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Germany was not the issue. Nazi Germans were the issue.
Are you kidding? Japanese have built all around the entrance to the harbor.
I'm sure an Italian has built something as near a war memorial, as zoning will allow.
So there is a japnaese temple buillt after the war next to the pearl harbor site;I must have missed that.Now about a link ?Any lin to a itailan memorail will also be appreciated.I am not talking about a owned business mor resdience unless you think that is eqaul and the same.
Is this be appropriate? Newt said he was against the Japanese building something near Pearl Harbor. What about Italians building a center near a memorial for WW2 veterans? Is this similar to Muslims building a mosque near ground zero?
What a Pathetic attempt at Race Baiting and an INSULT to Americans of Italian,German and Japanese ancestry.
I don't know of any german group wanting to or proposing it nor any japanese group doing the same at Peral harbor. Its pushing a button and most in either group except those wanting to oush the button owuld porpose such a thing. Its called civility IMO.
I don't know about the Japanese, but it regularly appears on German TV that right wing groups are meeting and are very anti-Jewish. The right wing NDP is winning German elections and courts anti-Jewish voters and candidates. German corporations are known to funnel the technology to Iran through third and fourth parties.
Every spring the WW2 Memorial is surrounded by the Cherry Blossum Festival and a Japanese Cultural Festival is held on Pennsylvania Ave. The trees are clones of trees sent by the people of Tokyo. It is one of Washington's best and most beautiful festivals. So bygones can be bygones. So it should be with the proposed Cordova Center which reminds us of a time when the Islamic civilzation saved the height of Western Civilization during our Dark Age.
Yeah, I noticed they are getting pretty bad lately. Some of their arguments are like shooting fish in a barrel. They aren't even trying to be creative anymore. /shrug
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Originally Posted by BentBow Germany was not the issue. Nazi Germans were the issue.
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What? Do my eyes deceive me, or is someone making distinctions between people based upon the specific actions instead of through association? Is this sort of rational thought possible?
Allow me to disagree with both.
The German people voted for Hitler, therefore became Nazis. They either fully and willingly followed the Nazi ideology, or stayed quiet. The few that revolted were put in concentration camps themselves. So therefore Nazi Germany was the problem.
The same is with Islam. Islam is the problem right now, not because all Muslims are terrorists, but because many Muslims are sitting quietly, while their fellow Muslims are committing terror acts all over the world, in the name of Allah.
The brave ones that are talking, have a fatwah ( a religious death decree) on their life.
Had they wanted to show tolerance, they would have never try to built a mosque on ground zero.
Every spring the WW2 Memorial is surrounded by the Cherry Blossum Festival and a Japanese Cultural Festival is held on Pennsylvania Ave. The trees are clones of trees sent by the people of Tokyo. It is one of Washington's best and most beautiful festivals. So bygones can be bygones. So it should be with the proposed Cordova Center which reminds us of a time when the Islamic civilzation saved the height of Western Civilization during our Dark Age.
You are forgetting one very important thing both Germany and Japan lost the war. gave up the weapon, gave up their ideology, and are our allies.
What were you saying about saving us from the dark ages???
Muslim all over the world 10%-25% believe that they are in a holly war against the infidels.
Where do you see the parallel exactly?
Is this be appropriate? Newt said he was against the Japanese building something near Pearl Harbor. What about Italians building a center near a memorial for WW2 veterans? Is this similar to Muslims building a mosque near ground zero?
I hope that you do understand the difference between a united German American Committee and a Museum.
Both could have been built in a different locations, while ground zero can not be moved.
Ground Zero is not a place picked for a memorial, it is where it happen.
Is this be appropriate? Newt said he was against the Japanese building something near Pearl Harbor. What about Italians building a center near a memorial for WW2 veterans? Is this similar to Muslims building a mosque near ground zero?
Unless the group has demonstrable ties to Nazism, I don't see any problem with it. It is deeply insulting to assume that German = Nazi. I say this as someone who is both Jewish and descended from Germans (and French and Polish).
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