Obviously, that’s a problematic construction and not one to take seriously. Still, while this Christian Science Monitor story labors under the heavy freight of that framework, it adds a note of basic maturity to the Park51 pseudocontroversy: Adults look at the manufactured outrage and ask: Seriously, America? This is what you’re reduced to? And then they say things like this:

“Senegalese go to America because in America, they can have their rights respected, and their freedom of movement to be entrepreneurs,” he says. “It’s not like in France, where you can be asked for your papers wherever you go.”

Husband that, America! It’s a national security asset. Don’t turn away from it because of an ignorant conflation between bin Ladenism and Islam. Meanwhile, here’s Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf in his own words.