Comments on the Ground Zero Mosque

The European and the American left (neo-liberals) are missing the point that the classical liberals (American conservatives) are making: We are actually angry about losing our rights to speak freely. The First Amendment has been under attack from political correctness and identity politics for years. In much of Europe and England there is no equivalent to the American First Amendment. Prior to 9/11 we really had the right to speak freely even about the Muslims. Now we don't. We have been pretending the Muslim religion is somehow beyond reproach. That is what South Park tried to demonstrate when they were censored. Classical liberals really do like freedom of speech, freedom to say the unvarnished truth even when it is not politically correct. Somehow, though, the Muslims seem to get a special pass on the most atrocious aspects of their religion when Jews and Christians and EVERY other religion does not. If American Muslims are going to BE Americans, like American Jews and American Christians, they must respect the First Amendment and take their lumps just like everyone else. Wickedness is wickedness, but now we have to pretend some groups, like Muslims, Gays, Victim Feminists, etc. etc. are beyond doing what is wicked. All this mosque nonsense is nothing more than the continuation of the on-going antagonism that American Classical Liberals are focussing on neo-liberal paternalists. We classical liberals actually do believe the CONTENT of ones CHARACTER counts, neo-liberals do not. That is what is behind the conservative American antagonism to this mosque. It has nothing to do with any particular religion, everything to do with being bullied by Obama and the pc police.

jdcarmine wrote: Aug 23rd 2010 7:03 GMT