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Build a Mcdonalds there

problem solved.

Actually, how about a McWalmart? Instead of it being a McDonald's inside Wal-Mart, it would instead be a little microcosm of tyranny inside a McDonald's.

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Yawn. That guy sounds like he read that out of the Daily Mail. And since we're down to posting these polarising viewpoints, here's one from a paper on the other end of the spectrum to the Mail:

Charlie Brooker hands you your arse.

It just goes to show that even the most ignorant opinion can be fashioned into something that sounds vaguely like reason.

I have no doubt that this person firmly believes in what he is saying, but his rhetoric does nothing to address the root of the issue. He and others may be offended by the proposal, but it is precisely this opinion which plays into the hands of those who would political hay from this.

Is Westminster Cathedral an affront to Protestants killed during The Troubles?
Is the Sri Guru Singh Saba an affront to the families of those who were killed on AI182?

As for his assumptions about intent, and his didacticism about the teachings of Islam, neither are grounded in fact. It is agitprop masquerading as reason, and I reject his assertions.

Does the adjective "polarizing" convey the meaning of "invalidating" to you? Do you consider a viewpoint to be unsound if it leads to disagreement?

Everybody is ignorant of that which they do not know, and when people classify things as "ignorant" in order to dismiss them offhand they themselves actually induce ignorance in themselves.

Nope. But I consider one person being 'for' something and one person being 'against' something to be polarising. Since there's no middle ground over that 'victorious Jihadist' BS going on, and there's nothing about a compromise on distance (since it's actually something like 2 or 3 city blocks from the WTC site), then they are polarising views. There's no agreeable points in the middle, therefore, it's polarising. With an 's'.