Hendrik Hertzberg explains, perhaps a touch too surgically, why one is not justified in comparing the current Park 51 controversy with a previous controversy regarding a Catholic church in the perimeter of Auschwitz.
Cordoba and the Carmelites
Even if the comparisons are justified, Hertzberg points out that both controversies can falsely lead us to label several unique individuals as abstractions of the same identity. He says quote "That slope of that kind of thinking is, to put it mildly, slippery." unquote.
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