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The right thing? I don't know about that.
"Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said that while the Muslim community had the right to build the mosque, doing so near the site of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack would needlessly offend too many people.
THis is America... people have the right to be offensive.
"President Obama is wrong," King said. "It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim community to build a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero.
Insensitive and uncaring? Maybe... but perfectly legal. Prove otherwise.
"The right and moral thing for President Obama to have done was to urge Muslim leaders to respect the families of those who died and move their mosque away from Ground Zero."
You mean the government should've coerced a private citizen to sell his private property to benefit the collective good? SOCIALIST!
(I don't actually believe this, of course, but can't you just hear the neocons howling it had Obama's sentiments ran the other way?)
Newt Gingrich, a Republican and former House speaker, also condemned the president's comments.
Gingrich said the proposed mosque and community center would be a symbol of Muslim "triumphalism" and building it near the site of the 2001 attack "would be like putting a Nazi sign next to the Holocaust museum."
Newt Gingrich knows little and matters less.
Got Medieval: Professor Newt's Distorted History Lesson
"So it’s easy to see why a group of Muslims creating a community center in the heart of a majority Christian country in a city known for its large Jewish population might name it “The Cordoba House” They’re not, as Gingrich hopes we would believe, discreetly laughing at us because “Cordoba” is some double-secret Islamist code for “conquest”; rather, they’re hoping to associate themselves with a particular time in medieval history when the largest library in Western Europe was to be found in Cordoba, a city in which scholars of all three major Abrahamic religions were free to study side-by-side."
Of course America defends fundamental rights and this is important. But, are there not other factors involved here? Does this not question the motives of those who want this built? What about the funding for this mosque?
So provide some hard facts, not rumors and suspicions...
What's that, you say? Ain't gots none? Discussion over... fundamental rights win.
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