Rand Paul: Muslims Should Give To 9/11 Victims Fund Instead Of Building Mosque Near Ground Zero

I'm confused.

Why should Muslims give to the 9/11 victims fund?

Did Christians give to the OKC bombing victims fund to wipe away the sins of radical Christian Timothy McVeigh?

Should anyone who's Catholic have to give to victims of priest sexual abuse?

So, an Evangelical Christian believes in going back to the practice of Catholic Dispensations for Muslims? Oi!

He wants his cake, and to eat it too.

He can be "against it" and "for it" and not have to answer to either side.

He didn't 'call for Muslims to scrap' the idea, you are quoting sloppy reporting. He doesn't 'support it'. It was being described as building the mosque IN ORDER to start 'the healing process' which is laughable, it may be a good place for it, but who would think this would 'start the healing process'? and he responded to THAT by saying donating to a fund would better further that end were it the end actually sought. But he neither supports nor opposes it, he just has an opinion on whether it in fact 'starts a healing process.'

What? Why should they pay for something they didn't cause? What would get out of it? They still don't have a center.

Paul is sooooo lucky that angle is running against Reid. There is so much crazy stuff coming out of angle that it totally drowns out paul's insanity. If angle wasn't running, paul would be getting all the attention and trailing by 20 points. It's a shame the media can't handle more than one crazy pol.

Shorter right-wing bigot: Muslims are free to sit in the front of the bus, but should have the common decency to sit in the back so that no bigots get their precious feelings hurt.

Why doesn't Rand Paul protest the Amish Market which is next door to the 41 Park Place Community Center (it's not a Mosque).

He's Looney in the Tooney!

This whole thing just pisses me off! Rand, and the Rs and many Ds including Reid and the ADL are all just being dickish cowards. This is a fundamental constitutional issue; politicians across the board should be standing up and loudly and unequivocally saying 1) the community center and mosque are permitted under local zoning laws AND 2) WE AS AMERICANS DO NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY RELIGION, and 3) the head of this program is someone the Bush and Obama administrations have recognized as a positive, moderating, pro-American voice in Islam, and 4) ANYONE WHO SPEAKS AGAINST MUSLIMS LEGALLY BUILDING A MOSQUE WHEREVER THE HELL THEY WANT TO ARE BEING UNAMERICAN AND BIGOTS.

PERIOD. END OF STORY.

Here we live in a country with one of the greatest founding documents ever written, yet we tolerated slavery, we slaughtered Native Americans, we have a history of persecuting and denying civil rights to blacks, Jews, Catholics, women, and gays. We forced Native Americans onto reservations. We locked up loyal American citizens in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese descent. People fought and killed to prevent blacks from getting equal rights.

McCarthyism only stopped when people finally stood up and challenged McCarthy directly.

Now is the time for every politician to act like a leader, not a rabble-rouser and stand up and say, "No more nonsense!" If a few did that this whole dispute would disappear and the rest of the country might start seeing those making bigoted statements as pariahs, in the same light as Michael Richards or Mel Gibson or Don Imus.

My single question is this; how can Rand Paul still be ahead in the polls in KY? I understand that ignorance is strong in this country right now, but KY cannot be THIS stupid.

It is also ironic that Paul says that "boorish behavior" against black people should be tolerated, but he draws the line in NY. Very interesting.

Because Christians have 1) threatened abortion clinics 2) bombed abortion clinics 3) killed abortion doctors, should Churches be banned from being bulit too close to abortion clinics?

Hobbes

I had not heard of Pat Condell. After a brief search I found videos in which he appears to be against the building of the mosque (I did not watch the video, I will later)

"This isn't an abortion thing,"

I was responding to a commenter who raised the scenario of building a church near an abortion clinic.

"and it's not a terrorism issue, it's about a group of American citizens who happen to be part of a minority religious group who want to build a mosque. Remember that old rag called the Constitution? And the Establishment Clause? That thing that also allows people to protest AGAINST this mosque? I guess there was some some secret revision to it that made it only applicable to white Christians.

If you are being serious and not facetioius (you sound serious) then I am with you 100%. Who knew? Moi et vous in agreement!
Muslims have the right to build their "mosque" and opponents have the right to protest, but not to prevent the building of the mosque except by force of persuading Muslims to change the location. Sounds uniquely American and constitutional. Everybody's constitutional rights are protected.