Terry Jones and the anti-Cordoba crowd are two sides of the same ugly coin
The Rev. Terry Jones (who, like his namesake from Monty Python's Flying Circus, is a clown) has everybody from the American Muslim community to the Federal government in an uproar over his plan to conduct a public Koran burning.
Look. If, as some maintain, the issue in the controversy over building an Islamic community center containing the immediate vicinity's second mosque in the same neighborhood as Ground Zero isn't about religious tolerance, but a "war of cultures" between Western Judeo-Christian civilization and Islamic civilization (a war we apparently can win by abandoning our own values in dealing with Muslims and adopting theirs), why is Pastor Jones's moronic book burning less appropriate than preventing Muslims from building a second mosque within a half-mile radius of Ground Zero merely because the people who flew the planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon happened to share their religion?
Rationalize as much as you like. They both are religious bigotry, plain and simple.
Look. If, as some maintain, the issue in the controversy over building an Islamic community center containing the immediate vicinity's second mosque in the same neighborhood as Ground Zero isn't about religious tolerance, but a "war of cultures" between Western Judeo-Christian civilization and Islamic civilization (a war we apparently can win by abandoning our own values in dealing with Muslims and adopting theirs), why is Pastor Jones's moronic book burning less appropriate than preventing Muslims from building a second mosque within a half-mile radius of Ground Zero merely because the people who flew the planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon happened to share their religion?
Rationalize as much as you like. They both are religious bigotry, plain and simple.
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