Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney’s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News’ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on
The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of
Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and
Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses
Twitter.
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Not to dice words here but, those that are against this center going where it is proposed are not against religious freedom!! If it were strictly about religious freedom then it wouldn’t matter where the proposed site was, people would still be against it and then you would have a point. If this conflict was occuring in the middle of Iowa for instance, then you would have a point! The location, however, is the exact issue, not religious freedom! The proposed location is insensitive and completely inappropriate and everyone knows it whether they want to admit it or not; but then again, no one wants to damage their PC image now do they??? I wonder how people would feel if this were to be built on Ground Zero? I’m guessing that would piss off a ton more people (liberal lemmings included), so let’s not pretend that location doesn’t matter and that this is simply a “religious freedom” issue!!!
JS: The only way this is “insensitive” is if you’re unable to tell the difference between Islam and Al Qaeda. It reeks of the same sort of blindness that led to people thinking the people who bombed the WTC were from Iraq.
JS,
Check the news. This is a problem outside of New York City. A mosque in Tennessee was set on fire, and officials have already determined it was arson, and it’s only one of many similar incidents, especially if you factor in not just attacks on property, but the burning of Korans as well. You can blather all you want about how it’s just this one site that’s at issue–and perhaps you believe that’s really the case for you–but there’s a massive backlash against Muslims going on in this country right now, and you do yourself no favors by acting as though it’s not happening.
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