Conservative Kathleen Parker on why the mosque must be built

[Bluebear]

As one Democrat after the other one runs to catch up and jump on the "no 'mosque'" bandwagon:

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...This is why plans for the mosque near Ground Zero should be allowed to proceed, if that's what these Muslims want. We teach tolerance by being tolerant. We can't insist that our freedom of speech allows us to draw cartoons or produce plays that Muslims find offensive and then demand that they be more sensitive to our feelings.

More to the point, the tolerance we urge the Muslim world to embrace as we exercise our right to free expression, and revel in the glory and the gift of irreverence, is the same we must embrace when Muslims seek to express themselves peacefully.

Nobody ever said freedom would be easy. We are challenged every day to reconcile what is allowable and what is acceptable. Compromise, though sometimes maddening, is part of the bargain. We let the Ku Klux Klan march, not because we agree with them but because they have a right to display their hideous ignorance.

Ultimately, when sensitivity becomes a cudgel against lawful expressions of speech or religious belief -- or disbelief -- we all lose.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/17/AR2010081704399_2.html?hpid=opinionsbox1&sid=ST2010081705461

[AnnieBW]

1. Egad... I agree with Kathleen Parker

Just shoot me now.

[Bluebear]

2. You could have knocked me over with a feather too.

But there it it lol.

[Warpy]

7. She's actually a stopped clock

and is right about things twice a day, much better than the smashed clocks the GOP usually puts out there, never right.

Conservatives who have read the constitution are right on this issue, why wouldn't they be?

I'm sad to say too many people on the left seemingly have not read it and have placed themselves firmly in the wrong, siding with the mob and against the country and its laws.

[VMI Dem]

3. They certainly have the right to build it. I won't comment on the wisdom of doing so.

[MadMaddie]

4. We really are in upside down world.

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. when Ted Olson, Kathleen Parker and Grover Norquest are on the side of reason and

tolerance and Harry Reid and Howard Dean are caving into a campaign based on lies, ignorance and bigotry - something is wrong with the universe.

[mmonk]

6. Yes, that was in our paper a few days ago or so.

[pinboy3niner]

8. This puts the cowardice of so many dems into even sharper relief

[Jumping John]

9. And the Westboro Baptist Church speak is hated but tolerated. Killing of Muslims would be

the result if Muslims practiced the same speak at funerals like the Westboro Church. But in our society and by our laws tolerance must be practiced.

[applegrove]

10. She knows it will help the war on terror if americans prove themselves

to be tolerant towards muslims on the whole.