[WAR] so let's talk about this mosque in New York

[Fifthfiend]

Link for general reference

To recap:

- Moderate muslims decide to build community center in New York, named for era of peace and tolerance among people of many faiths, hoping to promote such peace and tolerance

- Bigots decide that this building is too close to Ground Zero, because all muslims everywhere bear collective responsibility for the actions of terrorists, and also the World Trade Center was actually a consecrated church of Christianity. And also the community center is a mosque, and also they hate the name, because who even knows.

- Various cowardly and/or closeted-bigot politicians say that yes America totally does have religious freedom or whatever they guess, but muslims shouldn't build their community center anyway, because the important thing about religious freedom is that we should throw ours away in order to appease bigots.

- I headdesk over and over again

Actually there's one good thing about this story which is that it lays bare the stark anti-Muslim bigotry that's simmered beneath the surface of society for a long time underneath a condescending veneer of how we're bombing Muslim countries out of sincere concern for their freedom that previously only came out in weird, inexplicable ways like the whole "OBAMA IS A SECRET MUSLIM" thing.