[Sethomas]

I don't have strong feelings either way about the Cordoba Initiative putting a community center there. My impression so far has been that it's not really a mosque in any conventional sense of the word, and at any rate the characterization of the project by its detractors has been deliberately disingenuous. Is it a good idea in its own right? I can see things both ways, I guess.

In relation to the other post, I like to look at various multicultural urban centers in the medieval world as solid disproof of a lot of modern discussion's belief in an incompatibility of civilizations. Cordoba is certainly an interesting example that endured until it was shattered by the Christian King Ferdinand during the Reconquista, just as the first century of the Kingdom of Jerusalem was one that was broken by Saladin's jihad.

As for Sarah Palin, since I met Bill Ayers while living in his neighborhood I suppose she would classify me as someone who pals around with terrorists. Oops.