What work? Defending the rights afforded by the constitution?
To be honest, I think it's a mistake to say the issue is the constitution protecting Muslims' rights, because it implies that people are right to want to have that position, the only issue is saying that the constitution is in the way, like the constitution has some mistake in it that we just have to go along with, but in a perfect world, the people against this are right not to want it and the constitution wouldn't allow it.
It's like saying 'well, the constitution protects Nazis to speak too, and we just have to let them speak to protect freedom of speech for all of us'.
It's implying the connection of Muslims to Al Queda has some validity, and these 'tainted' people have to get their rights even though they're 'unsavory'.
That's wrong. The constitution isn't protecting some 'bad people' from doing wrong.
As I explained at length, this is nothing but the wrong linking of the attacks to everyone Muslim - which is what the attackers wanted.
To be specific, the attackers wanted the reverse - they wanted to attack America so badly that for political reasons, America would have to invade a Muslim country, and they wanted the Muslim world to then move from their moderate and anti-Al Queda position, to one of uniting against the invader of a Muslim country and ally with Al Queda - but creating the animosity between the US and Muslims was just fine with them too.
The people - whether 9/11 families or not - who say it's not 'sensitive' of the Muslims need to understand that they are the wrongs 'tainting' innocent people.
I have no problem with expecting the Muslims to show 'sensitivity' based on other reasons - the same as any group. We wouldn't want McDonald's on the site would we?
But when they are singled out not for other types of sensitivity, but just 'you Muslims are somehow at fault for this attack, and so you are limited from building' that's wrong.
That is pandering to irrational linking and demonization of people that serves the agenda of Al Queda to create conflict between Muslims they want to recruit and the US.