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Letting the terrorists win

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Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson on the “Ground Zero mosque”: How precisely is our cause served by treating the construction of a non-radical mosque in Lower Manhattan as the functional equivalent of defiling a grave? It assumes a civilizational conflict instead of defusing it. Symbolism is indeed important in the war against terrorism. But a mosque that rejects radicalism is not… Read more »