My take on this has largely been to try to mentally flip the circumstances. The one that comes to mind it maybe over blown but I use it because I have actually read about plots to attack the site.
If a group of Christian terrorists succeeded in blowing up the Dome of the Rock, killing lots of muslims in the process, how would it be viewed ten years later if a Christian organization wanted to build something large close to the sight.
My guess is there would be outrage from the muslim world and the same people who are calling the bigots "bigots" in NYC would think it was totally inappropriate for the Christians to build.
I don't think its that shocking that people are outraged. I am not particularly outraged, but neither am I outraged that people are outraged. My take is that 9/11 happened... but that its repercussions are largely the result of joint propaganda projects by muslim extremists, conservative western extremists, a US administration that had much to gain, and the mainstream muslim world that really hesitated to "fully" condemn the act for far to long to make their disapproval believable. So the project was successful on many fronts and people that condemn the response aught to point so something other than simple bigotry.
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If a group of Christian terrorists succeeded in blowing up the Dome of the Rock, killing lots of muslims in the process, how would it be viewed ten years later if a Christian organization wanted to build something large close to the sight.
My guess is there would be outrage from the muslim world and the same people who are calling the bigots "bigots" in NYC would think it was totally inappropriate for the Christians to build.
I don't think its that shocking that people are outraged. I am not particularly outraged, but neither am I outraged that people are outraged. My take is that 9/11 happened... but that its repercussions are largely the result of joint propaganda projects by muslim extremists, conservative western extremists, a US administration that had much to gain, and the mainstream muslim world that really hesitated to "fully" condemn the act for far to long to make their disapproval believable. So the project was successful on many fronts and people that condemn the response aught to point so something other than simple bigotry.