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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (46280)11/30/2010 11:44:12 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
"Allow them to build their mosque as close to Ground Zero as Saudi Arabia allows a new church to be built to mecca. Make it a strict tit for tat.

I tend to agree in general terms that we should not restrict things like this. However to build their victory mosque in the shadow of their last major terror victory is completely insensitive.

In simple terms freedom is not free when governments tinker and meddle. However, this one is a special case and the muslim world is being disrespectful."

Which is why I don't want the US federal government tinkering and meddling in the mosque issue.

Tit for tat, isn't going to work in terms of getting the change you want from other countries. It will just drag us down to their level.

And yes the particular mosque in question is reasonably more controversial, but outlawing it alone, would not be a change for it alone, it would be a change in our general policy of religious freedom.

The people trying to build the mosque (if it is an intentional "victory mosque", rather than just a group who was exceptionally clueless about the PR of it, and then stubborn as a mule, when they found out) could be considered the scoundrels in the quote below.

Perhaps one should let them build it and then when it accidentally catches flame the FDNY could bring marshmallows instead of firetrucks.
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