Mosque to be Built Near Ground Zero

On the other hand, I'm in awe that so many "real" Americans who post on these blogs know what's right and what's wrong. That was not the case when I was a child growing up in California.

Foofie wrote:

kickycan wrote:

That depends. Are you talking as a "native" A2Ker? Or as some newbie on this site who doesn't know her ass from a hole in the ground?

No such animal as "native A2Ker"; however, native New Yorkers often do not see controversial issues from the same perspective as "transplants" from elsewhere, since, in my opinion, the transplant usually does not have the family history of living in NYC when it was a very different, and not so caring city. Or, more succinctly, many "transplants," if things do not work out so well in "the big city" can return home to the proverbial "homestead" to lick one's wounds, so to speak, while deciding what to do next that is new and exciting. Native New Yorkers usually do not have such alternatives. New York was the proverbial end of the road for his or her family, and that family had to endure a city when there was less concern for the average citizen. Yet, we stayed, and today might just live in the tri-state area, but they did not go off to Ohio, or some Podunk town that closes up at 8 p.m.

Unless all native New Yorkers also think exactly alike, then I have no idea what point you think this post is making.

Foofie - your "native" argument, is the type of argument that only embarassess you later on. I'll be sure to remember it when you comment on how things are run in Washington. Perhaps then, you'll understand that you can't get it or understand it or have the needed intellectual credentials to even comment on it. This native crap is laughable. Natives and transplants in ANY city have the same value, and the same rights.

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Are you saying that all "native New Yorkers" stay in New York and don't go to other places? Does a "native New Yorker" who moves to the wilds of, oh say, California retain the same rights and priviledges as those who are still in New York? Do they have the same thoughts on things that happen in New York?

Foofie is ignorant of many things, and that includes what makes up the population of NYC.

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Immigrants make up 40 percent of New York City's population
By Fred Mazelis
31 July 2000

A survey of New York City households taken by the US Census Bureau in 1999 has revealed that 40 percent of the city's 7.4 million people are now foreign-born.

Does the proposed mosque/community relations center offer Jewish and Christian service, like the chapel at the Pentagon?

roger, You are confused; the issue surrounds the community center/mosque two blocks from ground zero in NYC. That the pentagon has a mosque at "ground zero" (same building area) so to speak doesn't bother anyone - except maybe those who are bigoted assholes.

The greatest wish of radical Islam is to show that despite all its claims of freedom of religion, Muslims are second class citizens in the US, subject to persecutions in all things, big and small. I'm amazed you are willing to give them this stunning gift, repudiating all that the US claims to stand for.

Feelings of lost loved ones and first responders doesn't justify what they wish to impose on other Americans who had nothing to do with 9-11. Why should innocent people suffer just because some people's feelings are unreasonable?
They have the legal right and the Constitutional right to build.

Don't you comprehend English? Is English your second language?

It's non-sequitur only to you, because you don't understand how this explodes your statements about New Yorkers.

The Constitutional rights of the mosque builders were never questioned

Their sensitivity and willingness to coexist with others certainly has been questioned however. The response has been both finger pointing and finger giving. This is not encouraging.