Super Ultra Victory Mosque set to become tallest building in the world!!

[Mickey Gomez]

The planned "ultra-mosque" will be a staggering 5,600ft tall – more than five times higher than the tallest building on Earth – and will be capped with an immense dome of highly-polished solid gold, carefully positioned to bounce sunlight directly toward the pavement, where it will blind pedestrians and fry small dogs. The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is.

I'm exaggerating. But I'm only exaggerating a tad more than some of the professional exaggerators who initially raised objections to the "Ground Zero mosque". They keep calling it the "Ground Zero mosque", incidentally, because it's a catchy title that paints a powerful image – specifically, the image of a mosque at Ground Zero.

When I heard about it – in passing, in a soundbite – I figured it was a US example of the sort of inanely confrontational fantasy scheme Anjem Choudary might issue a press release about if he fancied winding up the tabloids for the 900th time this year. I was wrong. The "Ground Zero mosque" is a genuine proposal, but it's slightly less provocative than its critics' nickname makes it sound. For one thing, it's not at Ground Zero. Also, it isn't a mosque.

Wait, it gets duller. It's not being built by extremists either. Cordoba House, as it's known, is a proposed Islamic cultural centre, which, in addition to a prayer room, will include a basketball court, restaurant, and swimming pool. Its aim is to improve inter-faith relations. It'll probably also have comfy chairs and people who smile at you when you walk in, the monsters.

To get to the Cordoba Centre from Ground Zero, you'd have to walk in the opposite direction for two blocks, before turning a corner and walking a bit more. The journey should take roughly two minutes, or possibly slightly longer if you're heading an angry mob who can't hear your directions over the sound of their own enraged bellowing.

Perhaps spatial reality functions differently on the other side of the Atlantic, but here in London, something that is "two minutes' walk and round a corner" from something else isn't actually "in" the same place at all. I once took a **** in a pub about two minutes' walk from Buckingham Palace. I was not subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen's pillow. That's how "distance" works in Britain. It's also how distance works in America, of course, but some people are currently pretending it doesn't, for daft political ends.

[AKATheMack]

Originally Posted by Mickey Gomez

The planned "ultra-mosque" will be a staggering 5,600ft tall – more than five times higher than the tallest building on Earth – and will be capped with an immense dome of highly-polished solid gold, carefully positioned to bounce sunlight directly toward the pavement, where it will blind pedestrians and fry small dogs. The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is.

I'm exaggerating. But I'm only exaggerating a tad more than some of the professional exaggerators who initially raised objections to the "Ground Zero mosque". They keep calling it the "Ground Zero mosque", incidentally, because it's a catchy title that paints a powerful image – specifically, the image of a mosque at Ground Zero.

When I heard about it – in passing, in a soundbite – I figured it was a US example of the sort of inanely confrontational fantasy scheme Anjem Choudary might issue a press release about if he fancied winding up the tabloids for the 900th time this year. I was wrong. The "Ground Zero mosque" is a genuine proposal, but it's slightly less provocative than its critics' nickname makes it sound. For one thing, it's not at Ground Zero. Also, it isn't a mosque.

Wait, it gets duller. It's not being built by extremists either. Cordoba House, as it's known, is a proposed Islamic cultural centre, which, in addition to a prayer room, will include a basketball court, restaurant, and swimming pool. Its aim is to improve inter-faith relations. It'll probably also have comfy chairs and people who smile at you when you walk in, the monsters.

To get to the Cordoba Centre from Ground Zero, you'd have to walk in the opposite direction for two blocks, before turning a corner and walking a bit more. The journey should take roughly two minutes, or possibly slightly longer if you're heading an angry mob who can't hear your directions over the sound of their own enraged bellowing.

Perhaps spatial reality functions differently on the other side of the Atlantic, but here in London, something that is "two minutes' walk and round a corner" from something else isn't actually "in" the same place at all. I once took a **** in a pub about two minutes' walk from Buckingham Palace. I was not subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen's pillow. That's how "distance" works in Britain. It's also how distance works in America, of course, but some people are currently pretending it doesn't, for daft political ends.

Interesting read and good insight, but your thread would have have been about 1,000,000X better if you had indeed taken a shit on the "Queens" pillow.

[Mickey Gomez]

Originally Posted by AKATheMack

Interesting read and good insight, but your thread would have have been about 1,000,000X better if you had indeed taken a shit on the "Queens" pillow.

I did not write this.

[AKATheMack]

Originally Posted by Mickey Gomez

I did not write this.

Doesnt change the fact that it still would have been cooler if you shat on the queens pillow.

[SirTomJones]

Size isn't everything Wazzaa will tell you.

[Junito-Rulez]

Who gives a ****? Religion is useless.

[SirTomJones]

Originally Posted by Junito-Rulez

Who gives a ****? Religion is useless.

Ignorance is bliss.

[Junito-Rulez]

Originally Posted by Tom Jones

Ignorance is bliss.

i respect people's faith but i can't believe all that bull**** about Adam and Eve and the snake.

[rocco1252]

but that apple was damn good wasnt it.

[Jim Jeffries]

I don't really care about the mosque and can't be bothered to read all of that nonsense, but the author of it should google a few things.

1. The origin of the "Ground Zero" name given to this proposed building.
2. Question why they decided to call it the Cordoba project.
3. We have a right to know where the funding for it comes from.
4. Why is Feisal Abdul Rauf being sent to the Middle East on the taxpayer dime, where he will surely seek funding for the whatever you want to call it?
5. Rauf has made some pretty controversial comments.

and

Rauf already has approval to build it.

The name of it seems to change back and forth between mosque and "cultural center" depending on whether they're trying to argue religious freedom or not.

The only rights that are being violated here are the First Amendment rights of those who think this whole thing is in poor taste.

Several prominent democrats are against this thing, like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Rep Jason Altmire, Florida Senate candidate Jeff Greene, and apparently 54% of registered democrats. So quit trying to make this issue partisan.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner...atthew-shaffer