A Strange Place to Focus

by Conor Friedersdorf

Daniel Larison writes:

...what I find remarkable about this mosque controversy is how blatantly, narrowly political the opposition to this particular construction project has been. It has been an exercise in manipulating public anger and using it for the purpose of waging an ostensibly anti-Islamist political campaign by organizing against harmless Muslims and their organizations. A distinctive American culture isn't under threat from this mosque, the Cordoba Initiative...