Legal? Yes. Sensitive? No.

Submitted by Vazir Mukhtar (United States), Aug 16, 2010 at 13:29

Re: Park 51. I am reminded of an exchange between Mammy and Scarlett in "Gone With the Wind." I cannot at this point remember what Scarlett has or has not done (the film was released in 1939, after all, though TCM screens it from time to time), but Mammy scolds Scarlett: "It ain't fittin'. It just ain't fittin'."

I won't cite Emily Post because too few will probably recognize the name. Some, however, may remember what Rabbi Hillel said, echoing a statement which was said earlier by a representative of another Abrahamic religion: "Do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you."

It would be interesting to know if the Q'uran, the third Abrahamic religion, contains a similar admonition.

We are no longer in an age when nobless oblige would apply, but in the case of Park 51 it wouldn't hurt if those legally entitled to build Cordoba House would emulate those to whom nobless oblige applied.

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