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The excellent Robert Wright, writing at the NYT web site today, demolishes a Weekly Standard story about the Manhattan Mosque. It's worth quoting at some length:

I'd have thought that opinion leaders of all ideological stripes could reach consensus by applying a basic rule of thumb: Just ask, "What would Osama bin Laden want?" and then do the opposite.

Bin Laden would love to be able to say that in America you can build a church or synagogue anywhere you want, but not a mosque. That fits...