How stupid has the whole “Mosque at Ground Zero” thing become?
At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly surrounded two Egyptian men who were speaking Arabic and were thought to be Muslims.
“Go home,” several shouted from the crowd.
“Get out,” others shouted.
In fact, the two men – Joseph Nassralla and Karam El Masry — were not Muslims at all. They turned out to be Egyptian Coptic Christians who work for a California-based Christian satellite TV station called “The Way.” Both said they had come to protest the mosque.
“I’m a Christian,” Nassralla shouted to the crowd, his eyes bulging and beads of sweat rolling down his face.
But it was no use. The protesters had become so angry at what they thought were Muslims that New York City police officers had to rush in and pull Nassralla and El Masry to safety.
“I flew nine hours in an airplane to come here,” a frustrated Nassralla said afterward.
The incident underscores how contentious — and, perhaps, how irrational — the debate over the mosque has become.
And this is where the American press displays how utterly castrated it really is. Perhaps irrational???? An angry mob potentially going violent on two men who were protesting the same thing the angry mob was protesting IS irrational.
And lest you think that this was an isolated incident, it happened more than once.
The man mistaken as a muslim and assaulted by this jolly group of idiots is actually a carpenter who works at Ground Zero. Nice, huh?
I love my country, but there are times when I think the collective population of this nation is a bunch of fucking cro-mags, or at least that the stupid of this nation have finally outnumbered those with all synapses firing. Freedom of speech is something that I will defend until my dying day, but when the mob abandons all semblance of thought and is absolved for it in the name of some twisted, perverted brand of patriotism… a word that at this point I don’t even think it’s possible to define it anymore… and the only consequence for their actions is positive press from some jingoistic conservaneocon talking head who will reap enormous ratings from giving these idiots faux credibility to accessorize their faux patriotism, then this country is circling the drain in a downward spiraling vortex of failure.
We truly are living in a bizarro world. If the socially retarded monsters on Jersey Shore aren’t proof enough that all you need to do to succeed anymore is to fail upward, just take a look everywhere else. Being a bad CEO gets you a golden parachute. Failing companies get billions in bailout money from both political parties. Shitty politicians get millions on the lecture circuit. Presidents who can’t pronounce the world noo-klee-ər, completely trash the economy, and violate every tenet of the republican platform get elected to two terms… by republicans. Defaulting on your mortgage is considered the smart financial move. Racism, jingoism, ignorance and stupidity are considered patriotic. Education, literacy, critical thinking skills, and the general accumulation of historical knowledge for the purpose of actually learning from it is considered suspect. And apparently now, we’ve taken the full 180 degree u-turn back to the 1860′s… hell, the 1960′s… with brown skin being considered not just a second-class citizen, but the enemy.
Since the statements of the founding fathers and any President worth his salt are the fodder for political perversion by every shiny candidate paraded in front of a camera, I’m going to do something refreshing and invoke an oft forgotten quote from Abraham Lincoln, and… hold onto your hats folks… use it in its proper context.
“As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal. We now practically read it as ‘all men are created equal except negroes.’
When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘All men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’
When it comes to this, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty – to Russia for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
- Abraham Lincoln, 1855
