Mosque Makeovers With Your Tax Dollar

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

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Federal tax dollars to rebuild religious institutions in foreign lands of all places. And to top it off provide them internet access too to help spread their cause. Either we're blind & stupid or in league with the lot of them.

Yeah, it's much better to let them hate us for destroying all their stuff in the first place, and not try to do anything about it.

What's the big deal? We're not waiting in food lines with ration books. We're not out of gas. We're not dropping off pantyhose for military use, or donating old pots and pans to make airplanes.

Americans support the war, right? So... that's gotta mean more than a yellow ribbon magnet on a car. It means someone's got to foot the bill for the consequences of the war as much as the waging of it, and so far, I haven't once seen a line of my 1040 that says, "War Supply Fund (Optional)."

This was and is a war. With it comes costs. We, as the nation in the war, bear the responsibility of paying those costs - even if we don't agree with them, it is our nation, acting - ostensibly - on our behalf.

The America I was raised in provides for freedom of religious expression and freedom of the press. We destroyed their holy grounds - denying them that freedom, and limit their access to information, denying them that. Would it be better to be hated for being us, or being hated for being us and denying others the freedoms we claim to hold dear?

The Internet is a dangerous place, where all sorts of groups can spread their hate, right here in the US. Should we eliminate that danger here as well, if it's so bad?