Cordoba House
Talk about a tempest in a teapot. The vitriol over Cordoba House is one of the bigger ones. It has afforded the opportunity by some politicians to distract attention from their own corruption by raising a phony religious issue.
The builders of Cordoba House have the constitutional right to build it. I haven't seen anyone try to dispute that. The appeal is made to the builders' sense of decency, pandering the pain of the families of 9/11. The claim is that the presence of Cordoba House will reopen old wounds and cause further grief, because Muslims flew those planes into the Trade Center.
No, that isn't what opened the old wounds. Cordoba House would have been built with no objections. Nobody would have paid it any attention. The 9/11 families would have made no connection. The wounds were reopened by unscrupulous politicians and commentators, to distract public attention from their own corruption.
I wish the 9/11 families well, and hope they can finally work though their grief. But it is simply none their business what people who had nothing to do with the attacks, do with their real estate.
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson both spoke approvingly of the attack, calling it God's retribution for the Sin of the Month. To the extent one considers either of them Christian, 9/11 was much a Christian atrocity as a Muslim one.
The builders of Cordoba House have the constitutional right to build it. I haven't seen anyone try to dispute that. The appeal is made to the builders' sense of decency, pandering the pain of the families of 9/11. The claim is that the presence of Cordoba House will reopen old wounds and cause further grief, because Muslims flew those planes into the Trade Center.
No, that isn't what opened the old wounds. Cordoba House would have been built with no objections. Nobody would have paid it any attention. The 9/11 families would have made no connection. The wounds were reopened by unscrupulous politicians and commentators, to distract public attention from their own corruption.
I wish the 9/11 families well, and hope they can finally work though their grief. But it is simply none their business what people who had nothing to do with the attacks, do with their real estate.
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson both spoke approvingly of the attack, calling it God's retribution for the Sin of the Month. To the extent one considers either of them Christian, 9/11 was much a Christian atrocity as a Muslim one.