Let's go for a walk...
That's exactly how far the proposed Cordoba House Islamic Center site is from Ground Zero.
*Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is a practitioner of Sufism, and a vocal, long-standing critic of radical Islamic extremism.
*The area of Lower Manhattan where the World Trade Center would one day be built was developed in the 1880s by Ottoman Christians and Muslims and referred to as "Little Syria."
*Ground Zero is now a highly symbolic site: a cauterized national wound, if you will, that has been felt by the whole of America.
Deep breath.
Now then, can we discuss the issue intelligently?
