You do not need to read any of his refusals to call it the Ground Zero mosque (even though the imam planning the thing calls it that) or his blame America first, middle, and last for its ignorance finger wagging. All you need to do is read his tenth point:
10. I wonder how many Americans realize the community center is not intended for Ground Zero. What will be constructed there includes a 55,000 square foot retail mall. This mall will be deep enough to connect with subway lines -- deep enough, that is, to theoretically be embedded in the ashes of some of the 9/11 victims.Two questions, Mr. Ebert:
1. If the Cordoba Mosque, so named to honor the Muslim conquest of Spain, ought not be called the Ground Zero mosque because it is no where near Ground Zero, how ca the ashes of 9/11 victims be mixed in with the proposed shopping mall beneath the mosque?
2. Why should American not be offended by Muslim mall shoppers walk on the ashes of 9/11 victims I light of the Muslim belief it is offensive to expose the soles of your feet to another person, much less trample on people’s mortal remains?
