Taking Liberties

That mosque represents everything that's wrong with the modern world. The perpetually infantilised, rights-enshrined "up yours we're doing it because we can" brigade. 

 

I discovered the pretty statues of Liberty in a Paris jewellery window, standing proud in front of the famous church in St German des Pres which you can just make out in the window. I realise you in America greatly value freedoms enshrined - but I feel the same way about that group of christian nutjobs rocking up to the funerals of dead American soldiers as I do that bloody mosque being built close to Ground Zero. It's obnoxious, selfish and wrong.
 
 

Comments

[Nicole]

Everyone with sense feels the same way about the idiots who protest at funerals.

[Kris, in New England]

Alison - I have no words about the mosque that I can share in a polite format. It's an abomination, period.

It dishonors the deaths of those innocent people - especially (and selfishly) one of them. Heather Lee Smith was the daughter of dear friends; she was on Flight 11. Everytime I think of that mosque being built 2 blocks from where she was rended into pieces I shake, my stomach heaves and I feel like I'm going to explode. I knew others on the planes, distantly - wives of guys I went to high school with. I live in a very small town and THREE people from my town perished at the WTC.

It boggles my mind that the City of NY can allow this to happen, that they would ignore the sensibilities of the hundreds of families who live right nearby.

Build the freaking thing if they must - just not there. It's just despicable.

[Buck]

Well said, Alison.

[Laura]

I agree completely.