muezzin
It’s about 8:00 AM, and I didn’t realize I live near a mosque. But right now, I can hear the muezzin calling Muslims to prayer. The sound is coming through the home office window, clear as a bell.
It’s kind of bizarre, but cool at the same time. I hope that awful pastor from Florida doesn’t show up to burn books on my front lawn.
But right on time, local bigot and right-wing hatemonger Christine Flowers shows up to argue that constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion doesn’t matter and the community center should be moved, because the empty Burlington Coat Factory building where it will be sited is hallowed ground, like the strip bar next to it.
My buddy Bill put it best a few weeks ago: when the right wing wanted a war in Iraq, all they could talk about was their concern for the freedom of Muslims: they even called their war “Operation Iraqi Freedom”. Well, now those Muslims are free, and some American adherents to the faith want to exercise those same freedoms, and the GOP daddies are nowhere to be found, and the “freedom-loving” rightists have decided that maybe freedom’s only for Nice Christian People (TM).
Idiots.
