RahimKanani.com » The Not-at-Ground Zero Mosque Will Define U.S.-Muslim Relations for the Next Decade

In response to my original article condemning Gingrich, I received a very thoughtful and insightful email from one of my readers. She eloquently conveyed her personal connection to 9/11; for she herself was at the World Trade Center, and had witnessed the first plane explode. “I understand how raw that wound is for so many people,” she wrote. “And yet, I do not know how that wound can ever fully heal if we are determined to condemn an entire people for the acts of a few, and not commit to move forward to mutual understanding and reconciliation.” Such voices of pluralism and peace from those who were intimately affected are crucial to this discussion, for even a coalition formed by family members who lost loved ones on 9/11 wish to turn the tides of intolerance and misunderstanding, and are in full support of building this mosque and cultural center.

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