War on Intolerance: Yeah, Right…

So, considering I’m actually getting around to bitching about the subject of the “Ground Zero Mosque” blargen, it’s now old news. To recap for the slower readers; Ground Zero/ Mosque/ Obama Supports Terrorism.

Okay, you are now up to speed with an evident 24% of narrow-minded and poorly coherent Americans. Yeup, I do not sympathize with those people in the slightest (and if you are one, hold onto your Uncle Sam plushy because I’m gonna piss you right off ).

Now, i don’t frequently keep up to date on American politics, mostly A because I don’t follow the whims of sheeple very well and B I can find far more interesting things to read about than American politics (Oh! Look, an article on cookies!) However, sitting in the employee lunch room at work and reading the article Intolerance Endangers Republicans from the KW-Record, I finally began to understand the mindset of the average American peon—person, sorry…

Fact of the matter is, many families lost family members to the 9/11 incident, many more lost family to the war on Terrorism that shortly followed. However, here we are, almost 10 years later in a country that prides itself on being the first to everything awesome in the world (just watch Hollywood films and tell me that isn’t their slant) and still practicing predjudice. And muslimphobia, incidentally (soon to be a real diagnostic). However, I could give you the full run-down on how, God-forbid, the terrorist mosque is going to dedicate a memorial to the 300-odd deceased muslims from 9/11, or how the fact that the ‘mosque’ is actually more of a strip mall; but this would take far too long to write, and I’m afraid if I did the Station would be mistaken for a news bulliten.

Now, to pick apart the minds of the anti-mosque crew (who I will now refer to as the ‘Crew”) and why they are so ferverently opposed to something that makes sense to us weirdo Canadians. The primary factor against this mosque is the super-powerful emotion that many of the victim’s families feel when gazing at the monument (now no longer rubble) of Ground Zero; and how it sparked an era that many of us wish we could forget. These families, fueled by their mourning for lost ones and media hysteria against the evil-evil muslim (our modern day Nazi, no less!), are easily swayed to believe that the orginaiztion has only ill intent.

Personally, i don’t see it. But that’s because I’m mostly a cynical, emotionless nazi who hates the US of A. Or, so I’ve been told.

Further-more, news on Obama being a muslim just sounds dumb. This is the same president who, only last year, sparked a nation to believe in one rock-star black man who could rock the world. The same man that I believe said he was going to instigate change in the US to liberate it from the oppressive grip of a failing economy. The same president who, as I seem to recall, was just too outragiously out there that every man in the south states want to grow a big beard to support the confederacy.

Or, maybe I missed a note somewhere that said Obama planned 9/11, or something retarded like that. Didn’t we used to hate on Bush for dumb shit too? I see a trend.

To put it bluntly, who cares if Obama IS Muslim. I doubt it, personally, because it just seems to ‘convenient’ if you ask me. Did Obama wear Muslim clothes at one point? Probably. Probably to respect a misunderstood religion in the West. Or, maybe he thought the robes looked as cool as I thought they looked. Anyhoo, point being I don’t believe the papparazzi any farther than I could throw them (and I can’t throw much farther than 12 centimetres).

Also, the guy who said building a mosque at Ground Zero is like building a monument to Hitler at Auschwitz is just dumb. It’s more like building a small monument to Hitler put into the broom closet in some warehouse in west Germany.

But, if Unlce Sam is to have his way and still linger as the golden American icon, he can’t do it without stirring the pot a bit.

And in this case, the pot is half-empty.