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I think the whole point is trying to promote tolerance. I'm on the side of Fred. Not every Muslim wants to blow up a high rise, not every Christian wants to shoot abortion doctors, and not every Buddhist shaves their head and wears robes.
How can people possibly be offended by this? It's not like it's being funded by Al Qaeda. It's a great reminder that "Muslim" does NOT equal "terrorist," and sends a strong message that the United States continues to value its freedom of religion and does not recognize the radical extremists to be the ones who get to define the Islam faith for the world. Just like the radical and violent Christians don't get to define Christianity in the eyes of the world, either.
I worked in the WTC for 19 years, until "that day". My office was (and still is) full of people from many countries, almost every religion, and all races. My Muslim coworkers ran out of that building right alongside the rest of us. Muslims died there, too.
To deny one particular religion the right to have their house of worship in the neighborhood would go against everything the WTC was.
I think it's great. It emphasizes that the attack failed, it did nothing to compromise the foundations of what this country was built on.
Causing the creation of the "Patriot Act" did nothing to compromise the foundations of what this country was built on? Causing thousands of innocent men under US jurisdiction to be denied due process for a decade did nothing to compromise the foundations of what this country was built on?
The American people lost more rights and trusts since 9/11, than we would have lost if the Germans and Japanese had won WWII.
If you were not here in the 1950s, please do not make empty comparisons between the trust level among Americans then, and that which is exercised today as a direct result of a half-century of being whipped constantly by people who profit from fear. It sounds like you don't even remember the '90s.
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