Christopher Hitchens on the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’

“Let us by all means make the ‘Ground Zero’ debate a test of tolerance. But this will be a one-way street unless it is to be a test of Muslim tolerance as well,” Hitchens says. The author recently diagnosed with cancer refers to European tolerance of the Muslim faith only to have religions demands put on its secular institutions. Hitchens also objects to the apparent ideology of the Iman meant to direct the ‘Gound Zero Moque’, Feisal Abdul Rauf: “I mentioned his sinister belief that the United States was partially responsible for the assault on the World Trade Center and his refusal to take a position on the racist Hamas dictatorship in Gaza.”