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Old 03-01-2012, 08:41 PM
 
Location: The Other California
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Paving the way for jihad?

The number of mosques has nearly doubled in 11 years, increasing from 1,209 mosques in 2000 to 2,106 in 2011.
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Old 03-01-2012, 08:46 PM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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OMG everyone panic! Hide your kids! Evacuate all the cities! Ahhhhhhhh! Let's bomb Iran now!
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Old 03-01-2012, 08:46 PM
 
Location: Imaginary Figment
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What's the matter? Freedom of religion got ya down?
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Old 03-01-2012, 08:57 PM
 
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Massadras funded largely by Saudi cash from oil

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Old 03-01-2012, 09:02 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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Freedom of religion is freedom of religion. You Christian conservatives can't have it both ways.
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Old 03-01-2012, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Texas
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OMG everyone panic! Hide your kids! Evacuate all the cities! Ahhhhhhhh! Let's bomb Iran now!
There are roughly 350,000 Christian congregations in the United States. Looks like we're about to be overwhelmed by those 2,000 mosques, doesn't it?
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Old 03-01-2012, 09:08 PM
 
Location: SWUS
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And? Your point is? Whatever fears you have should be alleviated by the fact that mosques are usually very obvious. I don't see anything wrong with this, it's better than the untold millions of "First Church of Jesus" churches I see all over the place. They can't ALL be #1.
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Old 03-01-2012, 09:22 PM
 
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Freedom of religion is freedom of religion. You Christian conservatives can't have it both ways.
That would be the simplistic view of the subject. I suggest you comment after doing your homework on Political Isalm and how it differs significantly from "religion".

Jihad is a political act and not a religious one. Thus, the OP's post does not have anything to do with the 1st Amendment and the free practice of religion.
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Old 03-01-2012, 09:36 PM
 
Location: The Other California
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Freedom of religion is freedom of religion. You Christian conservatives can't have it both ways.
Freedom of religion - like all freedoms - requires context and distinctions to me meaningful. As a pure abstraction it is a recipe for failure.

If freedom of religion is absolute, and applied equally to all religions, then it simply means the most aggressive, violent, and hostile of those religions will soon come to dominate the others. Take a peek across the Atlantic. It's freedom for the bully on the playground.

Christianity is the foundational religion of western civilization, without which we are completely lost as a society. It also has the advantage of being true. If we can't at least modestly prefer truth to error, and our own culture to others, then we really don't deserve to be a country at all.
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Old 03-01-2012, 09:37 PM
 
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More nutty right-wingery.

The First Amendment protects the Mosques, just as it protects you and your religious beliefs.
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