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Juan Williams gets it right on the Ground Zero mosque.

And it's easy to get this one right, I think:

During Fox News Sunday's online "Panel Plus" segment, Juan Williams made the case against building the 13-story Islamic center a couple blocks from Ground Zero. Although the imam who owns the land has a right to do what he wants with his own property, Williams said, as a matter of decency the imam shouldn't build the mosque.

Williams said that the proposed mosque and the imam's actions are "a thumb in the eye to so many people who lost their lives and went through the trauma there. It's not promoting dialogue or understanding. In fact, it's polarizing. So it's not achieving his stated goal. And for that reason, I just think he's wrong to do it."

It's unfortunate that so many people confuse the right to do something ? which I presume here ? and whether it's a good idea to do it. Many ? perhaps most ? of the bad things people do are not illegal. You can say someone has a legal right to do something ? and even enthusiastically support that right ? and still tell them that what they are doing is horribly wrong.

(Note: That's what I would say about abortion, too.)

Full post as published by Althouse on August 02, 2010 (boomark / email).