# Why are the media ignoring the protest against the ground zero mosque? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 8, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367 "2010-06-08T00:48:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/181 "2010-06-10T03:20:56Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > Make no mistake about it, what should fill you with nausea and alarm is what Muslims have in mind not only for Israel but for for Jews like you (and gay atheists like me) if they should ever win. No more than what most of the people of your mindset (Wilders included) would do to gay atheists if they gain power. > [@](#): > > So a progressive Muslim is one who does not actually say that women should be draped into a cloth prison and isolated from society? Wow. I guess with Islam you take your progressives where you can find them. No, you fucking idiot. I pointed out that he didn’t say that because you insinuated he did. You’re either a complete dunce or a very clever troll. Either way I am done with you. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/182 "2010-06-10T03:26:16Z")
**Valteron** will not consider acceptable any situation involving Islam other than its complete elimination from the face of the earth. No form of Islamic liberalism or modernism or ecumenism can ever be moderate or liberal or tolerant enough for him. If any Muslim individual or organization claims to support liberal or secular values, he simply assumes that they’re lying in order to lull us into a false sense of security. In practical terms, **Valteron** and the radical hatemongering mullahs are on the same side. The radical mullahs tell their people that the rest of the world wants to destroy them, and **Valteron** and his ilk confirm their fears. Then the hatemongers launch out into another violent or repressive attack, and that reinforces the **Valterons** ’ conviction that the only solution is the entire destruction of Islam. A nice little vicious cycle of hatred and fear, absolutely impervious to rational thought from either direction. Pity. ---
**Author:** ![Valteron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f17d59/32.png) [@Valteron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valteron)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/183 "2010-06-10T03:33:38Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > No more than what most of the people of your mindset (Wilders included) would do to gay atheists if they gain power. Have you ever bothered to find out where Wilders stands on gays? Did you know that he refused to make a film backing him because the ones making it were a homophobic right-wing Christian group? Do you know that he is respectful of gay rights and is himself an atheist? Did you know that the English Defence League have a Gay-Lesbian Division, and that gay members proudly march with them carrying pink triangles, the symbol of Nazi extermination of gays in WWII? Look for LGBT Division of EDL on Facebook why don’t you? Gays realize they are fighting for their lives when it comes to the world jihad. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/184 "2010-06-10T03:41:03Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > …the world jihad. There IS no world jihad, you asinine pudding-witted twit! There is a Wahhabist psuedo-Sunni movement that commits terror acts and gets hold of the occasional third-world shithole. There’s a Shia movement in Iran etc that is more interested in political power in the gulf than anything else, and it’s being actively fought by most non-Iranian Shiites. That’s it. Period. You want to wipe out a religion based on trumped up charges. You are, therefore, exactly the same as Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/185 "2010-06-10T03:44:05Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > Gays realize they are fighting for their lives when it comes to the world jihad. Bullshit. You’re not the only gay person in this thread, you know. And you don’t speak for all gays. I think your entire performance in this thread and the other two touching on this mosque has been disgusting, bigoted and about as right-wing as they come. You may think of yourself as a leftist or liberal or whatever, but on this subject, you are so far to the right it’s not even funny. You’re about thisfar from advocating the destruction of every Muslim in the world. Not liberal. Not leftist. Not SANE! ---
**Author:** ![Valteron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f17d59/32.png) [@Valteron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valteron)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/186 "2010-06-10T03:44:49Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > **Valteron** will not consider acceptable any situation involving Islam other than its complete elimination from the face of the earth. I don’t recall saying that. What I do say is that the west is finally waking up and defending itself. Muslims can remain in their own countries imposing Islam, stoning, repressing women, hanging gays, murdering apostates, cutting off hands, whatever turns them on. It is our western way of life I want to protect. ---
**Author:** ![Valteron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f17d59/32.png) [@Valteron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valteron)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/187 "2010-06-10T03:47:06Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > There IS no world jihad, you asinine pudding-witted twit! There is a Wahhabist psuedo-Sunni movement that commits terror acts and gets hold of the occasional third-world shithole. There’s a Shia movement in Iran etc that is more interested in political power in the gulf than anything