{"id":6641,"date":"2010-08-18T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6641"},"modified":"2011-01-05T15:23:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:23:27","slug":"ground-zero-mosque-debate-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/18\/ground-zero-mosque-debate-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ground-Zero mosque&#8221; debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6642\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/Cordoba-House-Park51-mosque-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cordoba House - Park51 mosque\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>President Obama says he has <a title=\"no regrets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20013989-503544.html\" target=\"_blank\">no regrets <\/a>about insisting that any religious group has the right to build a house of worship wherever it is legally approved, like the Islamic center planned for a\u00a0site two blocks from\u00a0where the World Trade Center towers\u00a0once stood.\u00a0 But conservative bloggers have been <a title=\"pushing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/08\/18\/AR2010081802582.html?sid=ST2010081802595\" target=\"_blank\">pushing<\/a> the so-called &#8220;Ground-Zero mosque&#8221; story as a political wedge between Obama and Congressional democrats around the country facing re-election battles.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of \u201c<em>Only in America?<\/em> <em>American Politics in Comparative Perspective,&#8221; <\/em>says it&#8217;s a classic case of public opinion swayed from Constitutional principles by xenophobic cries, these\u00a0hostile to all of Islam not just the radicals responsible for 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It would be great to see all the living ex-presidents issue a joint declaration that religious tolerance is core American value and that toleration includes Islam. \u00a0The American public needs to be reminded what the Constitution says, and both our friends and foes in the Islamic world need to hear us saying that loud and clear.\u00a0 Let\u2019s be clear: &#8216;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.&#8217;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact GrahamWilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama says he has no regrets about insisting that any religious group has the right to build a house of worship wherever it is legally approved, like the Islamic center planned for a\u00a0site two blocks from\u00a0where the World Trade Center towers\u00a0once stood.\u00a0 But conservative bloggers have been pushing the so-called &#8220;Ground-Zero mosque&#8221; story as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3502,3505,3501,3503,3504],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7554,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions\/7554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}