Thank you for posting that, Kat. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I signed it.

That certainly sums up the dynamics of the situation. I can't thimk of a better recruiting tool for al Quaeda than their being able to point at Americans' refusal to allow an Islamic cultural center to be opened. "See!?" says bin Laden, "That proves it!!"

The best thing we can do is to welcome the center, and for people to use and and try to find out what Islam is really all about.

What's important here, pdq, is not what anyone says about us, but what we actually do. Are we hypocrits? Or does the Constitution really mean something?

Don Firth