Quote from: maledoro on Sep 04, 2010, 10:10:45 PM
BLAIN thinks that since anti-Muslims are poo-pooing the building of a community center in an established Muslim neighborhood out of sight from Ground Zero that Muslims should better their image or build the center outside of the established Muslim neighborhood.
Well, then what should they do? Nothing? Then they have to live with the hate and potential violent backlash. Should the government intervene? They already have and it's had little to no effect. I mean, my
only concern with this is that, for whatever reason, it's as if they didn't think the backlash through. Then, when the backlash does happen, representatives from the Muslim community and corboda project (which is what this whole shindig is called) go on radio stations such as the BBC and call opposers islamophobics. Which, while true, certainly does nothing positive for them.
I think what they're doing is admirable, but they need to at least do
something to aid their image. Because it's only going to get worse, and nobody has yet to step in and succeeded in diswaying the haters.