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I meant to add this earlier:
So I spoke to my best friend specifically about this issue and the NYC Mosque. He's a Turk, whose father is Turkish millitary - so his view is going to be rather secular, if that makes any sense.
His take on this was basically: this guy is a troll. While he finds it disrespectful and against the golden rule, what's one going to do? He went on to say 1.5 billion people are muslim, and this guy takes the 1.5 percent of those people who are extremists and casts that cloud upon all 1.5B. He was going to take the high road and not cast this guy's cloud upon the rest of Christians.
As for the mosque, his take was "don't build it": He thought it was picking a fight, not building a bridge.
While he and I discuss religion and politics all the time, we rarely discuss religion in politics.
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