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08/16/10 11:26 - 76.ºF - ID#52457
Conservative values and the Mosque
First, I'm not sure you can call it a Mosque, or say that it is located "at" ground zero. But lets lay that aside for a second. Here are some things that conservatives traditionally value, that would seem to say, "let them do it."
1. Religious freedom.
2. The rights of property owners.
3. Decision making on the local level.
Many of the people who are fighting against this also fight for religious displays on public property, no matter how "insensitive" their opponents tell them it is.
I can imagine a US church attempting to buy and build a place for worship in Baghdad, and local lraquis protesting that they should not. What do you think the pundits would say about that? Likely, we would assert that anybody can build any church, anywhere, if they pay for it.
If the anti-mosque folks win this debate, they will likely come to regret it when Christians are in the minority (likely, soon) and the same arguments they've made are used against them.
You treat people the way you want to be treated, regardless of how they treat you.
1. Religious freedom.
2. The rights of property owners.
3. Decision making on the local level.
Many of the people who are fighting against this also fight for religious displays on public property, no matter how "insensitive" their opponents tell them it is.
I can imagine a US church attempting to buy and build a place for worship in Baghdad, and local lraquis protesting that they should not. What do you think the pundits would say about that? Likely, we would assert that anybody can build any church, anywhere, if they pay for it.
If the anti-mosque folks win this debate, they will likely come to regret it when Christians are in the minority (likely, soon) and the same arguments they've made are used against them.
You treat people the way you want to be treated, regardless of how they treat you.
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For so long under both the Bush and Obama administrations it was an official talking point that America wanted to work with moderate Muslims on improving our relationship with them. Then, when moderate American Muslims want to build their version of a JCC or YMCA suddenly we toss that out and elements of both the left and right are dead set against it.
We would do well to remember that the first foreign leader to officially recognize the existence of the United States was the Sultan of Morocco. Or, to borrow a line from the Treaty of Tripolli:
" As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen..."
It is one of the defining documents of American secularism. But, trash it and send 'em towel heads back to Mexico... or whatever.