#1 - "Defeat Mosque Demagogues..."
by ERROL LOUIS
Well-meaning people like Gov. Paterson and Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, are wasting their time trying to cut a deal with the politicians and ideologues hellbent on blocking the creation of the proposed Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan.
Paterson offered to help find an alternate location for the Park51 cultural center - and even suggested giving state land for the project, which would almost certainly violate the First Amendment ban on using government resources to support or establish a particular religion.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/08/12/2010-08-12_defeat_mosque_demagogues_why_arent_they_bothered_by_the_nearby_stripclub.html?r=opinions&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nydnrss%2Fopinions+%28Opinions%29#ixzz0wVIzTGMX
#2 - "Build the Mosque Anywhere But Ground Zero..."
by CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of great nobility and sacrifice (Gettysburg), or by the blood of martyrs and the indescribable suffering of the innocent (Auschwitz).
When we speak of Ground Zero as hallowed ground, what we mean is that it belongs to those who suffered and died there - and that such ownership obliges us, the living, to preserve the dignity and memory of the place, never allowing it to be forgotten, trivialized or misappropriated.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/08/13/2010-08-13_build_it_anywhere_but_here.html?r=opinions&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nydnrss%2Fopinions+%28Opinions%29#ixzz0wVIs92WB
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