A Good Wall (St) Makes Good Muslim Neighbors?

im a licensed NY City tour guide and know way too much about our history.  the Dutch were the first European settlers in lower Manhattan and they came here to make money, and it's been that way ever since. however they were advanced enough to "buy out" the Natives and not massacre them.

Wall st is so named because the Dutch  erected a wall there to keep out the British, or Natives, depending on your source. and so began the segregation way back then.


keep in mind the Europeans started settling at lower Manhattan and built their way up contuiing north, generally. so after the Dutch came the British and they fought.  the new Americans fought with the Brits (and now  im talking guns, prisoners, disease, not bigots with signs and/or politicians). everyone put down the blacks for a long time of course. later, the natives (now we're talking euro descendants) and at times the government  fought against the Irish, Jews, Italians, Asians. . the infamous 5 Points was pretty close to the future World trade center, and the Lower East Side close to that. "different" folks, "immigration problems", "security". sounds familiar im sure.





interesting though, that the Muslims have been there for a while now: the people, a mosque right down there before  the WTC.  Muslims were killed on Sept 11 itself.

and the Financial district went from people advanced enough to trade and not kill, to having  "greed is good" as their absolute,  to sociopaths severely damaging the economy of the entire world. not much movement to get them out of there either, besides Michael Moore  in a poorly reviewed film.

you see New York should maybe be called the city of the phoenix even more so than the western city. especially with an area like lower Manhattan. an area of horrible bigotry, violence, war, disease, poverty, that has risen up repeatedly through its history to give us a world leader in commerce, great architecture, at times great leadership, and of course great history.

and i hope that our city rises again in defiance of terrorists, bigots, extremists, ignorance, avarice, sociopathology. irregardless of who perpetuates such crimes against humanity: American, Muslim, rich, poor, extremist, politician, "average joe".