Hey PaulK.
Should we then start to demand the removal of Churches close to the sites of atrocities carried out by anyone who was even nominally a Christian ?
Yes, therefore
every Christian church erected in this country exists as a blatant double standard to those who would deny the construction of this mosque. If not for the subjugation, interment and outright forced conversion of the Native American people during the times of the Western Frontier, we may have had somewhat of a point. As it is, this black eye alone should serve as a reminder of our moral hypocrisy when any question of religious intolerance comes up. And that's just in our country. What about Central and South American cultures, or the indigenous peoples of New Zealand and Australia?
As an American, the WTC atrocity is like a mostly-healed scar that still aches once in a while. I'm not so closed-minded that I associate all of Islam with these extremists, but I do understand there are those who are closer to all this who have no choice but to never forgive. I'm not sure what the builders of this mosque hope to gain besides broken windows (do they have windows?) and endless graffiti. But I do think that if they own the property and that if all zoning regulations are adhered to, the government has no business getting its fingers into anything. Except for the resulting violence, of course...
Obama made the right decision.
Have a good one.
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