So I've been following this story for a good week now, but I've never commented because I kept thinking this couldn't actually be real! How is it that our freedom loving country could be protesting the building of a church? I keep making parallels in my mind to the guilt-by-association internment camps for the Japanese citizens during WWII. I keep hoping that our enlightened country can't possibly be so blatantly disregarding one of the most basic and important principles to our constitution, Freedom of Religion.
I want to point out to protesters that the equivalent to a Muslim terrorist is a Nazi skin-head, or a KKK member. They are not just your average Arab!
And that this church is not a terrorist training ground, stop listening to FOX News and think about it. They don't train suicide bombers in the US, it's too nice here. They do it in poor countries where young men have no hope.
So why is it that we are suddenly afraid of this church? I have an answer: Fear of those that are different. So they believe a different religion, they dress differently, and therefore we can't trust them? I certainly don't fall into this group, maybe because I'm part Scottish and the Scottish dress differently and are very hard to understand.
Honestly I think anyone who has protested this church should be ashamed. And I can see this lash out of hate ending the tea party movement and killing the republican momentum that has been growing. Not a great time, just before the mid-term election, to splash a lot of hate around.
Honestly I hope this does become a big issue for candidates because it is so telling.
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