This is a guest post by Nathan Roth, a New York lawyer writing under a pseudonym.

Despite the enormous attention given to the proposed Islamic Center at Ground Zero, I think an essential issue  -  perhaps the issue  - has been missed.  Many people object to the location not because they are bigots or Islamphobes, but because the decision to site it there is “insensitive.”  This is the word of the day, and has become the proxy for unexplained sentiments that cause people who otherwise embrace religious freedom and pluralism just to shake their heads when it comes to Imam Rauf’s project.

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