Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty - Every Right to Exist Anywhere

Every Right to Exist Anywhere

Michael Kessler begins a column about the newest Muslim debate like this:

With all the loud clamoring about the proposed Islamic Center to be built near Ground Zero, reasonable voices are hard to discern. One thing is clear: this is not a debate about religious freedom. A mosque by peaceful Muslims of good will, unrelated to perpetrating the 9/11 attacks has every right to exist anywhere on these shores. It is the worst form of religious intolerance--and very un-American--to think that one form of religion has limits on where and when it may be practiced.

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