Oh, so it IS you, BOAZ_David.

Welcome back!

Dear Proxy,

Are you really BOAZ_David?

Foxy,

I’m not sure that Proxy is Boaz, but with the two dot ellipses, the spaces either side of the question marks and ‘you’re’ spelled ‘ur’, I’m pretty certain that the “BD” in “no_THIS_ismeBD” stands for BOAZ_David.

I think there are some lovely Muslims who would definitely see such a mosque as conciliatory... and never allow their minds to be influenced by the hard liners.

Sadly..there are those hard liners who will take a different view.

On our side we have Proxy and Runner who take a rather stern view of it all..and various others who feel they are over-reacting.

Takes all types to make a world.

Perhaps we need the wisdom to know the difference and not treat one group as if they were the other ?

It certainly is a difficult challenge to react uniformly to. It might even depend on which 'faction' happens to control the mosque at any time... nothing seems to stay the same these days.

I suppose I could always throw a lot of money at them and say "be kind and I'll give you more" :)

Do you know what really get to me is -
how come the New York City Council
unanimously approved this proposal?
Surely they would be the ones who
should be concerned about this issue,
and yet apparently they're not!
Why is that? And yet here we all are,
arguing about the matter - when in
fact we don't live there, it doesn't
affect any of us, and the people who
should give a damn - apparently don't!
Why not? Could it be that all this is
just a storm in a teacup? If the
New York City Council doesn't see a
problem with this proposal, then why
should any of us?

Hey Foxy

it occured to me that your logic "if they don't see a problem with it..why should we?" could be applied to the "Obama Accelarates" thread.

Israel see's no problem with what they do... why should we ? :)