# Ideas as wise as ground zero mosque **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 25, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349 "2010-08-25T00:58:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FE3O4ENAIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/1 "2010-08-25T00:58:51Z")
I vote for Kent State National Guard Marksmanship Range. Or “A celebration of American Technology-The Manhatten Project” in Hiroshima ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/2 "2010-08-25T01:13:42Z")
Puh-lease :::eyeroll::: ---
**Author:** ![FE3O4ENAIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/3 "2010-08-25T01:16:05Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Puh-lease :::eyeroll::: Its all in fun, wanna play? ---
**Author:** ![FE3O4ENAIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/4 "2010-08-25T01:25:24Z")
Step one: Take a horrific moment in history were many died at the hand of a deluded few. Step two: Name something that could be erected at the site that should be acceptable, but strikes a nerve. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/5 "2010-08-25T01:33:21Z")
Islam had nothing to do with 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![FE3O4ENAIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/6 "2010-08-25T01:38:19Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Islam had nothing to do with 9/11. You are no fun either, it is a game, not a debate. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/7 "2010-08-25T02:13:56Z")
A Weber BBQ museum at Dachau? ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/8 "2010-08-25T02:33:55Z")
- Saddam Hussein’s WMDs - The 205 communists who were working in the State Department in 1950 Shall I continue? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/9 "2010-08-25T02:34:45Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > A Weber BBQ museum at Dachau? Or a Kingsford plant in Tokyo. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/10 "2010-08-25T02:35:50Z")
… ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/11 "2010-08-25T04:11:42Z")
I know he’s been dead for over 30 years but I still don’t think it’s a good idea to grind up Zero Mostel. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/12 "2010-08-25T12:40:41Z")
Building an amusement park on an old Indian burial ground and then hiring Spooky Old Mr. Withers as the night watchman. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/13 "2010-08-25T13:06:07Z")
> [@FE3O4ENAIL](#): > > Step one: Take a horrific moment in history were many died at the hand of a deluded few. > Step two: Name something that could be erected at the site that should be acceptable, but strikes a nerve. Nobody has proposed that a mosque be erected at the site of Ground Zero. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/14 "2010-08-25T13:13:08Z")
How about public exhibition of intolerance and bigotry in a country whose ground-breaking constitution codifies precisely the opposite? ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/15 "2010-08-25T13:23:47Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > How about public exhibition of intolerance and bigotry in a country whose ground-breaking constitution codifies precisely the opposite? But ALL MUSLIMS ARE EVIL!\* So, it’s ok to be intolerant and bigoted. \*Absolutely not my point of view, although it is the one of some of my ‘religious’ relatives. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/16 "2010-08-25T13:24:37Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > How about public exhibition of intolerance and bigotry in a country whose ground-breaking constitution codifies precisely the opposite? Even better if the display of intolerance is supported by ‘The Tolerance Museum’ [museum\_of\_tolerance\_director\_opposes\_mosque](http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/museum_of_tolerance_director_opposes_mosque_but_bu.php) ---
**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/17 "2010-08-25T13:36:07Z")
> [@FE3O4ENAIL](#): > > I vote for Kent State National Guard Marksmanship Range. > > Or “A celebration of American Technology-The Manhatten Project” in Hiroshima Considering that one of the purposes of the proposed cultural center on Park Place is to foster understanding between cultures, so that shit like 9/11 doesn’t happen again, I think a more analogous thing at the original Ground Zero (the one in Hiroshima, that is) would be a Japanese-American cultural exchange center. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/18 "2010-08-25T13:46:17Z")
I suppose Columbine should get a teenager’s shooting gallery :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/19 "2010-08-25T13:58:02Z")
It cannot be said the members of the SDMB don’t not have an underdeveloped sense of humor, or political correctness, or knee sensitivity, or something…and shit. ---
**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349/20 "2010-08-25T14:06:58Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > It cannot be said the members of the SDMB don’t not have an underdeveloped sense of humor, or political correctness, or knee sensitivity, or something…and shit. Or, perhaps, this just isn’t funny. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ideas-as-wise-as-ground-zero-mosque/551349.md?page=2)