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Wes Mantooth · 08-26-2010, 01:19 PM

Seems like business as usual to me, has there ever been a in a time in the US when some group or minority wasn't demonized and mistreated? Considering our past the treatment Muslims in the this country since 9/11 has been breath of fresh air (well maybe not fresh air...a little less dank and moldy perhaps).

At least these idiots aren't in the majority, at least we haven't passed laws baring Muslims from running for office, we haven't rounded them up and put them in camps...the mosque/community center will probably get built and if it does it just goes to show that those protesting really have no power over anything and legally its just noise. As sad as this may sound our country might be making progress when it comes to dealing with minorities, and things that are "different". Who knows in a few generations we might actually collectively move past this stuff all together.

Imagine if this whole Muslim/Mosque thing was being debated 50 years ago. I would think...well for one Barack Obama would be nowhere near the White House...but the numbers being sighted in most polls would probably be light years higher and the fallout much, much uglier.

08-26-2010, 01:19 PM	#278 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	Seems like business as usual to me, has there ever been a in a time in the US when some group or minority wasn't demonized and mistreated? Considering our past the treatment Muslims in the this country since 9/11 has been breath of fresh air (well maybe not fresh air...a little less dank and moldy perhaps). At least these idiots aren't in the majority, at least we haven't passed laws baring Muslims from running for office, we haven't rounded them up and put them in camps...the mosque/community center will probably get built and if it does it just goes to show that those protesting really have no power over anything and legally its just noise. As sad as this may sound our country might be making progress when it comes to dealing with minorities, and things that are "different". Who knows in a few generations we might actually collectively move past this stuff all together. Imagine if this whole Muslim/Mosque thing was being debated 50 years ago. I would think...well for one Barack Obama would be nowhere near the White House...but the numbers being sighted in most polls would probably be light years higher and the fallout much, much uglier. __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”