(RNS) The most effective response America can give to the 9/11 terrorist attacks is to affirm our nation’s core values of freedom and liberty for all–including the religious tolerance, freedom, and equality that the perpetrators so vividly repudiated.
The debate surrounding a planned Muslim community center and mosque, known as Cordoba House, two blocks from ground zero has been plagued by fear, intolerance and politics, reshaping it into something ugly.
The religious community–including the Jewish community, which isn’t of one mind on the matter–has a special stake in putting forward this vision. READ MORE
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