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Pamela Geller and the Bloggers of Hate

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foobear210/14/2010 3:58:57 pm PDT

re: #177 Decatur Deb

Do you think the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, with its Crusader associations, should be adjacent to Har Habayit?

A fair point. While the Crusades were, at least in part, a response to the Muslim conquest of the Holy Land, the Crusaders did not pay any particular respect to the Jews. In that way, the proximity of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Temple Mount could well be viewed as giving offense. At the same time, Jerusalem is replete with places sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

I’m not aware of any particular justification for the siting of Park51, aside from the completely valid claim that the organizers have the legal right to build there.