Kathleen Parker on why the mosque must be built-She's a conservative, and she's making sense.

[kpete]

Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Kathleen Parker on why the mosque must be built
by John Aravosis (DC) on 8/18/2010 09:20:00 PM
She's a conservative, and she's making sense.

This is why plans for the mosque near Ground Zero should be allowed to proceed, if that's what these Muslims want. We teach tolerance by being tolerant. We can't insist that our freedom of speech allows us to draw cartoons or produce plays that Muslims find offensive and then demand that they be more sensitive to our feelings.

More to the point, the tolerance we urge the Muslim world to embrace as we exercise our right to free expression, and revel in the glory and the gift of irreverence, is the same we must embrace when Muslims seek to express themselves peacefully.

Nobody ever said freedom would be easy. We are challenged every day to reconcile what is allowable and what is acceptable. Compromise, though sometimes maddening, is part of the bargain. We let the Ku Klux Klan march, not because we agree with them but because they have a right to display their hideous ignorance.

Ultimately, when sensitivity becomes a cudgel against lawful expressions of speech or religious belief -- or disbelief -- we all lose.

more:
http://www.americablog.com/2010/08/kathleen-parker-on-why-mosque-must-be.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/17/AR2010081704399_2.html?hpid=opinionsbox1&sid=ST2010081705461

[elocs]

1. I read that in my paper and thought so too. Unfortunately other freepers will diss her. n/t

[Jennicut]

2. Freedom of speech, freedom to practice religion. I never

thought I would see some Dems more cowardly then a few conservatives on this. Granted, these are conservatives who are actually conservative and not just fear mongers. We tell Muslims to be tolerant of us and then give a big finger to them at the same time. Screwed up America.

[JerseygirlCT]

4. +1 nt

[annabanana]

3. A Conservative with brains...

"Nobody ever said freedom would be easy. We are challenged every day to reconcile what is allowable and what is acceptable. Compromise, though sometimes maddening, is part of the bargain."

Prediction: She will be left twisting in the wind. .

[Jackpine Radical]

6. She's right this time.

One of maybe 3 times I've ever agreed with anything she has written. I don't remember the other times.

[niyad]

5. parker is making sense? has hell frozen over?