Extremists on one side screaming out nonsense, only to be responded with nonsense by extremists on the other side. As long as it is only words, it's good entertainment, in real life.

But a deeper issue lays with 'idols' that the christian, jewish and muslims are deeply against.

Throughout centuries, the issue of idols had long been misunderstood.

There can be nothing on earth, created by man, that can be compared to the marvellous work of our common Creator. As such, idols or representatives of Him are but our vain attempts to put Him into object form to venerate across different civilisations, borders and cultures of Him who is known by many names, but only expected veneration should be comming from our hearts.

However, during ancient times, idols had a different meaning. Those were truly false gods upon which precious human lives created by our Creator were sacrificed, He was shocked when our ancestor Abrahim, would willingly sacrificed his one and only son when commanded by Him to do so.

Such was the strength of belief that humans would do upon faith, and if misplaced, would caused more harm than good. At the last minute of Abrahim's test, it was stopped. And thus, our Creator put a stop to idol worshipping practiced by then our ancestors, more importantly - human sacrifices.

Today, human sacrifices are no longer practised in the worship of any idols. Any that persists are stopped and arrested. The Statue of Liberty is not worshipped as a 'goddess' with human sacrifices as it had been in the ancient passed, but an object of beauty and symbol freedom, a work of art.

Americans and humans around the world knows true freedom lays not with that statue, but upon one's heart from guidance by our better forefathers.

However, if the extremists are calling for the destruction of this work of art and a symbol of freedom, then they are only committing one of the most heinous crimes that our Creator hates - and that is the sacrifice of human lives. How many humans would be needed to be sacrificed for that harmless statue?

Their call to destroy it is alone a crime of potential sacrificing of human lives, espacially those whom are ignorant, as Abraham had once been. At least Abraham's test involved the real sacrifice of a human life, but the statue of liberty? It is only a harmless work of art and symbol of freedom that the nutjobs would be killing themselves for, as well as any other innocent human tourists or free men protesting against destruction of harmless artistic symbolic property.

May all who view 'idols' fully comprehend what the real purpose of stopping idolatory had been once in our ancient past.

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This is more as it really is :

These people are as 'Muslim' as the Westboro Baptist Church is 'Christian'. That is, not very at all.

They pick and choose which scriptures to believe, which ones to misinterpret, which ones to focus on and which ones to ignore.

They are as representative of the Muslim opinion as Fred Phelps is of the Christian opinion. That is, not representative at all.

We never see any threads using 'them' and 'they' referring to all Christians when discussing the crazy opinions of these stupid extremist Christians. We always see 'them' and 'they' when discussing the crazy opinions of stupid extremist Muslims.

Food for thought.

This thickly tarred brush is starting to get too heavy for us all to bear the burden.

OP, don't lump all Muslims with these dafties. That makes you almost as bad as them.

Originally posted by OldCorp
After 9/11, American Muslims were given a pass - and rightly so - and there were virtually NO incidences of retaliation against people of the Muslim faith for what their more fanatical brethren had done.

After nearly ten years of CAIR, Anjem Choudary, the DISGRACE that masquerades as a memorial for 9/11 victims in PA, the proposed Ground Zero mosque, and innumerable other instances of Muslims taunting non-Muslims and rubbing our faces in the fact that they are using our own freedom to destroy us from within; demanding that we change our laws, and demanding tolerance and special accommodation for their beliefs when they give none back, I think I can safely say that the next time we are attacked, the non-Muslim population of the US will not be as forgiving or understanding and there most likely will be violence.

I think we've been pretty cool about the whole thing so far. Had this happened in 1950, we would have just glassed Kabul and been done with it; but 60 years of pussification at the hands of the Berkley crowd have irreparably damaged this country to the point where I fear she will not survive for my children to grow up in. Our leaders declare war and then conduct opinion polls to see if we're offending anybody. Well I have news for them: WAR IS PRETTY GOD DAMNED OFFENSIVE! If you're going to declare it - WAGE IT! - opinion polls and the Muslim street be damned. We could have been out of AFG five years ago if we had gone in to win. Anyone thinking we can win the hearts and minds of the Afghans, especially by bringing the Taliban into negotiations, is nucking futz. They take whatever aid we give them, then turn around and say to each other "What a bunch of morons. Don't they know we'd just as soon cut their heads off as look at them?"

But there will come a point when the people of THIS country are going to get fed up and pull a Howard Beal, rising up with one voice saying, "We're MAD AS HELL AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" Does it seem like I'm advocating violence? Well I'm not. I'm simply pointing out an inconvenient truth: When tensions get to that point, there will be no distinguishing between "terrorists" and "moderate Muslims." They will ALL be in danger, and while I'm all for sending a Hellfire up a terrorists wazoo, I'm not willing for a single innocent person - regardless of their faith - to be hurt or killed, although I know that is a pipe dream: in war, innocents die. It's just a fact. And make no mistake about it ladies and gentlemen: We ARE at war.

Truly moderate Muslims need to lift their voices to be heard above the calls of "Islam will dominate the world!" and "The White House will be a Mosque," and "Burka Lady Liberty!" They need to respect the laws of the US, and not even THINK about trying to implement shariah (and they need to - metaphorically - beat down anyone who does call for it.) Shariah law - religious law - is anathema to everything this country was founded upon. There is no such thing as "separation of church and state" in Islam. If Muslims want to live here, they need to leave that garbage back at home. (Why do people immigrate to the US and insist on bringing all of the old prejudices, hatreds, and medieval customs with them? This can be said of almost any ethnic group btw.)

And once they are here... Well I expect the same from them that I do from ANY American: LOYALTY to this country and its Constitution.

Is that expecting too much?

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good one!!

you bet we won't take another hit and give it up again. fool me once...

people think al-q was bad the first time? wait till it happens again, it will be ALL muslims this time.

i really don't like that, no american wants to resort to that kind of retaliation. you will loose the war here, along with the dummies that fight for you.

This site looks like a joke, the burning flag, the giant burka on Lady Liberty. Puh-lease, did AIPAC or the CIA put this site up? It's obviously designed to program you to hate Muslims. This same moron posts pictures of minarets over the white house and calls for jihad in America. Calling for the destruction of the statue of Liberty is just another one of these stunts.

If I were to put up a site calling for half the things this guy has, the government, my ISP, and every datacenter/host around would have pulled my site in a heartbeat. This site seems to be "protected" in spite of his outrageous open calls for terrorist acts. Like someone somewhere is making sure this site stays online, to stoke the hatred all so we let these wars just keep going on and on, and those defense budgets keep getting higher and higher.

I wouldn't doubt a certain 3-letter agency is funding this nutter.

God actually promotes Freedom directly.

We are granted "Free Will", and God believes in it so strongly we are allowed to disagree with God.

Ain't that something?

You Americans would let the Muslims walk all over you. I want to ask how is
multiculturalism working for ya hey? keep your borders open hahaha let anybody in hahaha your tax pays for this, and you love it. Barack is the most American looking and named person I know. not.

Since the average american can't differentiate between a normal muslim and an extremist muslim, I'd say that if muslims and islam as a religion want to survive, it's vital they learn from 9/11.

This will never happen ! I will be one American that will be standing at her feet to protect her. Even if it was built for another reason , It is a American MONUMENT !

It's happened before. In Afghanistan, the Taliban destroyed those Buddhas in 2001. Just from what I've read here, if it ever does come to pass, there's going to be a big tussle before it happens.

Originally posted by PinkAndBlack
It's an ugly statue donated by French free masons... BURN IT DOWN!

It's made of metal.