{"id":11355,"date":"2010-08-31T16:05:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T16:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/31\/the-holy-roman-empire-and-the-ground-zero-mosque\/"},"modified":"2010-08-31T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T16:05:31","slug":"the-holy-roman-empire-and-the-ground-zero-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/31\/the-holy-roman-empire-and-the-ground-zero-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holy Roman Empire and the Ground Zero Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somewhere in Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity<\/em> he employs the example of the Holy Roman Empire which was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire.  Well, I heard the Ground Zero mosque described this morning by a Muslim on C-Span as neither at Ground Zero nor a mosque.  As for the first claim, take a gander at this aerial shot (<\/font>image credit<\/font><\/a>):<\/font><\/p>\n

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The mosque site appears to be about two and a half city blocks from GZ.  That should count as close enough to justify the moniker 'GZM.'  After all, it couldn't be built right at<\/em> GZ!  As for the second point, that the GZM is not a mosque,  is  true in part: it will be a mosque enveloped by an Islamic center — which is arguably worse.<\/font><\/p>\n

But judgments on these matters differ wildly, don't they?  Meanwhile, it turns out that the GZM developer, Sharif el-Gamal has <\/font>quite a rap sheet<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Somewhere in Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity he employs the example of the Holy Roman Empire which was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire.  Well, I heard the Ground Zero mosque described this morning by a Muslim on C-Span as neither at Ground Zero nor a mosque.  As for the first claim, take a gander … Continue reading “The Holy Roman Empire and the Ground Zero Mosque”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}