Do you think that Park 51 should be opened or stopped? [View All]

[MrScorpio]

This is one of those rare times that I'm going to say what my choice is right up front in one of my polls.

Park 51 should be opened. Muslim Americans have every right to open their community center wherever they wish, with the appropriate allowances for zoning, of course. Which is a right that has been affirmed in their own community.

That community center is no more an affront to "Ground Zero" than any of the other religious structures in lower Manhattan.

Muslim Americans did not attack this country on 9-11, Al Qaeda did, and Muslims Americans died side by side with Americans and non-Americans of other faiths. That's right, Muslim-Americans were victims too.

Frankly, the idea of scapegoating a minority, to run roughshod over their religious freedom, in order to satisfy the misguided fears and ugly feelings of bigots disgusts me.

They may do those kinds of things in other countries, but this is America.

Even in face of our fears, we should always stand for something better.