else, and it’s being actively fought by most non-Iranian Shiites. That’s it. Period. > > You want to wipe out a religion based on trumped up charges. You are, therefore, exactly the same as Hitler. I never said I wanted to wipe out every Muslim, now did I? ---
**Author:** ![Valteron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f17d59/32.png) [@Valteron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valteron)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/188 "2010-06-10T03:49:10Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Bullshit. You’re not the only gay person in this thread, you know. And you don’t speak for all gays. I think your entire performance in this thread and the other two touching on this mosque has been disgusting, bigoted and about as right-wing as they come. You may think of yourself as a leftist or liberal or whatever, but on this subject, you are so far to the right it’s not even funny. You’re about thisfar from advocating the destruction of every Muslim in the world. Not liberal. Not leftist. Not SANE! I don’t recall saying I wanted to destroy every Muslim. What I do say is that the west is finally waking up and defending itself. Muslims can remain in their own countries imposing Islam, stoning, repressing women, hanging gays, murdering apostates, cutting off hands, whatever turns them on. It is our western way of life I want to protect. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/189 "2010-06-10T03:55:08Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > I don’t recall saying I wanted to destroy every Muslim. What I do say is that the west is finally waking up and defending itself. Muslims can remain in their own countries imposing Islam, stoning, repressing women, hanging gays, murdering apostates, cutting off hands, whatever turns them on. It is our western way of life I want to protect. So, what, in 50 years when amazingly, Muslims have not taken over any Western countries by any definition of the term (because they’re not trying to, you addle-brained psuedo-leftist bigoted halfwit), are you going to admit we were right or just self-congratulatedly assume your efforts were successful? I don’t believe in Hell, so I can’t consign you there. I kinda hope in your next lifetime, after a long and full life in which you are never actually credibly threatened by anything, you end up reborn as a liberal Muslim in a town full of people just like your current self. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/190 "2010-06-10T03:56:34Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > Gays realize they are fighting for their lives when it comes to the world jihad. A pity that some of them don’t pay more attention to their allies in the struggle to defend their rights, such as [the Muslim mayor of an Amsterdam suburb who invited the Amsterdam Gay Pride Parade into his town](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/02/muslim-mayors-gay-rights_n_225255.html): > [@](#): > > Ahmed Marcouch, the Muslim mayor of Slotervaart, an uncharacteristically conservative suburb of Amsterdam, is fighting back against a long-lived trend of homophobia in that town by inviting Amsterdam’s annual gay pride parade to march right down main street, as it were. And Maryland politician [Saqib Ali, who wrote an op-ed piece in favor of marriage equality](http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/muslim_and_pro-gay_marriage) (something that many so-called “freedom-loving” and “tolerant” Christian groups are absolutely opposed to, by the way): > [@](#): > > "My stance on this issue isn’t politically expedient. I am the first Muslim in the legislature. Homosexuality is strictly forbidden in Islam. As such I have evinced much grief from my most conservative supporters. > > But I recognize that I represent people of all faiths and no faith at all. If I tried to enforce religion by law — as in a theocracy — I would be doing a disservice to my both constituents and to my religion." You’ll get a lot farther in your mission by supporting the liberal, tolerant Muslims who stick their necks out to declare that Islam and equal rights for gays and women **can** coexist than you will by agreeing with the hatemongering mullahs who claim that Islam and equal rights **can’t** coexist. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/191 "2010-06-10T04:07:53Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > Muslims can remain in their own countries imposing Islam, stoning, repressing women, hanging gays, murdering apostates, cutting off hands, whatever turns them on. It is our western way of life I want to protect. :eek: Well, **Valteron** , I thought that nothing you said could surprise me anymore, but I guess I was wrong. So, it turns out that you’re not just an Islamophobic bigot, you’re a despicably callous and xenophobic bigot who doesn’t really care even about the rights or lives of fellow gay people, as long as they live in “Muslim countries” rather than in your own precious “western” world. Good golly, I thought at **least** your hatred and bigotry had the redeeming feature of being inspired by genuine concern for oppressed minorities, particularly gays, wherever they are suffering from violent radical Islamism. But it turns out that you don’t actually give a flying fuck about the oppression of gays as long as it isn’t happening in your own backyard. You sneer at liberals who allegedly excuse Islamist human rights abuses in the name of “multiculturalism”, but your own indifference is even more abominable, since it isn’t even inspired by overzealous egalitarianism. Apparently, you hate Muslims so much that you don’t even really care about the suffering of Muslim women and gays, as long as it doesn’t happen where you have to see it or where it might affect your own selfish life. You are a disgusting piece of shit, and you and the mullahs deserve each other. