This We Will Defend: One Mosque, One Battle In the War of Ideas
Katherine Maximus Optimae, who hangs around here now and again, has authored a passionate defense of the Ground Zero Mosque, and sent it out to a lot of bloggers. Click the link and you can read it.
This was my response:
It is not unjust, bigoted, or anti-constitutional to suggest that building the mosque in that location is a bad idea, given the sensitivities.
It is not an example of enlightened belief in tolerance to either stand mute or to be openly supportive of building the mosque at that site.
It is the essence of our Republic that the issue be debateable. And vigorously so.
It is meet that the opponents use the rhetorical and legal tools available to them to try to persuade the relocation of or to prevent the building of the mosque.
It is meet that the proponents use the rhetorical and legal tools available to them to try to persuade people of their cause or defend their right to build the mosque.
Put me in the "they have the right to build it, if they can secure the necessary permissions, but they shouldn't build it there" camp. And they shouldn't get to build it just because they are Muslims.
Would that the Greek Orthodox Church, which pre-dated the fall of the towers and was destroyed in the fall of the towers, could get such support from the glitterati and their fellow travelers of the oh-so-nuanced set with such fine-tuned sensibilities..
Clearly, mileage varies.
But to repeat myself: It is the essence of our Republic that the issue be debateable. And vigorously so. Without threat of retaliation such as Speaker Pelosi has put forth. And with some heat, but without vitriol nor dismissive handwaves. From either side.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2010/08/continuing_the_17.html
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Aug 19 2010, 06:47 AM
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