Regardless of the side you are on, one thing that shines through the “mosque” debate is that only in America can we have such a vast amount of peaceful verbal discussion about such a hot political and religious topic.
As Americans, we should be proud that we can have this open debate. In countries like Iran, any debate over such issues would end with a bullet in your head.
I firmly believe that there are good people on both sides of this argument. There are good and bad people who practice Islam and any other religion like Christianity or Judaism. You have to be a fool to paint a broad stroke that all Muslims are evil, and I don’t take myself as a fool.
What I find discussed most often is the issue of “religious freedom”, Muslims have the “right” to build where they see fit.
Of course they do; no one is denying that. President Barack Obama, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other politicians on both sides agree that they have constitutional rights to build where they see fit.
It seems to me that the supporters are only surrounding themselves with this phony Constitutional war. If it was a legitimate war, the courts would be the ones to decide and they would unanimously say that it is not illegal to build the Islamic center at Park 51, formerly named Cordoba House.
For the supporters, the issue stops there. Those who oppose building Cordoba House are told by the politically correct that they are intolerant, hateful, Islamophobic and bigoted.
This response from the supporters is an unconvincing, counterfeit response to legitimate questions. The proponents refuse to answer the bigger question of propriety that the opponents have brought to the discussion.
Our moral superiors are telling us to be more tolerant and more sensitive to the feelings of Muslims. But don’t you think it should go both ways? How about Muslims try to be more sensitive to the feelings of millions of Americans?
Do Muslims want to be a part of American Society or do they only want to show how much they can get away with by exploiting America and its Constitution?
Donald Trump addressed the issue recently on the Late Show with David Letterman saying that the builders of Cordoba House would create a lot of goodwill if they decided to pick a site that is a little further away.
“From a PR standpoint,” Trump told Letterman, “It would be the greatest thing they could do.”