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/192 "2010-06-10T04:09:03Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > I don’t recall saying I wanted to destroy every Muslim. What I do say is that the west is finally waking up and defending itself. Muslims can remain in their own countries imposing Islam, stoning, repressing women, hanging gays, murdering apostates, cutting off hands, whatever turns them on. It is our western way of life I want to protect. What are you actually doing to protect “our western way of life”? I mean, **really doing**! Impress us. (Folks, don’t judge Canada by this impotent loony. [Here’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek_Fatah) one of the many good Canadians!) ---
**Author:** ![ElectricZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58f4c7/32.png) [@ElectricZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElectricZ)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/193 "2010-06-10T05:21:53Z")
So here we have a thread started by a liberal, atheist, gay guy who is espousing the same kind of hatred and vitriol that he himself is likely to have encountered at the hands of his own countrymen because of who he is. His only involvement in any threads are this one and one where [someone is asking to rebut a hate-filled email about muslims](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12555869#post12555869). I’m smellin’ a little bullshit here. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/194 "2010-06-10T10:06:43Z")
I think much can be explained if one assumes that **Valteron** is a coward. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/195 "2010-06-10T11:26:42Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > :eek: Well, **Valteron** , I thought that nothing you said could surprise me anymore, but I guess I was wrong. > > So, it turns out that you’re not just an Islamophobic bigot, you’re a despicably callous and xenophobic bigot who doesn’t really care even about the rights or lives of fellow gay people, as long as they live in “Muslim countries” rather than in your own precious “western” world. > > Good golly, I thought at **least** your hatred and bigotry had the redeeming feature of being inspired by genuine concern for oppressed minorities, particularly gays, wherever they are suffering from violent radical Islamism. But it turns out that you don’t actually give a flying fuck about the oppression of gays as long as it isn’t happening in your own backyard. > > You sneer at liberals who allegedly excuse Islamist human rights abuses in the name of “multiculturalism”, but your own indifference is even more abominable, since it isn’t even inspired by overzealous egalitarianism. Apparently, you hate Muslims so much that you don’t even really care about the suffering of Muslim women and gays, as long as it doesn’t happen where you have to see it or where it might affect your own selfish life. > > You are a disgusting piece of shit, and you and the mullahs deserve each other. **Kimtsu** , you missed the salient point. **Valteron** would be full of sympathy and loving-kindness for the suffering women and gays in these countries were it not for the fact that they are themselves Muslim. That trumps everything else, and because of it they deserve whatever happens to them. Having waded through this entire thread (Og knows why — I must be doing penance for some unremembered but hideous act), I can’t think of anything that I can compare **Valteron** to that wouldn’t be overly insulting. To the other party, of course. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/196 "2010-06-10T12:12:31Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > I forgot to mention there is a Muslim couple on our street. The wife wears a black Burqua and veil[…] :rolleyes: If she was wearing a burqa, you wouldn’t be able to tell if she was wearing a veil or not, as [a burqa covers the face!](http://www.bloggang.com/data/clear-ice/picture/1211892472.jpg) How about trying to find out what her clothes are actually called, rather than just grabbing the strongest hot-button word you can think of? Is that too close to tolerance for you? ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/197 "2010-06-10T12:46:31Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > I forgot to mention there is a Muslim couple on our street. The wife wears a black Burqua and veil, and seems to have another kid in the stroller every year. I think they are up to three kids in three years. I know that this is a small point amongst the vast paranoid craziness that is **Valteron** , but I got a good laugh out of the terror of a family having 3 kids in three years!!!:eek::eek: O.M.G. It made me think of the nice, Caucasian and (I believe) Christian woman in my office had 4 kids in three years. Or my wife’s parents, who had 10 kids in 18 years. What a creepy stalker vibe I got from **Voltron’s** description of the situation in his neighborhood. He’s talking to everyone about this family but the family themselves, and then he throws in some urban legend (that nobody wants to admit due to political correctness!!!) about the husbands locking the families in the home during the day. Dude, you’re out there like fucking Pluto. I’m glad you don’t live in my neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/198 "2010-06-10T14:17:37Z")
