You. Don't. Get. It. Goshin.
9/11 was committed by bad people who happened to be extremist Muslim.
Many Muslims are not extremist, and did not condone the horrible act that happened on that bleak day in September.
Focus on the "bad" part, and not the "Muslim" part.
It is my opinion that you are the one who doesn't get it.
If 9/11 had been committed by a group of people who were, oh I dunno pick some cause out of a hat, let's say PETA in retaliation for commercial meat farming just to be silly... and it
just so happened that they were all Muslim...that would be different.
9/11 was not just committed
by Muslims, it was committed
in the name of Islamic jihad. The next day we saw video of (some) Muslims around the world dancing and celebrating this act. Condemnation of 9/11 by Islamic religious figures was slow and scant, and remains scant.
Does this mean that Joe Avg Muslim was happy about 9/11 and supported it? Possibly not, but Joe Muslim did not cry out against it in large numbers. Possibly because Joe Muslim was afraid of what the Imams and extremists would do to him if he did.... which ought to tell you something right there.
As I've said, I don't blame all Muslims for 9/11. However, I have been and remain disappointed that condemnation of such terrorism by Islamic religious authorities is and has remained relatively scarce. A
few brave Imams have spoken out against terrorism, and I applaud them... but the majority have either expressed support or remained silent.
I have no plans to march in protest against the WTC-site mosque, or to write NYC and beg them to withdraw their permit; I don't see it as that huge of a thing. I just think it isn't such a hot idea.
If they put a big stone slab memorial out front, on which is etched the words "WE the people of this Islamic Mosque, hereby condemn the atrocity that was committed on 9/11 and express our sympathy for the victims and their families, and our solidarity as Americans against terrorism," and a couple dozen Imams associated with the mosque have their names engraved beneath, committing themselves to that statement, then I might feel differently.