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Monday, August 23, 2010

If Park51 is in fact just a community center...

...then doesn't that by extension mean that it isn't covered by the right to freedom of religion? I mean, there is no human right for freedom to build community centers.

I've seen far too many people who are arguing both sides against the middle that it is not a mosque but that if you oppose the building of Park 51 it means you're a bigot. However, if one side of the equation is right, then the other doesn't apply does it?

Either it is a mosque or it isn't. If it isn't, then there's no problem! We can even have the government step in, stop it from being built and nobody's human right of freedom of religion will have been stepped upon.

We all know that this is as duplicitous an argument as one can come up with. You can't simultaneously argue that it isn't a mosque and that denying it from being built is suppressing that right of people to practice their religion.

And to those who think that opposition to the mosque is a sign of bigotry and an attempt to suppress Islam, if you think that offering free land at another location is an attempt to suppress Islam... well... I see ignoring facts and reporting whatever you want to fit your narrative is actually quite the fad these days.

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