This makes no sense to me…

This is from the "Cordoba Initiative - Improving Muslim-West Relations" website…

"In response to the continued controversy over the proposed Islamic community center in New York City, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) will begin displaying an ad promoting religious freedom on the back of buses throughout the New York City transit system beginning September 20."

Why are these two organization spending money and time promoting religious freedom as a response to the controversy about the mosque in New York? When have they spent time and money promoting religious freedom regarding Christian actions? I know they've spent time and money trying to prevent Nativity scenes on government property, sounds reasonable to do that, (separation of church and state), but what's the motivation here? Are they concerned that the civil liberties of Muslims are threatened and thus they need to help them out? Are they as concerned with the building of a Heathen temple, Catholic church or Jewish synagogue in a Muslim country? Oh, wait, I forgot, that's actually illegal in most Muslim nations.

Here's the other thing that doesn't make sense to me…if the idea is to build bridges between the Muslim world and the Western world, why are they working so hard to annoy the living shit out of everyone? Other organizations have met with fewer outcries and changed their plans simply to avoid bad press and stay on good terms with the locals in which they want to build. In this case it's as if the Cordoba building is intended to anger non-Muslims. Which brings me to this beauty…"local and national American Muslim leaders today issued a call for "A Week of Dialogue" in October to combat bigotry and promote understanding and religious tolerance in civil society". In Muslim nations there is no effort to promote understanding or religious tolerance, you are either Muslim or a second class citizen, converting from Muslim to anything else is literally illegal, and may even get you killed. Talking about any other religion in a way that someone may consider an attempt to promote, (or worse, convert a Muslim) is illegal. That's not "understanding" and it's definitely not "tolerance"!

If they want to build bridges, let's build the mosque and a Catholic church the same size in Mecca.