It feels strange weighing in on a house of worship thousands of miles away, well, at least for me. A proposed mosque two blocks from Ground Zero has Palin tweeting on a Sunday afternoon.
According to Politico:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's City Hall hit back at Palin, first tweeting "@SarahPalinUSA mind your business."The aide, policy hand Andrea Batista Schlesinger, followed that up with:
"@SarahPalinUSA whose hearts? Racist hearts?"
Bloomberg has defended the plan for the mosque, arguing that blocking it would impinge on religious freedom
For NYC, 9/11 was a day many Alaskans couldn't fathom. I'd never been there. My father didn't know about the terrorist attack for weeks because he was on the Koyukuk River hunting moose. Another hunter was informed after a military escort surrounded his small aircraft on his return to town. Last year I visited New York City and wept when I realized how terrifying it must have been. I had no context until I stood in the canyons of buildings.
Do you want to guess how many mosques are in Wasilla?
The "stab through the heart" of 9/11 was felt by many, including Muslims. This article tells of some victims that day:
Imagine being the family of Salman Hamdani. The 23-year-old New York City police cadet was a part-time ambulance driver, incoming medical student, and devout Muslim. When he disappeared on September 11, law enforcement officials came to his family, seeking him for questioning in relation to the terrorist attacks. They allegedly believed he was somehow involved. His whereabouts were undetermined for over six months, until his remains were finally identified. He was found near the North Tower, with his EMT medical bag beside him, presumably doing everything he could to help those in need. His family could finally rest, knowing that he died the hero they always knew him to be.
Imagine being Baraheen Ashrafi, nine months pregnant with her second child. Her husband, Mohammad Chowdhury, was a waiter at Windows of the World restaurant, on the top floors of Tower One. The morning of September 11, they prayed salaat-l-fajr (the pre-dawn prayer) together, and he went off to work. She never saw him again. Their son, Farqad, was born 48 hours after the attacks -- one of the first 9/11 orphans to be born.
What about the thousands of Muslims who serve in our military? Does that yellow magnet on your car say "Support the Christian Troops"?
Maybe Sarah Palin's soon to be released little book of "Clever Sayings That Rock!" will include George Santayana's "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Almost 110,000 Japanese Americans were interned in 26 different camps after the Pearl Harbor attacks. 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the US Military during the same time.
I trust New Yorkers.
If we become a country willing to discriminate against people of faith, we will have become the extremism we fight.
Follow Shannyn Moore on Twitter: www.twitter.com/shannynmoore
www.yuregininsesi.com
More importantly in my opinion, is the message it sends to the world, especially the Muslim world. Allowing the Islamic Center to be built in that location is saying the we understand the difference between the extremists that attacked us on 9/11 and the majority of Muslims. We are saying in spite of what happened on that terrible day we will stand by our commitment to religious freedom and tolerance. We won't abandon our principles because of fear or hate.
While we all were impacted that day NYC bears the scars. I was proud of the city and people on that day, the days that followed, and to this day. This is their choice and I support them. I doubt Palin has ever even talked to a Muslim.
Before you put your rude and "cute" little comments (that really aren't that clever) in another blog condemning "Faux" news, try watching Glenn Beck or Fox News. You might learn something. It is important to get your information from numerous sources if you really want the whole picture. Ask yourselves, do you really want to do the right thing or do you just like the label "Democrat" or "liberal", or even worse, "progressive" as an accessory, like a new necklace? Most of you are so ignorant but this is fun for you isn't it? You are destroying something that exists no where else in the world. People escape from everywhere to here for a reason and you want to destroy it. One day you will look back on your actions and be ashamed, I guarantee it.
What's so cute is you really seem to think you're on to something.
At least you're a true believer. Confused and misled, but apparently sincere.
Is there no contribution to American affairs from Muslims or other minorities and non-natives? Not a single positive they've made to the economy or other aspects of American life? Did all caucasians who came to America hate the Native Americans? Of course not. Some of America's topmost achievers, like Ben Carson, Condoleeza Rice, Steven Spielberg, all belong to foreign culture, some of which is totally (and radically removed from what Palin has lived all her life.
What does her own party stand for? Dividing society or uniting the nation to achieve the founding fathers' ideals? It is Palin who is actually anti everything American - the Dream, freedom of speech, democracy and the spiritual torch of the world. It is she who ought to do soul searching and ask what she truly is all about.
We've all drunk from wells we never dug, don't turn now Palin (and others of likemind) and poop in the same!
Her own "party" is a fiction; it's one of two rump wings of what used to be proud American institutions that are now firmly and permanently attached to the corporate teat. The revolving door is going around so fast that the lift generated is threatening to put Washington, DC in orbit.
But you make a good point. It's likely SP hates Iranian and Turkish and Indonesian Muslims just as much as Arab Muslims. She certainly hates their houses of worship.
By the way, Americans are the most charatible people on Earth. We are clearly not perfect, but we are still the best country in the world. I don't understand the folks who always make us out to be the "bad guy". Do you know how lucky you are to be American?
If at all possible, I believe it is always best to take the moral "high road." Why wouldn't you?
As far as being charitable, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development lists countries by the amount of money they give as a percentage of their gross national income. America finished 23rd (Sweden was #1).
When you hear someone say, "Political correctness," how often are they dismissive or defiant? 99% of the time? 999 times out of a thousand?
Why should we believe a movment that can't protect its own name is going to destroy the country?
"Anyone who views the proposed mosque construction as anything other than a slap in America's face is thinking too hard or just being naive."
Translation: anyone who doesn't believe this conspiracy theory is being naive. I reject that insult.
I am constantly hearing that FOX outrates MSNBC, CNN, etc. This ranking is a false barometer. You need to add the ratings of the media programs together. Right now there is not an alternative for FOX. They have no competition. Other media who appear more "fair and balanced" do compete for their audiences.
Like all things Palin, I am beginning to wonder if she ever graduated from college. I think it is amazing that no one has stepped forward to say I was a friend of hers at so and so college. I also think it is interesting that not one person that I know of will say that they were a good friend of Sarah's in high school. The only group participation seems to be her basketball team and one member of that team didn't have anything positive to say. I think she has a problem with her own gender, ie the Katie Couric interview. She was intimadated by her, plus her lack of prep and firsthand knowledge, yelled loud and clear.
Jaya Santhan 12 hours ago (12:26 AM)
11 Fans
As a Christian country we should inspire others through our actions and not through imposing our beliefs. There are many American soldiers that may not be religious or Christian.
---
Creative editing MINE.. I stopped there, because you went on a spiel about how as a christian you should..
This nation is not, has not been, and will never be a "Christian Nation" no matter how you people wish it to be. Ignorance of history is no excuse, it is a from of shoving your views upon others.
This country was founded people, who among other reasons, came here to escape religious persecutions so they had the FREEDOM to practice their religions. It was declared a country in 1776, by the "Representatives of the United States of America" and in 1797, 20 very short years later in the Treaty of Tripoli It was reaffirmed that we are not a christian nation.
So No matter what your personal beliefs are, park your "We are a christian nation" bunk somewhere else. You would be factually, historically, and spiritually wrong in that matter.
I don't take to kindly to other religions forcing theirs down my throat, I practice a live and let live kind of spirituality.. My beliefs are my own, and I don't feel the need to justify myself "As a christian" in what I say or do.