“Vladimir Putin is a liar, a murderer and a man responsible for ordering the systematic torture, kidnapping and rape of innocent civilians" -- Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The mega-mosque at Ground Zero
If anyone doubted Americans' capacity for self-flagellation, the Good People of Tribeca wonderfully expanded the limits last night, when a community board voted to allow planning to proceed for a 15-story Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero. “What better place to teach tolerance," urged one of the residents, "than at the very area where hate tried to kill tolerance?” This seems to have things backwards: it is not lower Manhattan that needs to show tolerance, but the Islamists who did their best to destroy it. What next--a Shinto shrine at Pearl Harbor? A German cultural center at Auschwitz? Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
It /is/ quite tactless, but the implied comparison to Germany/Auschwitz is inappropriate & uneven.
ReplyDeleteI think you need to re-evaluate if those _terrorists_ were Islamists. I like the term "Extremists".
Power to peace!