Nick Kristoff, award winning jounalist from the New York Times has writtn a brilliant article on the proposed “Near Ground Zero Mosque”. The article an be found here – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/opinion/22kristof.html?_r=1#
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A walk from the northern border of the WTC site to 45-51 Park Place, proposed site of the “Cordoba House”/”Park51″ community center, aka the “Ground Zero Mosque.” GET OVER IT PEOPLE… They want to build a Mosque downtown a few blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center towers. Seems many folks are in a tizzy. Well, here’s my two cents. 1 – One of the core values of our founding fathers was freedom of religion. If you’re going to live by that code, than you [...] I’ve said quite a bit about my agnosticism in regard to religion or the supernatural. I’ve pointed out what I believe is irrefutable evidence that, throughout history, organized religion has been responsible for some of the largest offenses to humanity . Yet, on a personal level I have seen many examples where religion has helped people. [...] Kristin loaded the DVD, which arrived from Netflix after much anxious anticipation… An intelligent and satirical look at fundamentalist religion… A focus on the politics of religion… What could be better? Since this is MY blog – and I reserve the right to say whatever I want – I’ll tell you, briefly, what my own feelings [...] What would you do if you lived in a geographic area somewhere, and one day an influx of people from some particular ideological, religious, or political group began to move in? Maybe you don’t like them too much. Maybe they don’t like you too much. Maybe you’d fought for many hundreds of years – maybe [...] I’m not feeling that great about being an American this Fourth. I haven’t felt great about it for a long time. You know I love this country—and if the Canadians ever decide to invade Montana I’ll be the first one to bear arms. It is a beautiful country. Many people have found opportunity here and built fortunes. [...] |
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