Archive for August 2010
“Ground Zero Mosque”
While thinking about the situation, about the building of an Islamic cultural center and mosque NEAR Ground Zero (not exactly IN Ground Zero), I wanted to write about how the United States, particularly New York City and it’s inhabitants are about openness. How we are, and always should be, welcoming to ALL religions. How it would be wrong for us to not allow a religious group to build a place of PEACEFUL worship and a place that would create a bridge between the United States and the Islamic world, mainly because of the actions of radicals within the religious group.
I mean, if it were a Christian church or a Jewish synagogue being built, would anyone question it? The obvious answer is ‘No’. Regardless of what is being built, is it OK to question the source of funding for the construction of a building? Of course. However, everyone that opposes building a community center and place of worship NEAR Ground Zero (It’s not in Ground Zero), simply because it’s Islamic, is basically condemning an entire religion, and being a bigot. That is simply unacceptable in our wonderful and open country, and especially not acceptable in New York City.
Let’s face it, there are radicals in ALL religions. There are Christian radicals, Jewish radicals, Hindu radicals, as well Islamic radicals. There have been all sorts of violence, committed in the name of religion, throughout human history. At this point in our human history, we are battling Islamic fundamentalists. But not all Muslims are Islamic fundamentalists.
That’s what I wanted to write about. But then I read a piece on the Alex Jones website regarding the Imam behind this mosque, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf:
Feisal Abdul Rauf also heads up the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) which enjoys a partnership with the Cordoba Initiative and provided $100 million to secure the site close to ground zero for the mosque to be built.
That $100 million came directly from the back pockets of ASMA’s financial backers.
According to ASMA’s website they include the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers, Rockefeller Philanthropy, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund – essentially the tip of the pyramid of the international globalist elite.
Normally, you take the posts on the Alex Jones website with a grain of salt. Sometimes there’s truth, some excellent points that get you thinking. And sometimes they seem to verge closer to out of this world conspiracy theories that belong on the X-Files.
But on this subject, on this post, things are clear. This is simply manufactured controversy to keep us from focusing on the real issues.
The country’s elite, through the media, is creating this controversy. Why? Who really knows. To keep us from focusing on the phonies in government (both on the Left and Right)? To keep the money flowing into their pockets? To keep the wars raging on? To keep us from focusing on social security, health care, jobs, the economy? To keep us from focusing on the corruption in government? Anybody talking about the oil spill anymore?
Seriously, is having a mosque in that location truly going to affect the entire nation? People fail to mention that there already is a mosque in the area, two blocks north, and has been there since the ’70s.
Manufactured controversy by the country’s elite and everyone is falling for it.
Shiller sees double-dip if jobs aren’t created – MarketWatch
Sounds like we’re in for another downturn:
The U.S. economy has a “significant likelihood” of entering a double-dip recession if the government doesn’t step in to help the unemployed, economist Robert Shiller told MarketWatch News Break on Wednesday. Read more…
More than a few economists are suggesting a return to a recession due to bleak jobs outlook. From Huff Post:
the noted bear Nouriel Roubini, the president of RGE Monitor and a professor at New York University, delivered a grim prognostication via Twitter: “Risk of a double dip recession in advanced economies (US, Japan, Eurozone) has now risen to 40%.”
Roubini is not alone in his concern. Last week, David Rosenberg, the Gluskin Sheff economist (formerly of Merrill Lynch), whose words have become must-read barometers of bear-ishness, said that the chances of a double-dip recession in the U.S. are now “higher than 50-50.” Read more…
We’re in a Catch-22 situation. The outlook is bleak, because there are no jobs. Companies are holding their money and are not hiring because the outlook is bleak. The quickest way to break this cycle is to provide businesses with incentives to hire. The best thing the government can do at this point to spur job growth is to cut business taxes across the board, even if it’s for the short term. Provide tax reduction for companies that hire a minimum number of workers and keep them on for at least a 8 months. At the same time, the federal budget needs to be reduced. How about a 5% pay cut for federal workers, 10% for everyone in Congress?
