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Ross Douthat: Islam in two Americas

By Alliance Alert

Ross Douthat writing in The New York Times:"There?s an America where it doesn?t matter what language you speak, what god you worship, or how deep your New World roots run . . . But there?s another America as well, one that understands itself as a distinctive culture, rather than just a set of political propositions . . . The first America is correct to insist on Muslims? absolute right to build and worship where they wish. But the second America is right to press for something more from Muslim Americans ? particularly from figures like Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind the mosque ? than simple protestations of good faith."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 17, 2010 (boomark / email).