[Unknown Target]

Don't do this, I'm watching this thread. Get back on topic, people.

[Turambar]

Good, then we can make the real topic about this, appropriately titled "The 2-Blocks from Ground Zero Muslim Community Center Debate"

[newman]

More from Jon Stewart on this, with bonus points for what he did with fox news, missed it before: http://www.mediaite.com/online/jon-stewart-connects-the-nonexistent-dots-is-fox-news-a-terrorist-command-center/
Funny with a point. Guess he's like that Mr. Plinkett guy in that respect

[Nuclear1]

I liked how Jon Stewart pointed out that we just shouldn't give a **** what al-Qaeda and the jihadists think about the Community Center.

He's totally right.  They want to think they won, that's fine--we'll come out on top by not succumbing to fear and rampant paranoia...well, this time at least.

[General Battuta]

what's there to debate, there isn't.

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"Take us into orbit, Mr. Malsteen, we've seen enough"

nice one, nice one

[qazwsx]

Uhm, where's the "debate" in this topic?
I honestly can't see any rational argument against it being built  

[mxlm]

Because there isn't one.

[newman]

Uhm, where's the "debate" in this topic?
I honestly can't see any rational argument against it being built  

There was a debate on whether or not there should be a debate on this in the first place. Does that count?

[Nemesis6]

An ironic truth - Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of the Saudi monarchy owns 5% of News Corporation, of which Fox News is a parent company. In 2005, during the riots in France, which Fox News called "Muslim Riots", Alwaleed bin Talal called Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News, and had him change the headlines to say "Civil Riots". Then he went on to brag about it on Arab television.

So, if you don't want to support muslims/Saudi Arabia/terrorists/people of terrorist descent, stop watching Fox News!

[Bobboau]

There was a debate on whether or not there should be a debate

HLP: where you can argue about arguing.

[mxlm]

HLP: where you can argue about arguing.

You're such a tool.

[Scotty]

He's just making an observation, jeez.

(LET THE GAMES BEGIN!)

[Bobboau]

this thread is not argument enough!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQE4orNMDAw

actually, I just came up with a perfect solution for this situation, have them build the thing, then build the worlds biggest gay bar right next door and call it even.

[NGTM-1R]

You do realize there's a good chance it's already next door to the world's largest gay bar?

Hell, there's probably a strip club on the other side too.

[Bobboau]

oh? I must admit I lack an encyclopedic knowledge of the major gay bars of New York city. so perhaps I will defer to your knowledge on the subject, however, I would doubt there is good enough fortune for irony of this caliber to simply come into existence, and I would bet that they would not have picked a site right next to a gay bar when looking for a place to build this.

[Unknown Target]

HLP: where you can argue about arguing.

You're such a tool.

Man this board's balls got sucked up into it's own body and disappeared in the time I've been gone.

[NGTM-1R]

oh?

Two blocks from the WTC ain't a nice neighborhood. You must have missed everyone else in the thread who happened to mention the strip clubs and peep shows and the rest.

[Bobboau]

I did miss that

but maybe this is an opportunity for the gay community improve their relations with the soccer mom and republican demographic, weekly gay pride parades down Park Place. I'm just ****ing giddy in anticipation for the moment they ask 'couldn't this be done some were else?'

[karajorma]

It gets more interesting. Fox News accuse one of their own major shareholders of being behind terrorism.

[NGTM-1R]

If we can have strip clubs in hallowed ground, we can have mosques in hallowed ground.

From the first page for you.

And no I'm not sure that latter example would be reasonable. This objection isn't reasonable either, particularly because there are a lot of other things even closer to Ground Zero that seem more worrisome than a mosque: strip clubs, gambling parlors, etcetera.

Page 6 in a direct response to you.

I checked, just for fun, if there was a google streets image of the proposed location. There isn't that I could find. (This may be the needlessly arcane nature of the current system.)