Atheists Vs The Mosque

by Patrick Appel

Sam Harris, whom I often enjoy, has an exceedingly wrong-headed article on the Cordoba project. He sees no legal reason to oppose the "ground zero mosque" but nevertheless feels it is a bad idea:

The claim that the events of September 11, 2001, had "nothing to do with Islam" is an abject and destabilizing lie. This murder of 3,000 innocents was viewed as a victory for the One True Faith by millions of Muslims throughout the world (even, idiotically, by those who think it was...