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Tolerance and the Ground Zero Mosque

BIGbelly Wrote: Aug 17, 2010 8:00 AM
Great column Joe, I keep saying it over and over these little skirmiches are not by accident, foot baths in Airports, sensitivity to Muslim children not to be taught the Holocaust, and the continued mention of Shariah Law being possibly incorporated into our Constitution and a host of other Islamic salvos in or diaspora is just the beginning. The Islamist will pass judgement on us and our values and it's tolerated, however anytime you comment on Islam and it's foibles or draw cartoons which are protected under our rights of Freedom Of Speech, or just eat Pork, all of a sudden you're disrespecting the Prophet and Shariah and that's when they invoke the Jihad thingy. You disagree with them you die, which is why I understand how all...

I am fascinated that the same people who have been able to find a Constitutional right to government control of education, healthcare, and the energy industry are unable to divine from that same document any rational basis for the government to prevent a mosque from being built on Ground Zero.

Of course, the issue is not whether the American Society for Muslim Advancement has a constitutional right to build a 13-story, mosque, and community center within 600 feet of Ground Zero. There are a number of things citizens have a right to do—things that the constitutional protection of speech protects—that...