Rhymes with Tolerance: A Synagogue in Riyadh

Posted originally at Solomonia:



I wish the supporters of the Ground Zero Victory over the Great Satan Mosque would understand what it is that drives the opponents...other than the usual hate and intolerance yada yada.

It really isn't that hard to understand.  We know what goes on in mosques. We understand not because the press in this country has actually done its job and investigated what is said in the pulpits of the mosques. They haven't looked into the history of Islam honestly nor read the major texts of Islam to find out what they teach the faithful. We have had to do that, ourselves.

We have had to learn by searching, online for honest teachers who aren't afraid of being called names by the press. And what a mother lode of knowledge there is to be found for even the least curious among the incurious, gullible press. We have all had to make reassessments about the things we have taken for granted all of our lives. It isn't easy to admit that people aren't basically good at heart....but knowing Islam and how it malforms its followers, we can say that with comfortable certainty.



Of course, a few (you can count them on one hand) brave souls will actually do their job as journalists and report the facts about the actual state of the mosques, but you won't find them in this country. Sadly.

The press is incurious and contented. Their response is always to call the opposition 'Intolerant', 'Racist' and 'Islamophobic' .....why would anyone be THAT, I wonder?

So let's call them on their tolerance and make them 'prove' it. They won't be able to, but it's worth the effort just to prove that the press are all liars, and the Muslims driving this bomb packed bus to Ground Zero:

Go ahead, build your damn mosque, and then:

Let's build a synagogue in Riyadh,

A monastery in Mecca,

A convent near the Kaaba,

Maybe a three-decker.

A sweat lodge in the Kasbah,

And a Buddha in Beirut,

A church in Medina,

With an ashram there to boot.

Some Shinto shrines in Turkey,

A Chabad in the U.A.E.,

Let Wiccans into Iran,

And Baha'i in Abu Dhabi.

Let Amish ride their buggies

Through the streets of Kuwait,

While Qatar invites the Mormons

With the blessings of the state.

Sudan will shelter Druids,

Egypt all things Voodoo,

As Iraqis take in Zoroastrians

And Jehovah's Witnesses, too.

All these folks and many more

Live in the U.S.A.

They worship as they want to,

That's always been our way.

This is tolerance, my friends,

It's not a one-way street.

If it goes in one direction,

It leads only to defeat.

{Coda:

Mosques are built on sacred ground

Where atrocities have been,

To say one thing and make it clear,

To say, "You lose, we win."}

Posted at Solomonia by guest writer Ann Green

Crossposted at Tasty Infidelicacies