{"id":8611,"date":"2010-08-27T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T13:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/27\/the-mosque-at-ground-zero-dont\/"},"modified":"2010-08-27T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T13:33:36","slug":"the-mosque-at-ground-zero-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/27\/the-mosque-at-ground-zero-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mosque at Ground Zero: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Build It&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Inquiry in Amherst NY has come out against the mosque.  I&#8217;ve been pretty much avoiding this topic (not for any particularly good reason) other than <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/08\/sos_racist_working_class_redne.php\">to note the gagging teabaggers beating up<\/a> on non-pink people that they assume are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help!_%28film%29\">Kaaaaiiiiliiii terrorists <\/a>or something.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.langcultcog.com\/traumatized\/?p=609\">DuWayne Brayton posted a link<\/a>, with commentary, to the CFI&#8217;s statement on the mosque, and, I find myself respectfully disagreeing with DuWayne and going in with the CFI on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Religion did this.  The terrorist attack was a religious event.  I don&#8217;t want a mosque or a temple or a church or community center linked to a religion built in the vicinity of the destroyed World Trade Center on account of the attack any more than I want a religious structure built next to the Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City on account of that religious attack by Christian White Supremacist McVay.<\/p>\n<p>In fact,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.langcultcog.com\/traumatized\/?p=609\"> I suggest in a comment on DuWayne&#8217;s post<\/a> what should really happen in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Inquiry in Amherst NY has come out against the mosque. I&#8217;ve been pretty much avoiding this topic (not for any particularly good reason) other than to note the gagging teabaggers beating up on non-pink people that they assume are Kaaaaiiiiliiii terrorists or something. But DuWayne Brayton posted a link, with commentary, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/27\/the-mosque-at-ground-zero-dont\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mosque at Ground Zero: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Build It&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2eT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}