Either you build the non-Mosque on the site two blocks away from where the Twin Towers stood, or you don't. There is no way to compromise. To sit and watch Howard Dean talk on Countdown for almost 20 minutes about how "reasonable people" can sit down and "compromise" is ridiculous. There is no in-between on this, either they get that site, or they don't. If they build it somewhere else, they aren't "compromising" they are "losing". Not every issue has a "middle".
I'm so tired of hearing "well we need to be considerate of the people who suffered during 9-11." I'm willing to bet most of them wouldn't even have KNOWN about it had people on the Right not started raising a stink about it. Legally they have every right to build there. Morally we should let them build there.
And what about the Muslims that died on 9-11? Do they not matter? Do their families not matter? Or do they matter, just less than the non-Muslims that died there.
The fact that this is even a debate and that being a Muslim is now a SMEAR is very disheartening.
There is no compromise here, someone wins and someone loses.
Sorry for the short ineloquent rant, just wanted to get that off of my chest.
Update [2010-8-19 21:53:11 by Muzikal203]: Video:
For a transcript click here to go to the video site, you can click to get a transcript. I'd post it here, but it'd be entirely too long as the segment was 18 minutes long.
Update [2010-8-20 6:20:31 by Muzikal203]: I saw people asking me to add things to the diary, I wasn't ignoring you, I was asleep. LOL. So here ya go.
I still remember when Colin Powell pulled this out on Meet the Press, and I had to Google it to get a better look. It's a very powerful picture. Should she have to compromise any more than she has for people's "emotional reaction"? Her son was only 20 when he died, not even old enough to drink in our country. And I'm sure he's not the only one who's made "the ultimate sacrifice" only to have his faith demonized to score political points.
h/t Adept2u
And go here to sign a petition in support of Religious Freedom here. h/t Sybil Liberty