Neige,

For many, if not most Americans, building a mosque at the site of former Twin Towers is akin to building a McDonald's restaurant beside General Brock's (and Colonel Macdonell, though few know of him) on Queenston Heights.

Both are perceived as symbols of a foreign and vaguely dangerous threat. That either should be built where each country’s nationals were killed by attacks from “them” is, as has been previously pointed out, easily represented as a victory for the other side.

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Eudaimonia