As Robert Mackey points out in "The Lede," a New York Times blog, the furor over the Park511 mosque only reinforces the behavior that coservatives deplore among Muslims. While Deroy Murdock and others would like to say that American behavior has nothing to do with the crimes of terrorists, it's clear that people everywhere are acutely aware of American hypocrisy when it arises.
Conservative Americans can not demand that US and state governments conform to their Christian practices while at the same time excoriating Muslims for wishing the same. They can not distinguish between freedom-loving and democracy-promoting America on one hand and repressive religionist terrorists on the other if the Americans do all the oppressing. (Or rather, that can -- and do -- do all this, but it comes with a cost.
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