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I've already weighed in on the positioning of the community centre.
My problem is that people who are opposing it are opposing it on the grounds that it's too Islamic. It's based on the assumption that Islam is essentially the cause behind 9/11.
Islam wasn't the cause behind 9/11 any more than America was. Americans should be opposing terrorism and hatred, not Islam.
How long is it going to be too sensitive to have an Islamic presence in the proximity of Ground Zero, and where do you draw the line? Should all Muslims stay away from Lower Manhattan out of respect for Islamophobes? What's the right thing to do?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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