I think titty bars, regular bars, even a satanic church is different than an islamic church.
How?
I'll admit, I was originally in the, "I'm not really for it, but hey, 1st Amendment of the US Constitution is the trump card against trying to ban it." However, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it's straight up bigotry than anything else. Muslims already pray in the Pentagon. There's a Shinto Shrine near Pearl Harbor. There's already a small Islamic prayer center 4 blocks away from Ground Zero (and also predates the opening of the WTC). However, no one has answered the "How close is too close?" question. Additionally, does it make any sense at all to have an ____ Exclusion Zone because other people with the same religion (hell, in the name of the same religion even) did terrible things. Are Christians justified in demanding that the Jews leave Jerusalem because of Christ and subsequent terrorism against early Christians? Do blacks in the Southern States get to demand no white churches because of the KKK? Where does this end?
"First they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak for me."
You know what's interesting about that statement? It was written by a Lutheran priest who initially welcomed the rise of Hitler and the persecution of the Jews, only to later spend 7 years at concentration camps because he began to protest the Nazi policy of state supremacy over religion. God help us if our first step is to replace "socialist" with "Muslim" over blind fear and hatred of a group of people because a minority of them in other countries are terrorists. God help us all.
