Wow! Shit man, I though Al-Qaida was behind 9-11 not the Cordova Institute. Well, I’ll be! Man, you really ought to tell George and Barak that they really screwed the pooch these last ten years.
But all kidding aside, like I said, if it were a meeting place for terroists I would be all for the feds busting them just like I would any group of thugs. So I think we are in agreement on that front. The real difference is that I think you guys are putting the cart before the horse.
Also, did I say I was in favor of the governement sticking its nose into religious views? No, I, for example, think it’s stupid of the NY Port authority to not move forward with the Greek Orthodox Church that has been trying to rebuild since 9/11 (I don’t get that at all) but when someone tries to take their religion into a government function, I feel the government should push back… all within reason of course and that gray area of “what is reasonable” I think is where we will find some differences of opinion.
Also, I don’t know how many times I have to repeat this but I’m not the editor; “admin” is just the generic sign in so I’m really not a proper moderator. I do music coverage but I will log in as admin every once in a while just so if there is a comment that I didn’t post, it can be posted faster becasue people like to see their comments posted in a timely fashion. Proper moderation would involve screening and – beyond looking for spam, personal threats, or things like that nature – I don’t so that.
Once again, I go back to what I found amusing. Michael Berry said something stupid over a year ago and someone posted an article about it (which I have only barely scanned today) over a year ago. What Michael Berry said about blowing up a mosque has been long long long LONG forgotten by the vast majority Houstonians and never even made a dent outside of harris county therefore I posit that it is of no consequence to anyone’s lives on September 02, 2025. So, I find all this sudden explosion of activity on this post comical.
Also, I interviewed a band called Thunderkunt last month. In case you haven’t figured it out, this isn’t exactly the New York Review of Books here. If I’ve insulted anyone, I apologize but as far as I know all I did was basically accuse you guys of being a little obsessed about this post which I think is a fair cop.
Oh brother, I would think “you yankee weak kneed men should have a pox on your very existence, and your families should be held to everlasting shame!” is much more offensive that the word “shit” and “ass” only becasue it’s so cornball. A pox. Really? A POX? Who wishes a pox on anyone anymore? Oy Vey! C’mon guys, step it up abit if you are going to put a curse someone.
]]>So it does not have anything to do with religion. In addition, if you haven\’t noticed the government (state or national) does get into religious affairs, especially when it is a muslim or atheist complaining about Christians or Jews, etc…
Also, no one asked you to comment in the first place, so if you don\’t enjoy the banter with others, don\’t… Also, I have never seen a moderator who violated so many of a website\’s posting rules, mainly \"Keep it clean.\"
]]>So it does not have anything to do with religion. In addition, if you haven’t noticed the government (state or national) does get into religious affairs, especially when it is a muslim or atheist complaining about Christians or Jews, etc…
Also, no one asked you to comment in the first place, so if you don’t enjoy the banter with others, don’t… Also, I have never seen a moderator who violated so many of a website’s posting rules, mainly “Keep it clean.”
]]>We here at the Free Press use New Grammar. Take that period followed by the question mark in your quote for example. Under your old fancy pants rules this would be a problem but Declarative and Interrogative is so 20th centrury. Now we’ve combinder them and just call them Derogative Sentences. Get with the times. 
,thankS
RamonLp4
What is home water? Does any journalist proof read their articles anymore? This type of dumbing down is WHAT is driving me crazy. Every online newspaper article I read is riddled with typos and poor grammar.
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Once again, I’m not the editor nor am I the writer of this piece but you really think anyone here if for murder? Be it Muslim killing Muslim, Christian, atheist, Satanist, or whoever killing whoever – it’s just a dick thing to do. I can’t think of one person who doesn’t look and the example you cite of Pearl’s death with a sickening feeling. But once you stop looking at people as individuals and instead as “them”, you’ve made it easier to do exactly what the people who killed Pearl or any violent political group for that matter do which is take away the person’s humanity and reduce them to something inhuman that can be slaughtered for your own ends. I know som muslims and they are pretty chill folk. You have to distinguish between the extreme violent political ones who see violence as a tool to achive their ends and the rest of the muslim world.
I scanned the article and the line about blowing up the mosque that is what the article appears to be about is pretty dick if you ask me. Leave that kind of BS talk to terrorists. The US has better values than that or do you support such talk?
Now as for the community center or mosque if you wish to call it that (which is a few blocks away FROM ground zero anyhow).. Really, this is the United States – people can buid a temple to cheese whiz if they want; who gives a rats ass. You really want the state to start telling religions that they can’t build such and such place of worship because it might offend someone? As far as I’m concerned, outside of standard restrictions that would apply to any other person or organization, the state stays out of religion’s business and religion stays out of the state’s business. That’s a pretty good deal if you ask me. If the center ends up being a breeding ground for terrorists, obviously the state should shut it down like they would any other group of criminals but let’s not put the cart before the horse.
Now take a deep breath and remember that Berry’s comments (which you guys seem to approve of) were said over a year a go when this was written and the world has moved on. Drink a beer, kick back, turn off the news commentators, and enjoy life.
Thanks
RamonLP4
• Omar M. Ahmad, founder of CAIR: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant.” … “The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America , and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually?
Yes. according to the quran, there are only three choices in Islam: either willing submission [i.e., conversion]; or payment of the jizya [poll-tax paid by non-Muslims], thereby bodily, though not spiritual, submission to the authority of Islam; or the sword—for it is not right to let him [an infidel] live.
The matter is summed up for every person alive: either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die…. Such, then, is the basis of the relationship between the infidel and the Muslim. Battle, animosity, and hatred—directed from the Muslim to the infidel—is the foundation of their religion.
• “Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” Muslim Brotherhood motto
• More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined
• Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years
• Islamists killed more Buddhists in Thailand since 9/11 than the KKK killed in the 100 YEARS from 1865 to 9165.
• More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland
• The 19 Muslim hijackers killed more innocents in two hours on September 11th than the number of American criminals executed in the last 65 years.
• MUSLIMS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF MORE THAN 270 MILLION NON-MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE
if they are allowed to build this victory mosque, you yankee weak kneed men should have a pox on your very existence, and your families should be held to everlasting shame! and for those of you who call me an extremist, i have never cut someones head off with a pocketknife like they did to daniel pearl! ]]>
I haven’t read the article but from what I could tell it had to do with Michael Berry whose views I could give two shits about one way or the other. Whatever he said that sparked this article (yeah he’s really not worth my reading this article) is something that nobody (and I’ll bet money the author as well) could care about a year later.
And Marty
If you are writing TO me, you got the wrong guy. I was just moderating. I could care less about politics – it’s all bollocks. It’s a fucking game that has to do with power and nothing about what is best for the country. So I didn’t write the article, I’m not the editor, nor would I care about your views or the views of the author. So you won’t get an answer out of me for that simple reason.
My point was simply it’s a year later and the world has moved on from Berry’s comments and the authors reaction. Both of you guys ought to do the same.
The is beer to drink and women to drink it with; neither of which has anything to do with what either Amy Goodman or Rush Limbaugh have to say.
Yours Truly
RamonLP4
I’ll keep the faith as long as you still stay classy bro,
Marty
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