I suppose this guy would be called racist wouldn't he? Even though he is DEAD ON.

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I'm afraid your analogy fails miserably. In your hypothetical you didn't state whether the white person who did the killing did so in the name of "white people." The people who perpetrated 9/11 were not just Muslims; they did what they did in the name of Islam. These were not just people who happened to be Muslims; their religion was central to the act they committed, and was understood as such by the world at large. That doesn't make all Muslims responsible for the act, but it links the religion to the killings in a way that makes the symbolism of building a mosque at ground zero very offensive. I don't agree with all the speaker's generalizations about Muslims. However, I do agree that building a Mosque there is insenstive and inappropriate.

- wolf

I absolutely, positively *would* be against building a Christian church where an abortion doc was killed. I am against building Christian churches on the site of Christian slaughters of non-Christians or committed in the name of Christianity. The symbolism of it is offensive to the victims. What that has to do with bigotry or the First Amendment is beyond me. The First Amendment has nothing to do with where you can construct buildings.

- wolf

Good posts man, I'm pretty much in line with you. I'm not sure I'd say they can't build a Mosque there, but it is insensitive and inappropriate for them to do so. It really shows the true color of the people who are pushing for this mosque to be built also.