The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[scaeagles]

The Los Alamos Historical Museum celebrating the Manhattan Project is probably a pretty cool place, but I might suspect it would considered in poor taste to build it in a suburb of Hiroshima.

There are protests here in Phoenix (though granted they are much smaller) about the building of a Mormon chruch because, even though zoned properly, the nearby residents don't like how high the steeple will be. The Mormon church has sat down with the residents to try to discuss their concerns, and has compromised on it.

Of course they have a right to build it. This is not in question in my mind.

I don't think this is about the building of a Mosque, or I guess an Islamic Community Center, but about the relations and perhaps poor taste of choosing to build it there, particularly when the the project is largely headed by an Imam who refuses to even acknowledge Hamas is a terrorist organization. If this was built a couple of miles away there might be protests, sure, but nothing to the extent of what is happening now.

When you throw all this in with this story about the only chruch destroyed on 9/11 that still hasn't been allowed to rebuild, it does cause one to wonder why the Islamic Center is seemingly fast tracked but the Greek Orthodox Church, which was there before the attacks, is being blocked.