> [@Zeriel](#): > > Oh, I’d say it could be as close as a 75% racist, 25% idiot split. I think racists are idiots by definition, but let’s not fight. 😃 > [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > I know that this is a small point amongst the vast paranoid craziness that is **Valteron** , but I got a good laugh out of the terror of a family having 3 kids in three years!!!:eek::eek: O.M.G. Dude, of course he’s terrified. They’re _BREEDERS_! ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/199 "2010-06-10T14:57:16Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > Why do you think groups like the English Defence League are spawning sister organizations in France, Germany, Canada, the US and wherever people want to defend our western way of life and values against Islamization and the “Religion of Peace”. > . Gee, I don’t know, why did Nazi-influenced hate groups spring up all over America and Europe to defend themselves from the Lying Jew, bent on world domination? Perhaps the answer to both questions is that where ever you go, there are some assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Valteron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f17d59/32.png) [@Valteron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valteron)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367/200 "2010-06-10T18:45:57Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > :eek: > > Good golly, I thought at **least** your hatred and bigotry had the redeeming feature of being inspired by genuine concern for oppressed minorities, particularly gays, wherever they are suffering from violent radical Islamism. But it turns out that you don’t actually give a flying fuck about the oppression of gays as long as it isn’t happening in your own backyard. > You are a disgusting piece of shit, and you and the mullahs deserve each other. Thank you, Kimstu, for your colourful if somewhat scatological description. I am not without compassion for the millions of women, gays, atheists and freethinkers, religious minority groups and others who must suffer under the benighted hand of Islamofascism in Muslim countries. But realistically speaking, I doubt if the Muslim world will change in any forseeable future. Indeed, the movement, in countries like Turkey for example, is AWAY from secularism. Groups like the Taliban, who have growing incluence in Pakistan, for example, and other Islamist movements are growing daily. I want to start by protecting our own back yard, here in the West. If we lose our traditions of democracy, gender equality, freedom, secularism, separation of church and state, freedom of expression, and so on in accomodating Muslim demands, there is not much point in worrying about changing the Islamic world. And make no mistake about it, if we do not defend our freedoms, they will die the death of a thousand cuts. South Park censors itself. College professors who are not Muslims show “cultural sensitivity” by giving in to the demands of Muslim students who insist that they mumble “Peace be unto him” when they mention Mohammed. Harvard publishes a book about the “Cartoons that Shook the World” but, unbelievably, does not have the balls to publish the cartoons in the book. Polygamists who are clearly violating our laws are not prosecuted. As Sam Harris has written, when Muslims began flooding into the west, it was as if there had been some sort of rip in the fabric of time and millions of people from the middle ages were flooding into our modern world. Perhaps the biggest challenge we face in defending the west is the lack of concern by knee-jerk multicultural apologists. For example, it is well known in the international gay community that gay-bashing by Muslim gangs is on the rise in cities like Amsterdam, Paris, London or Berlin. Some gay groups whose leaders are constipated by political correctness refuse to use the term “Muslim” but refer to “immigrant gangs”. But everyone in the gay community knows what is happening and who is doing it. Bruce Bawer, author of “While Europe Slept” records that his same-sex spouse has been gay-bashed twice in Europe in the last couple of years, both times by Muslim gangs. Interestingly enough, there have been cases lately where straight lads from the English Defence League in London have come upon Muslim thugs beating up gays outside London pubs and have “sorted them” as the English expression goes. There is a growing LGBT section of the English Defence League, and gays and lesbians in London march with the EDL carrying pink triangles to proclaim their gay pride at EDL demos. But when this growing problem of gay-bashing is brought up to multicultural apologists, we get the same moral relativist song-and-dance (there are homophobic Christians too) or the “cultural relativity” argument. With that kind of bullshit about what is happening here in the west, you expect me to be concerned about the whole Islamic world and its oppressed millions? But my comments notwithstanding, I AM concerned about the oppressed in Muslim countries. Our first line of protection is to seriously limit immigration from Islamic countries. Given that Geert Wilders did so well in yesterday’s Dutch election, going from 9 to 23 seats and possibly holding the balance of power in a coalition, the Netherlands may be the first western country, but hopefully not the last, to limit immigration as a means of self-defense. But at the same time, I would favour a very generous refugee program to help women, gays, atheists, freethinkers, democrats, secularists, minority religious groups and other victims of the Religion of Peace to flee Islamic countries. Indeed, people of their ilk, like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Salmon Rushdie and other dissidents tend to be courageous, intelligent, high-quality people who care about freedom and democracy and would make ideal immigrants to the west. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-the-media-ignoring-the-protest-against-the-ground-zero-mosque/542367.md?page=11)