Legal can still be offensive

Submitted by Jeff (United States), Aug 24, 2010 at 14:51

No one is arguing that the mosque is not legal. Just because it's legal, doesn't mean it's right or called for in any sense. In fact, it's extremely offensive and beyond insensitive. The mosque is built for members of a religion who are themselves offended to the point of murder and mayhem by cartoons and a misnamed teddy bear, so one would think such experts on being offended might, just once, take a pass on offending their neighbors and fellow Americans. Wrong.

We remain with one group whose feelings are all important all the time, and every other group in the world's most tolerant, most religiously diverse nation whose feelings count for nothing all the time.

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