Anti-mosque demonstrations in Manhattan

here's your tolerance. thanks for sharing.

I said "many Americans". I did not say "all Americans".
Here I am not criticizing America in general.

Philosophically on this point you and I are in complete agreement. I understand what you are getting at.

technically he does have a right, his rights in one country dont get impacted due to the support of pathetic views in another, whether its a Saudi in UK, a Pakistani in Canada, Indian in Australia or Israeli in US. (if they support crappy practices of their countries)

I would say he has a right, but its hypocritical.

I absolutely agree with the two of you. There are some hypocrites who keep biatching about how discriminating some Pakistanis are, but won't condemn discrimination against Muslims when it is their friends from United States of Utopia do it.
This just shows their true colors.
Interesting thing about biatching of these hypocrites is that even their examples of discrimination in Pakistan actually discriminate against certain minority groups.

Of course, none of us here in this thread is such a biatching hypocrite.


Problem in this issue is not just allowing a mosque to build. Rather the problem is to stop the construction because these fanatics think that those terrorists represented Islam and Muslims in general.

Its funny how the extreme right wing papers like (New York Post, Daily News, etc) were putting it into light and the major paper New York Times didn't have much on it about that.

those right wing papers were empahzing 9/11, terrorism , yada yada...all propagandists.

The Imam of the mosque had to say that the first amendment guarentees the right to speech, press, and the right to assemble which was one of the points he had to get across the audiance.

I don't want to divert the thread into other discussion but its better to introspect instead of pointing outside for every problem that happens in our land. Once we start to examine we will find solutions to the problems otherwise we will remain like ostrich buying its head in the sand.

Samb, I read all your postings. Postings with sense. But your fellow brothers wont accept. Because for them,

If a demonstration happened in a country against a Building which touches against the emotions of the majority communinty ; then that is brutal discrimanation and it is more severe crime than ,
a. Burning churches and killing minorities in their Mosques
b. Naming its own people as second class citizen in the constitution itself
c. Killing or looting minorities if they donot agree to convert.

The most sarcastic thing is that these people think "all those incidents happened in Pakistan ,and we Pakistanis will take care that . But the demonstration happened in America and not Americans but we Pakistanis will take care of that "
Congrats for your valient fight against these hypocrites.

and on same note, its not very smart of americans to beech about liberty, secularism, democracy and equal rights in other countries while their grass-rot politicians are so against one religion in their own country. Two wrongs dont make a right my friend.

Having said this, I think I understand what a normal american feels about 9/11 and Muslim organizations should not take confrontational route on this very touchy matter.

Re: Anti-mosque demonstrations in Manhattan

AA all
I'm from the UK but can relate to what is being discussed here. We also have a strong anti-Islam feeling here in Europe.
Regarding the mosque, and what samb was saying, we have to remember yes Pakistan does have it's faults and does not protect it's minorities properly but we do not live in Pakistan anymore. If we have chosen to live overseas we have to try to fix the problems/issues that affect us. Pakistan is a Nation, Islam is a global religion. Therefore it's not only Pakistanis that will be affected by anti-Islam feelings or a ban on mosques for example..therefore I don't think the argument for pakistanis to sort out their own house before they protest against this stands...

*Why even bring Pakistan or what Pakistan does or does not do, in to this discussion?
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Discussion was about building of masjid in NY.

Re: Anti-mosque demonstrations in Manhattan

I agree and that's what I was trying to say... However it seems to have been brought up in this discussion before...I was trying to emphasise the point of this issue being more than what happens or does not happen in Pakistan...