re: #112 Obdicut

I know there’s a substantial Japanese population in Hawaii, so I have no there’s at least one Japanese cultural center there. What we’re talking about is building a Japanese cultural center at Pearl Harbor that would be dedicated on the tenth anniversary of the attack on that base.

Which, again, would probably have been really appropriate given that the second peace treaty was also signed in 1951 and we entered the new era of friendship with Japan.

I’m afraid I don’t see it that way. Israel and Germany have very good relations now, but that still wouldn’t make a German cultural center at Auschwitz sensitive or appropriate. Some other location, somewhere in Israel, sure. But not at the scene of the crime.

The attack was carried out by Muslims who claimed to be acting in the name of Islam, not in the name of Wahhabism.

Why do you want to ignore that they were Wahhabist?

I don’t - but all Wahhabis are Muslim; why do you want to suggest that because they were Wahhabis they weren’t Muslim? Not all Germans were Nazis, but it’s generally recognized that Germany as a whole bears responsibility for the crimes of the Nazi regime. I’m not suggesting that all Muslims are responsible for all acts of terror committed in their name, but trying to suggest why a mosque at Ground Zero is insensitive - and saying that the 9/11 were Wahhabis and the mosque isn’t seems to me to be splitting hairs
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