Common Sense and Decency should Prevail

The debate over building a mosque and Islamic Center next to Ground Zero in New York really should not be as big a to-do as it is.

It is not a debate over freedom of religion or constitutional rights, it is simply a matter of decency and respect.  Columnist Charles Krauthammer writes one of the best articles on why building the mosque so close to revered, sacred ground is such a bad idea.

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.  (Krauthammer)

Read the rest of his article here:  http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/243668/sacrilege-ground-zero-charles-krauthammer

The opposition towards building the mosque has nothing to do with hatred or bigotry but rather it has to do with Americans’ responsibility to tend to and maintain our sacred grounds (Pearl Harbor, Gettysburg, Ground Zero) in order to honor well our fallen heroes’ sacrifice.