A Scene in Corporate America
Breakroom at work yesterday afternoon. Fox News on the plasma screen television. Talking head on Fox News bloviating about the Ground Zero Mosque.
Colleague: I don't see why they can't just move it somewhere else.
Me: Before I would say that there should be no mosque in lower Manhattan, I'd have to accept that all of Islam and every Muslim was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. I'd also have to be convinced that opponents of the mosque were not just political opportunists trying to exploit the rabble.
Colleague: Yeah, why can't they just move it?
Me: :S
Colleague: I don't see why they can't just move it somewhere else.
Me: Before I would say that there should be no mosque in lower Manhattan, I'd have to accept that all of Islam and every Muslim was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. I'd also have to be convinced that opponents of the mosque were not just political opportunists trying to exploit the rabble.
Colleague: Yeah, why can't they just move it?
Me: :S
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