First US Interview with Aga Khan

Unfortunately, I think the title is misleading. At least the author says he knows nothing about Park51. Most of us don’t, and that’s why I am ambivalent. However, it is a good discussion about the need for religious freedom. The Faith Divide: An evangelical supports mosque near Ground Zero – On Faith at washingtonpost.com. You might think I’m a liberal or mainline Christian. Not at all. I’m an Evangelical, a conservative Evangelical at that, and an Evangelistic Evangelical to top it all off – that means I tell everyone I can in a polite way about Jesus. I believe Jesus…

my final word on Park51 – City of Brass. When you combine the emotional impact of 9-11, the undercurrent of prejudice against Islam borne of fear of the unknown/centuries of Orientalism marking it as the quintessential Other, and then layer onto that the background signal of racial intolerance that is America’s original sin and persists to this day, then you are basically confronted with a pretty skewed playing field, against which the idealized rhetoric of universal rights and freedoms has a disadvantage. It’s to the credit of our national character however that we are actually having a debate. That suggests…