Ron has nailed it. There's no separation of church and state in Islam. Platt
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:21 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > > Horse said: > However, I was just wondering why, in a country that, apparently, prides > itself > on a constitutional right to freedom of religion, and the practice thereof, > there should be so much opposition to establishing a mosque in close > proximity > to the 9/11 site. I could understand it if it was an Al Qaeda recruitment > centre > but it appears to be no more than what it is. A place of religious worship. > Can't stand these places personally, be they Islamic, Christian, Jewish or > whatever as places of religion - they're sometimes OK in > architectural/artistic > terms but that's about it. > And a mosque is for the use of Moslem folk to come to worship in a similar > way > that Christians and Jews have their places to worship. Would the same > people who > object to this mosque object to a Japanese cultural centre in Hawaii, a > German > travel agency in Israel or a church in Jerusalem? Or perhaps the Catholic > church > should dismantle and recycle their churches where there have been > practising > paedophile priests (although that would probably leave very few Catholic > churches standing). > It seems to me that there is a degree of hypocrisy on display here in the > way > your fellow Americans view and treat the Islamic faith when compared to the > way > you treat the Christian and Jewish faiths. The vast majority of Moslems had > nothing to do with 9/11 and so, in fairness, should not be penalised for > the way > in which a very few Moslems belonging to Al Qaeda have behaved. That just > seems > reasonable to me. > > Ron: > I believe what has quite a few of us yanks up in arms about the Mosque > issue is > the > > Theocracy issue. I believe the Mosque is rejected on political grounds not > religous ones. > > Being a particularly complex issue, one that has it's basis in the > paralysis > koan RMP > mentions, a deeper look at what values are being exercised would shed a bit > more > light > on the situation. > > One must be careful to distinguish between theocracy and religion, we are > not at > war with > a religion but we are at war with a political ideal. > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
