Today’s news of worsening relations with Turkey-- long a Nato and Cold War ally, and once a place where Americans were liked—is another result of the disastrous Iraq War.  The empty gesture of a Green Empire State Building will not change this disaster. Gringos might be fooled by hype, entertainment, and facade. Other people aren’t.

grumble grumble european civilzation, grumble grumble mutliculturalism grumble grumble some 18th century thinker

The twin towers of the World Trade Center were completed in 1972-73 and the Sears Tower completed in 1973.  If the Towers were the tallest buildings in the world, it was only for a matter of days.  Also, since NYC (the big spittoon) is no longer really a Christian city, maybe it’s appropriate that two-thirds of the holidays being celebrated in that erstwhile American city are non-Christian.  I don’t doubt that many New York Jews enjoy seeing Christianity reduced to minority status in Jerusalem West.

Fo Square,
“I don’t doubt that many New York Jews enjoy seeing
Christianity reduced to minority status in Jerusalem
West.”

That is true in only 2 cases;
1) amongst self-hating Jews who long for Islam’s
ascendancy. (Of course, the afflcition that drives
lighting up for Eid is shared by Christians too).
2) amongst those Jew unfortunate to have met and
mistakenly think you representative of Christians.

“The twin towers of the World Trade Center were completed in 1972-73 and the Sears Tower completed in 1973.  If the Towers were the tallest buildings in the world, it was only for a matter of days.”

They were, for just about a year.  What that has to do with what I wrote, I’m not sure.

It took me a few minutes to figure out why this bugs me.  It’s not the public acknowledgment of a Muslim holiday that’s so disturbing, although it might be more appropriate to black out the entire Empire State Building for Walpurgisnight in recognition of the Satanic activities that go on there.  But then that’s a clue to what’s so stupid and inappropriate about this:  isn’t it a kind of profanity to use a commercial building as a religious symbol?

It reminds me of the public outcry over the legend “In God We Trust” when it was first used on US coinage in 1864.  Most Americans don’t know it’s not a “fine old tradition”; it was first used on the Two-Cent-Piece in 1864, and at the time many Christians objected to profaning the name of God by putting it on money.  Eisenhower was the one who advocated putting it on ALL American coins and currency, as a meaningless symbol of America’s so-called “religiosity” in contrast to atheist Communism - but isn’t confusing God with economics exactly what the Marxists do?

I can imagine thoughtful Muslims actually being pissed off by this.

Most New Yorker’s just assumed the Green lights were
either to commemorate the New York Jet’s 5 loss of the NFL
season, or a signal that the Fed was going to cut
rates again.

Look, the US economy is founded on the “Petro-Dollar”, and we depend on an assortment of sheikdoms (Saudi Arabia, Dubai, UAE, Kuwait) to maintain it. In large part, that is our “strategic” interest in the Mideast.

So why not recognize such the religion of foreign governments, whose obedience and goodwill we depend?

In large part, the “multicultural” agenda is supported by the multi-national corporations---who are “American” in the sense they originated here, and their stock is traded on Wall Street---but you guys keep blaming the cultural Left for the problems.

As long as the Right has this conflict between it’s social conservatives and it’s libertarians who worship absolute private property and replacing democracy with the “free market”, it will remain a insignificant footnotein the 21rst Century.

Libertarians and neo-conservatives have more in common on social and economic issues then anyone cares to admit.

@Joe Populist:

“In large part, the ‘multicultural’ agenda is supported by the multi-national corporations---who are “American” in the sense they originated here, and their stock is traded on Wall Street---but you guys keep blaming the cultural Left for the problems.”

I don’t know who you’re reading, but it’s not me.  I’ve made that very point repeatedly on this website and in the pages of Chronicles.