Re: 'Pee on Hitler’ bed pan and urinal are big draws at German toilet museum

Furor erupts over American Jews' plan to build a synagogue near Ground
Zero
By Ethics Bob

Some Americans are up in arms over the prospect of a big new synagogue
in the old Burlington Coat Factory site near Ground Zero, the site of
the World Trade Center towers destroyed on 9/11. There's even a
Facebook page called "1,000,000+ people who disapprove of building a
synagogue at Ground Zero!" It has 20,389 members, up from about 7,000
two days ago. The word is spreading virally on the internet, and
people are thronging to the site to sign up.

The site's self-description reads,

Jews want to put a SYNAGOGUE WITHIN 600 FEET "GROUND ZERO"! This
page's opinion is this synagogue is a symbol of conquering America;
they could have put it somewhere else away from Ground Zero – hallowed
ground – but they chose this spot for a reason.

Join us, and show America – and the Jewish world – that is an insult,
and cannot stand!

This groups is NOT about attacking Judaism or Jews; it's about the
appropriateness of putting such a building in that location. Also,
Obama has nothing to do with it; if you want to blame someone, blame
Mayor Bloomberg – he approved of it.
The man leading the effort to build the synagogue is Rabbi Frank
Rubenstein, who explained to The New York Times, "We want the world to
know we condemn 9/11. In my congregation are many people who died on
9/11." The Times described the rabbi as following a path of Judaism
focused more on spiritual wisdom than on strict ritual, and as a
bridge builder, he is sometimes focused more on cultivating relations
with those outside his faith than within it.

The rabbi is the author of What's Right with Judaism, about which the
Christian Science Monitor called "An invigorating glimpse into the
heart and mind of a wise Jew seeking the higher ground."
Anti-Semitism at work? Not in the usual sense. This story is
unbelievable in 2010, although it wouldn't have been unbelievable 75
years ago. Hatred of Jews is not acceptable in today's America. But
every word above is true—or would be true—if you just change Jew to
Muslim, synagogue to mosque, and change Rabbi Frank Rubenstein to Imam
Feisal Abdul Rauf.
The Imam is a graduate of Columbia University and has worked for
twenty years to build bridges between American Muslims and the broad
public, and between America and the Muslim world. He is a leader in
the world of patriotic American Muslims who are America's biggest
asset in convincing the Muslim world that their future lies with
collaborating with the West rather than going to war with it.
So when he starts to build a mosque near Ground Zero to demonstrate
solidarity with the victims and opposition to the terrorists,
Americans should embrace him, not sign up to stop him out of a
misguided idea that Muslims are America's enemies.

On Apr 8, 12:59 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> They need a "Pee on Mohammed" urinal.
>
> http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/860263-pee-on-adolf-hitler-urinal-is-big...

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