Robert Spencer: Ground Zero Strip Club is OK, No to Islamic Cultural Center
by Rousseau
How a strip club “at” Ground Zero doesn’t cheapen the sanctity of Ground Zero, while an Islamic cultural center does, is only something a wannabe conquistador could fathom.
Robert Spencer is enraged at the wording used by Politico’s Ben Smith in describing the so-called Ground Zero mosque as “actually a few blocks north of the site…” For Spencer, anywhere you can see Ground Zero may be hallowed ground.
Spencer says:
In the first place, the mosque will not be a few blocks away. I have been to the site, and can tell you: walk half a block down the street from the Burlington Coat Factory that is set to be the site of the mega-mosque, turn left, and you will see Ground Zero. Smith and Haberman have apparently never been to the site, as no one who has could characterize it as “a few blocks north.” It is actually just 600 feet away from Ground Zero.
See, since you can walk a half-block down from the proposed mosque site and then turn to your left and see Ground Zero from 600 feet away this means that the mosque is actually “at” Ground Zero. Right.
So next time you’re looking over the New York skyline from the Empire State Building, remember that you’re standing on hallowed ground even though you’re a mile away from Ground Zero. Or hey, looking at Ground Zero from Google Maps could even make your bedroom hallowed ground.
This is a game of semantics. Spencer is arguing that the mosque is not a few blocks away from Ground Zero, but a mere 600 feet away. So? The implication is that by being 600 feet away, the mosque “near” Ground Zero is in fact “at” Ground Zero. Therefore, the mosque shouldn’t be there. What’s silly about all this is that “the actual mosque location is surrounded by delis, coffeeshops, bars, offices — not to mention a strip club a few feet away from the proposed site,” as Danial Luban points out. None of these trivial and even erotic sites enrage Spencer like the mosque does. How a strip club “at” Ground Zero doesn’t cheapen the sanctity of Ground Zero, while an Islamic cultural center does, is only something a wannabe conquistador could fathom.
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August 17th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
And let’s not forget what the actual 9-11 hijackers did before striking:
they went to a strip club.
Clearly, men who enjoy strip clubs = 9/11 hijackers
and the other strip club fans will see this as a symbol of their triumph!
August 17th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Hopefully Pamela won’t be part of Spencer’s club. That would be really insensitive to the eyes of the club’s patrons.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
I demand that our resident Islamophobes come out and support the Ground Zero Strip Club! They need to celebrate their respect for women and freedom from Sharia by enjoying the services only a seedy little whorehouse can provide.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Dirty old Spencer just needs a place to hang out before and after his ground zero protests.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
lolol@amina. Regarding spencer, he is just a nut job
August 17th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
I said it before personally as a Muslim I wouldn’t make a mosque there just to avoid tensions. I would suggest the mosques to take money from the city and create even a bigger one 5 blocks away, lol.
But I do support there religious freedom to do so. To those who oppose it why is there a mega embassy in Iraq where the US has inflicted thousands of 9/11, why is there US military base in Hiroshima and Nagasaki specifically chosen to kill civilians twice who had nothing to do with war? Why is there Catholic Churches near children’s playground? Why is there churches near abortion clinics, near timothy mcveigh bombing, near the olympics(eric robert rudolph bombing)?
August 18th, 2010 at 2:03 am
I think robert and jihadwatchers are fine with the strip club just as long as its not a Muslim strip club.
August 18th, 2010 at 5:02 am
I think part of the Mosque at ground Zero should be turned into a HOURI centre with young Muslim virgins so that the Kafirs could pre-taste the pleasures of JANNA and be attracted to Islam.Look how many more coverts to Islam it would gain.
August 18th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Do you morons have anything of substance to say? Or do you just like to troll websites that challenge your master Rob.Spencer and expose him as the racist bigotted snake oil salesman he really is?
August 18th, 2010 at 11:05 am
Well at least we know what Spencer was doing in the neighborhood. Hey Spencer is that a wad of one dollar bills in your pocket or are you just glad that you are destroying the principles this country was founded on?
August 18th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Where are the loons? I wanted to ridicule them.
ahhh…
August 18th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
@lawrence:
I don’t know about a houri center lawrence but we could certainly put up a ‘pin the tail on the donkey’ event for children and you could play the role of the donkey…:)
I’m sure all the muslims and non-muslims will enjoy a good laugh at your expense…:D
August 19th, 2010 at 3:18 am
Keith Olbermann Special Comment: There Is No ‘Ground Zero Mosque’
August 19th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Strange how you don’t mention that a landing gear of one of the planes landed on the GZMosque. Just how much closer do you need to be to be considered Ground Zero?
You folks are so predictable. Support any group or idea that wants to knock America down. The intransigence of Park51 owners tells volumes about their true intentions.
Lastly Islam is a political movement that does not deserve protections of a real religion.
August 19th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
real american, what constitutes a real religion? Pretty much all major religions have been used for political purposes.
Ashoka, for example, converted to Buddhism and made it the state religion–conveniently after conquering much of India–to bring peace and order to his empire
“During the short reign (1494–1498) of Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican priest, the city of Florence could have been considered a theocracy. During his rule, un-Christian books, statues, poetry, and other items were burned (in the Bonfire of the Vanities), sodomy was made a capital offense, and other Christian practices became law.” (wikipedia)
I think Islam, about 1,400 years old and about 1.5 billion followers, can be considered a religion.
August 21st, 2010 at 1:05 am
@”real american”
What a buffoon, it’s thanks to idiots like yourself that America is going down the tube. Islam is most certainly a religion, and far better one then [snipped by Danios]