and so quick to denounce Christianity?Rodney from Pilsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12762871849117479882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-58584529090178952742010-08-24T13:18:00.916+09:002010-08-24T13:18:00.916+09:00I don't live in NYC, and could really care les...I don't live in NYC, and could really care less about it, but I do find it in really poor taste to rub salt in such a fresh wound in country were public sentiment is not exactly running in your favor at the moment. By the way, you might want to catch this past week's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/samantha-zalaznick/mad-men-recap-the-shame-g_b_691859.html" rel="nofollow">Mad Men</a> to see how certain members of the advertising world dealt with the having to work with the Japanese doing their own invading of America (Honda) back in 1965.<br /><br />Also, sooner than you think, you may not be saying, "Amen. (Can I say that?) Maybe this is America," if you know anything about <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">Taqiyya</a> as the governments of certain European countries are now finding out firsthand.John from Daejeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08431973044799010218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3869680.post-16391073116568759082010-08-24T10:42:15.244+09:002010-08-24T10:42:15.244+09:00The comparison with Pearl Harbor doesn't work ...The comparison with Pearl Harbor doesn't work because few people alive today actually remember it happening. The old wound is healed and the scar faded. Not so with 9/11. Every year our school and many others commemorate the day, and during a brief morning ceremony, our principal struggles to explain something complex to children who have no memory of it. It's easy for me to see that a mosque near Ground Zero is not a victory for Islam but a victory for our great value of religious freedom, but since I was outside the country and didn't watch the events unfold on TV, I don't have the emotional investment that many Americans have. Nobody in my little town is talking about the mosque, however, so it doesn't seem to be a genuine national issue, but rather one manufactured by political opportunists, and judging by today's headlines, the conflict has gotten ugly with protesters surrounding a man with a skullcap.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com