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We must listen to our neighbors.

His return from a trip abroad furthers the confusion over the purpose and rationale for the project.

Terry Jones had told media he secured a deal.

The Week in Religion, Poetically.

What happened to promises of interfaith dialogue and ending discrimination?

Are we playing right into al Qaeda’s hands?

Alright evangelical and/or fundamentalist pundits* opposed to the Ground Zero mosque, whom art thou? Are thee the faithful praying/hoping/waiting for the imminent return of Christ or are thee like the believers in Ephesus who forsook their first love in the name of zealotry (Revelation…

His opponents are playing Six Degrees of Bin Laden, Sherroding, smearcasting, and other ugly games.

That the kindergarten logic of “hear no evil, see no evil” is being used in order to sway public opinion in favor of the Center, but while the success of these maneuvers remains to be seen, its damage is immediately apparent: if Park51 ‘sounds’ nothing like mosque, claims to ‘be’ nothing like a mosque, and, ‘looks’ nothing like a mosque, then, and only then, does it emerge a defensible endeavor within the United States.

Lurking behind suspicion about the new Islamic Center planned to be built near Ground Zero is something much more ominous than would appear.