So many of these seem like shitposts this could practically just be a clickhole video

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    I remember reading how a mosque got approved to be built somewhere nearby and a ton of residents protested it, and eventually the citied turned around and prohibited it from being built

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      It wasn't just a bunch of residents, it was an organised campaign by a designated hate group, boosted by Fox and backed by many Democrats.

      The mosque and interfaith cultural center was going to be at least two city blocks from the site of WTC, but both the name 'the Ground Zero Mosque' that stuck and the campaign itself was started by Stop Islamification Of America.

      It was an offshoot that was specifically started at the request of the leader of Stop Islamification Of Nations in Europe, which is a straight up anti-Muslim hate group, proscribed in some countries despite their own government's Islamophobia, and connected to other racist orgs like Generation Identity and the English Defense League here in the UK.

    • orangejuche [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      A mosque would have been based. That would have been like a cultural victory in a game of civ.